Integrate Neo4J Data into Automated Tasks with Power Automate

Power Automate (Microsoft Flow) is an online service that automates events (known as workflows) across the most common apps and services. When paired with CData Connect Server, you get instant, cloud-to-cloud access to Neo4J data for visualizations, dashboards, and more. This article shows how to connect to Connect Server from Power Automate and integrate live Neo4J data into your workflows and tasks.

CData Connect Server provides a pure SQL interface for Neo4J, allowing you to easily integrate with live Neo4J data in Power Automate — without replicating the data. CData Connect Server looks exactly like a SQL Server database to Power Automate and uses optimized data processing out of the box to push all supported SQL operations (filters, JOINs, etc) directly to Neo4J, leveraging server-side processing to quickly return Neo4J data.

Create a Virtual SQL Database for Neo4J Data

CData Connect Server uses a straightforward, point-and-click interface to connect to data sources and generate APIs.

1. Login to Connect Server and click Connections.
2. Select "Neo4J" from Available Data Sources.
3. Enter the necessary authentication properties to connect to Neo4J.

   To connect to Neo4j, set the following connection properties:

   • Server: The server hosting the Neo4j instance.
   • Port: The port on which the Neo4j service is running. The provider connects to port 7474 by default.
   • User: The username of the user using the Neo4j instance.
   • Password: The password of the user using the Neo4j instance.
4. Click Save Changes
5. Click Privileges -> Add and add the new user (or an existing user) with the appropriate permissions.

Connecting to CData Connect Server

To use Connect Server to integrate Neo4J data into your Power Automate tasks, you need a new SQL Server connection:

1. Log in to Power Automate
2. Click Data -> Connections -> New connection
3. Select SQL Server
4. In the connection wizard:
   
   
   • Set Authentication Type to "SQL Server Authentication"
   • Set SQL server name to the address of your Connect Server instance (connect_server_url)
   • Set SQL database name to the name of the virtual Neo4J database you created earlier (like neo4jdb)
   • Set the Username and Password and click Create

Integrating Neo4J Data into Power Automate Tasks

With the connection to Connect Server configured, you are ready to integrate live Neo4J data into your Power Automate tasks.

1. Log in to Power Automate
2. Click My flows -> New and choose to create the flow from blank or template
3. Add (or configure) a SQL Server action (like Get rows) and configure the action to connect to your Connect Server connection
4. Select a Table to work with (from the drop-down menu) and configure any advanced options (like filters, orders, etc)
5. Configure any actions to follow and test, then save the flow

SQL Access to Neo4J Data from Applications

Now you have a direct connection to live Neo4J data from Power Automate tasks. You can create more connections and workflows to drive business — all without replicating Neo4J data.

To get SQL data access to 200+ SaaS, Big Data, and NoSQL sources directly from your applications, see the CData Connect Server.

Related Power Automate Articles

This article walks through using CData Connect Server with Power Automate (Online). Check out our other articles for more ways to work with Power Automate Desktop:

• Neo4J Data in Power Automate Desktop using CData Connect
• Neo4J Data in Power Automate Desktop via ODBC