Access Live Avaza Data in Excel (Desktop) via Connect AI

Microsoft Excel is a widely used spreadsheet software application, primarily used for tasks related to data management, analysis, and visualization. When combined with CData Connect AI, you gain immediate access to Avaza data directly within Excel, facilitating data analysis, collaboration, calculations, and more.This article shows how to connect to Avaza in your Connect AI instance and access live Avaza data in Excel spreadsheets.

CData Connect AI provides a pure cloud-to-cloud interface for Avaza, allowing you to easily access live Avaza data in Excel for the web. Simply use the Connect AI Add-In to query live data (or write your own). Using optimized data processing out of the box, CData Connect AI pushes all supported query operations (filters, JOINs, etc) directly to Avaza, leveraging server-side processing to quickly return Avaza data.

Configure Avaza Connectivity for Excel

Connectivity to Avaza from Excel is made possible through CData Connect AI. To work with Avaza data from Excel, we start by creating and configuring a Avaza connection.

1. Log into Connect AI, click Sources, and then click Add Connection

2. Select "Avaza" from the Add Connection panel

3. Enter the necessary authentication properties to connect to Avaza.

   Start by setting the Profile connection property to the location of the Avaza Profile on disk (e.g. C:\profiles\Avaza.apip). Next, set the ProfileSettings connection property to the connection string for Avaza (see below).

   Avaza API Profile Settings

   Register an OAuth application in Avaza under Settings > Manage Developer Apps > OAuth 2 Apps > Add OAuth App to obtain your client ID and secret credentials.

   
4. Click Save & Test
5. Navigate to the Permissions tab in the Add Avaza Connection page and update the User-based permissions.

With the connection configured, you are ready to connect to Avaza data from Excel.

Access Live Avaza Data in Excel

The steps below outline connecting to CData Connect AI from Excel to access live Avaza data.

1. Open Excel, create a new sheet (or open an existing one).
2. Click Insert and click Get Add-ins. (if you have already installed the Add-In, jump to step 4).
3. Search for CData Connect AI Add-In and install the Add-in.
4. Click Data and open the CData Connect AI Add-In.
5. In the Add-In panel, click Authorize to authenticate with your CData Connect AI instance
6. In the CData Connect AI panel in Excel, click Import
7. Choose a Connection (e.g. API1), Table (e.g. Account), and Columns to import
8. Optionally add Filters, Sorting, and a Limit
9. Click Execute to import the data

Live Access to Avaza Data from Cloud Applications

Now, you have a direct, cloud-to-cloud connection to live Avaza data from your Excel workbook. You can add more data to your workbook for calculations, aggregations, collaboration, and more.

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