Establishing a Connection
Enabling SSIS in Visual Studio 2022
If you're using Visual Studio 2022, you will need to install the SQL Server Integration Services Projects extension to use SSIS.
- Navigate to Extensions > Manage Extensions.
- In the Manage Extensions window's search box, search for "SQL Server Integration Services Projects 2022" and select the extension in the list.
- Click Download.
- Close Visual Studio and run the downloaded Microsoft.DataTools.IntegrationServices.exe installer. Proceed through the installer with default settings.
- Open Visual Studio. There should now be an "Integration Services Project" project template available.
Adding the Vault CRM Connection Manager
Create a new connection manager as follows:
- Create a Visual Studio project with the "Integration Services Project" template.
- In the project, right-click within the Connection Managers window and select New Connection from the menu.
- In the Description column, select CData Vault CRM Connection Manager and click Add...
- Configure the component as described in the next section.
Alternatively, if you have an existing project and CData Vault CRM Source or CData Vault CRM Destination:
- Right-click your CData Vault CRM source or destination component in your data flow
- Select Edit... to open an editor window.
- Click the New... button next to the Connection manager: dropdown selector to create a connection manager.
- Configure the component as described in the next section.
Connecting to Vault CRM
In order to connect to your Vault CRM account, you first need to set the URL connection property to the host you see in the address bar after logging in to your account.
For example: https://myvault.veevavault.com.
Authenticating to Vault CRM
The component supports the following authentication methods:
- Vault CRM user credentials
- OpenID Connect with the Azure AD Authentication Provider
- Okta SSO
User Credentials
Set the AuthScheme to Basic and set the User and Password to your user login credentials.
OpenID with Microsoft Entra ID (Azure AD)
Note: Microsoft has rebranded Azure AD as Entra ID. In topics that require the user to interact with the Entra ID Admin site, we use the same names Microsoft does. However, there are still CData connection properties whose names or values reference "Azure AD".
OpenID Connect with Entra ID (Azure AD) is a connection type that goes through OAuth.
Desktop Applications
Follow the steps below to authenticate with the credentials for a custom OAuth application. See Creating an Entra ID (Azure AD) Application.
Get an OAuth Access Token
You are ready to connect after setting one of the groups of connection properties below:
- Authenticating using a Client Secret
- OAuthClientId: Set this to the Client Id in your application settings.
- OAuthClientSecret: Set this to the Client Secret in your application settings.
- CallbackURL: Set this to the Redirect URL in your application settings.
- InitiateOAuth: Set this to GETANDREFRESH. You can use InitiateOAuth to avoid repeating the OAuth exchange and manually setting the OAuthAccessToken. .
- Optionally, depending on the required claims to complete the authentication with the Vault CRM data source, you may need to set additional scopes via the Scope property. For example, to get the user name and email claims from the UserInfo endpoint, you will need to set the scope value to: 'openid profile email offline_access'.
- Authenticating using a Certificate
- OAuthClientId: Set this to the Client Id in your application settings.
- OAuthJWTCert: Set this to the JWT Certificate store.
- OAuthJWTCertType: Set this to the type of the certificate store specified by OAuthJWTCert.
- CallbackURL: Set this to the Redirect URL in your application settings.
- InitiateOAuth: Set this to GETANDREFRESH. You can use InitiateOAuth to avoid repeating the OAuth exchange and manually setting the OAuthAccessToken. .
- Optionally, depending on the required claims to complete the authentication with the Vault CRM data source, you may need to set additional scopes via the Scope property. For example, to get the user name and email claims from the UserInfo endpoint, you will need to set the scope value to: 'openid profile email offline_access'.
When you connect, the component opens the OAuth endpoint in your default browser. Log in and grant permissions to the application. The component then completes the OAuth process:
- Extracts the access token from the callback URL and authenticates requests.
- Obtains a new access token when the old one expires.
- Saves OAuth values in OAuthSettingsLocation to be persisted across connections.
Headless Machines
To configure the driver to use OAuth with a user account on a headless machine, you need to authenticate on another device that has an internet browser.
- Choose one of these two options:
- Option 1: Obtain the OAuthVerifier value as described in "Obtain and Exchange a Verifier Code" below.
- Option 2: Install the component on another machine and transfer the OAuth authentication values after you authenticate through the usual browser-based flow, as described in "Transfer OAuth Settings" below.
- Then configure the component to automatically refresh the access token from the headless machine.
Option 1: Obtain and Exchange a Verifier Code
To obtain a verifier code, you must authenticate at the OAuth authorization URL.
Follow the steps below to authenticate from the machine with an internet browser and obtain the OAuthVerifier connection property.
- Choose one of these options:
- If you are using the Embedded OAuth Application click Vault CRM OAuth endpoint to open the endpoint in your browser.
- If you are using a custom OAuth application, create the Authorization URL by setting the following properties:
- InitiateOAuth: Set to OFF.
- OAuthClientId: Set to the client Id assigned when you registered your application.
- OAuthClientSecret: Set to the client secret assigned when you registered your application.
- Log in and grant permissions to the component. You are then redirected to the callback URL, which contains the verifier code.
- Save the value of the verifier code. Later you will set this in the OAuthVerifier connection property.
On the headless machine, set the following connection properties to obtain the OAuth authentication values:
- InitiateOAuth: Set this to REFRESH.
- OAuthVerifier: Set this to the verifier code.
- OAuthClientId: (custom applications only) Set this to the client Id in your custom OAuth application settings.
- OAuthClientSecret: (custom applications only) Set this to the client secret in the custom OAuth application settings.
- OAuthSettingsLocation: Set this to the location of the file where the driver saves the OAuth token values that persist across connections.
After the OAuth settings file is generated, you need to re-set the following properties to connect:
- InitiateOAuth: Set this to REFRESH.
- OAuthClientId: (custom applications only) Set this to the client Id assigned when you registered your application.
- OAuthClientSecret: (custom applications only) Set this to the client secret assigned when you registered your application.
- OAuthSettingsLocation: Set this to the location containing the encrypted OAuth authentication values. Make sure this location grants read and write permissions to the component to enable the automatic refreshing of the access token.
Option 2: Transfer OAuth Settings
Prior to connecting on a headless machine, you need to create and install a connection with the driver on a device that supports an internet browser. Set the connection properties as described in "Desktop Applications" above.
After completing the instructions in "Desktop Applications", the resulting authentication values are encrypted and written to the location specified by OAuthSettingsLocation. The default filename is OAuthSettings.txt.
Once you have successfully tested the connection, copy the OAuth settings file to your headless machine.
On the headless machine, set the following connection properties to connect to data:
- InitiateOAuth: Set this to REFRESH.
- OAuthClientId: (custom applications only) Set this to the client Id assigned when you registered your application.
- OAuthClientSecret: (custom applications only) Set this to the client secret assigned when you registered your application.
- OAuthSettingsLocation: Set this to the location of your OAuth settings file. Make sure this location gives read and write permissions to the component to enable the automatic refreshing of the access token.
Okta
The component supports the Okta SAML 2.0 flow. Before you can authenticate via Okta SSO, you must configure your Vault CRM and Okta instances as described in Vault CRM's Okta SSO guide.
After following those steps, set the following to connect:
- AuthScheme: OKTA
- User: the username of the Okta account to use for Okta SSO.
- Password: the password of the Okta account to use for Okta SSO.
- SSOLoginURL: the "Identify Provider Login URL" associated with your Vault CRM single sign-on profile. This is the value you copied from "Identity Provider Login URL" in the View Setup Instructions screen from the "Veeva Vault" app integration menu in Okta (step 8 in the linked Vault CRM Okta SSO guide above).
- This should look like: https://dev-XXXXXXXXX.okta.com/app/veeva_vault/XXXXXXXXXXXXXXX/sso/saml
- SSOExchangeURL: the "Vault SSO Login URL" associated with your Vault CRM single sign-on profile. After you have created a single sign-on profile in Vault CRM (step 12 in the linked Vault CRM Okta SSO guide above), you can find this in Vault CRM by navigating to Admin > Settings > SAML Profiles > (click your SAML profile's label) > SAML Single Sign-on Configuration.
- This should look like: https://login.veevavault.com/auth/saml/consumer/_XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX