Connecting to Azure DevOps

Establishing a Connection shows how to authenticate to Azure DevOps and configure any necessary connection properties. You can create a connection profile by clicking Get Data and selecting From Azure DevOps on the CData ribbon.

Advanced Configurations

You can also configure add-in capabilities through the available Connection properties, from data modeling to firewall traversal. The Advanced Settings section shows how to set up more advanced add-in configurations and troubleshoot connection errors.

Configuring a Connection Profile

You can configure access control in a connection profile by defining the operations allowed against Azure DevOps data and store the profile in the workbook to make the workbook easy to share. See Managing Connections for more configuration options for connection profiles.

Connecting from Excel

The add-in adds controls to the Excel ribbon, standard Excel formulas, and VBA classes for writing macros.

Azure DevOps Version Support

The add-in leverages the Azure DevOps API to read data from Azure DevOps.

See Also

• See Using the Excel Add-In to work with Azure DevOps data from the CData ribbon.
• By Writing Parameterized Queries in the From Azure DevOps dialog, you can easily create a dynamic spreadsheet based on an underlying SQL SELECT query. Cell values provide the query's input parameters.
• Use the CData Excel Functions to execute multiple queries from the same sheet or to use cells and ranges to manipulate Azure DevOps data.
• See Using the Excel Add-In (VBA) to write macros that can automate any of the capabilities available on the ribbon.