Connecting to Adobe Experience Manager

Establishing a Connection shows how to authenticate to Adobe Experience Manager and configure any necessary connection properties. You can create a connection profile by clicking Get Data and selecting From Adobe Experience Manager 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 Adobe Experience Manager 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.

Adobe Experience Manager Version Support

The add-in connects to Adobe Experience Manager (AEM) instances that expose the JCR repository over WebDAV. It supports both on-premises AEM and AEM as a Cloud Service deployments.

See Also

• See Using the Excel Add-In to work with Adobe Experience Manager data from the CData ribbon.
• By Writing Parameterized Queries in the From Adobe Experience Manager 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 Adobe Experience Manager data.
• See Using the Excel Add-In (VBA) to write macros that can automate any of the capabilities available on the ribbon.