Import Real-Time Reckon Accounts Hosted Data in ColdFusion to Build Applications

Adobe ColdFusion is a web and mobile application development platform. It uses its own scripting language, ColdFusion Markup Language (CFML), to create data-driven websites as well as generate remote services, such as REST. When ColdFusion is paired with the CData ODBC Driver for Reckon Accounts Hosted, you can link your ColdFusion web and mobile applications to operational Reckon Accounts Hosted data. This allows for your applications to be more robust and complete. This article details how to use the ODBC driver to create a table populated with Reckon Accounts Hosted data from within a ColdFusion markup file.

To follow along with this tutorial, you need to install the CData ODBC Driver for Reckon Accounts Hosted and Adobe ColdFusion.

Configuring the Connection

If you have not already, first specify connection properties in an ODBC DSN (Data Source Name). This is the last step of the driver installation process. You can use the Microsoft ODBC Data Source Administrator to create and configure ODBC DSNs.

The connector makes requests to Reckon Accounts Hosted through OAuth. Specify the following connection properties:

• SubscriptionKey: Required. You get this value when you created your developer account.
• CountryVersion: Defaults to 2021.R2.AU.
• CompanyFile: Required. The path to the company file.
• User: Required. The username of the company file.
• Password: Required. The password of the company file.
• InitiateOAuth: Set this to GETANDREFRESH to let the driver handle access tokens.
• CallbackURL: The redirectURI of your Custom OAuth App.
• OAuthClientId: The client id of your Custom OAuth App.
• OAuthClientSecret: The client secret of your Custom OAuth App.

CData provides an embedded OAuth application that simplifies OAuth desktop authentication. See the Help documentation for information on other OAuth authentication methods (web, headless, etc.), creating custom OAuth applications, and reasons for doing so.

Adding a Data Source and Creating a Table

After creating a DSN, follow the steps below to add a new data source, test our connection to it, create a ColdFusion markup file, and, finally, import Reckon Accounts Hosted Reckon Accounts Hosted data and display it in a table in ColdFusion:

1. From the ColdFusion administrator interface, choose Data & Services.
2. Here, click "Add New Data Source". The data source name can be any name, provided it conforms to the ColdFusion variable naming conventions. For our ODBC driver, choose "ODBC Socket", then click the "Add" button.
3. From the ODBC DSN Dropdown menu select CData Reckon Accounts Hosted Sys. Under the Advanced Settings section, leave the Connection String blank. Note that any properties specified in this input field will override the ones specified in the DSN Configuration.
4. Now, test the connection by pressing the check mark to the left of the CDataReckon Accounts HostedODBC data source you just created. When the data source reports an "OK" status, it is ready for use.
5. Next, create a new ColdFusion Markup file (.cfm) and place it in the wwwroot directory ("C:\ColdFusion2021\cfusion\wwwroot") for ColdFusion.

   The following code queries the data source:

               
           <cfquery name="Reckon Accounts HostedQuery" dataSource="CDataReckon Accounts HostedODBC"> 
             SELECT * FROM Accounts 
           </cfquery> 
       

   And a CFTable can be used to quickly output the table in HTML:

               
             <cftable  
             query = "Reckon Accounts HostedQuery" 
             border = "1" 
             colHeaders 
             colSpacing = "2" 
             headerLines = "2" 
             HTMLTable 
             maxRows = "500" 
             startRow = "1"> 
   
             <cfcol header="<b>Name</b>" align="Left" width=2 text="Name"/> 
   
             <cfcol header="<b>Balance</b>" align="Left" width=15 text="Balance"/> 
   
             ...
   
           </cftable> 
       

   Full code, including the HTML portion is available below:

               
           <html> 
           <head><title>CData Software | Reckon Accounts Hosted Accounts Table Demo </title></head> 
           <body> 
           <cfoutput>#ucase("Reckon Accounts Hosted Accounts Table Demo")#</cfoutput> 
           <cfquery name="Reckon Accounts HostedQuery" dataSource="CDataReckon Accounts HostedODBC"> 
   
             SELECT * FROM Accounts 
   
           </cfquery> 
           <cftable  
             query = "Reckon Accounts HostedQuery" 
             border = "1" 
             colHeaders 
             colSpacing = "2" 
             headerLines = "2" 
             HTMLTable 
             maxRows = "500" 
             startRow = "1"> 
             <cfcol header="<b>Name</b>" align="Left" width=2 text="Name"/> 
   
             <cfcol header="<b>Balance</b>" align="Left" width=15 text="Balance"/> 
   
             ...
   
           </cftable> 
           </body> 
   
           </html>  
       

6. Finally, run the code in a browser. It produces a table populated with Reckon Accounts Hosted data!

As a note, the CData ODBC Drivers also support parameterized queries using the cfqueryparam element. For example: SELECT * FROM Account WHERE name =

Get Started Today

Download a free, 30-day trial of the CData ODBC Driver for Reckon Accounts Hosted and start building Reckon Accounts Hosted-connected applications with Adobe ColdFusion. Reach out to our Support Team if you have any questions.