Automate Blackbaud FE NXT Integration Tasks from PowerShell

The CData Cmdlets for Blackbaud FE NXT are standard PowerShell cmdlets that make it easy to accomplish data cleansing, normalization, backup, and other integration tasks by enabling real-time and bidirectional access to Blackbaud FE NXT.

PowerShell Cmdlets or ADO.NET Provider?

The Cmdlets are not only a PowerShell interface to Blackbaud FE NXT, but also an SQL interface; this tutorial shows how to use both to create, retrieve, update, and delete Blackbaud FE NXT data. We also show examples of the ADO.NET equivalent, which is possible with the CData ADO.NET Provider for Blackbaud FE NXT. To access Blackbaud FE NXT data from other .NET applications, like LINQPad, use the CData ADO.NET Provider for Blackbaud FE NXT.

Once you have acquired the necessary connection properties, accessing Blackbaud FE NXT data in PowerShell can be enabled in three steps.

Blackbaud Financial Edge NXT uses the OAuth authentication standard. To authenticate using OAuth, you will need to create an app to obtain the OAuthClientId, OAuthClientSecret, and CallbackURL connection properties.

See the Getting Started guide in the CData driver documentation for more information.

PowerShell

1. Install the module:

   Install-Module FinancialEdgeNXTCmdlets

2. Connect:

   $financialedgenxt = Connect-FinancialEdgeNXT -SubscriptionKey "$SubscriptionKey"

3. Search for and retrieve data:

   $modifiedby = "System" $accounts = Select-FinancialEdgeNXT -Connection $financialedgenxt -Table "Accounts" -Where "ModifiedBy = `'$ModifiedBy`'" $accounts

   You can also use the Invoke-FinancialEdgeNXT cmdlet to execute SQL commands:

   $accounts = Invoke-FinancialEdgeNXT -Connection $financialedgenxt -Query 'SELECT * FROM Accounts WHERE ModifiedBy = @ModifiedBy' -Params @{'@ModifiedBy'='System'}

ADO.NET

1. Load the provider's assembly:

   [Reflection.Assembly]::LoadFile("C:\Program Files\CData\CData ADO.NET Provider for Blackbaud FE NXT\lib\System.Data.CData.FinancialEdgeNXT.dll")

2. Connect to Blackbaud FE NXT:

   $conn= New-Object System.Data.CData.FinancialEdgeNXT.FinancialEdgeNXTConnection("SubscriptionKey=MySubscriptionKey;InitiateOAuth=GETANDREFRESH") $conn.Open()

3. Instantiate the FinancialEdgeNXTDataAdapter, execute an SQL query, and output the results:

   $sql="SELECT AccountId, AccountNumber from Accounts" $da= New-Object System.Data.CData.FinancialEdgeNXT.FinancialEdgeNXTDataAdapter($sql, $conn) $dt= New-Object System.Data.DataTable $da.Fill($dt) $dt.Rows | foreach { Write-Host $_.accountid $_.accountnumber }

Update Blackbaud FE NXT Data

PowerShell

ADO.NET

Insert Blackbaud FE NXT Data

PowerShell

ADO.NET

Delete Blackbaud FE NXT Data

PowerShell

ADO.NET