The CData ODBC Driver for Blackbaud Financial Edge NXT models Blackbaud Financial Edge NXT objects as relational views. A Blackbaud Financial Edge NXT object has relationships to other objects; in the views, these relationships are expressed through foreign keys. The following sections show the available API objects and provide more information on executing SQL to Blackbaud Financial Edge NXT APIs.

Schemas for most database objects are defined in simple, text-based configuration files. For the views that may have custom fields, the columns are being listed dynamically. When the authenticated user changes custom fields for some objects, they will be reflected in the respective views.