How to pipe HCL Domino Data to CSV in PowerShell



Use standard PowerShell cmdlets to access HCL Domino tables.

The CData Cmdlets Module for HCL Domino is a standard PowerShell module offering straightforward integration with HCL Domino. Below, you will find examples of using our Domino Cmdlets with native PowerShell cmdlets.

Creating a Connection to Your HCL Domino Data

Connecting to Domino

To connect to Domino data, set the following properties:

  • URL: The host name or IP of the server hosting the Domino database. Include the port of the server hosting the Domino database. For example: http://sampleserver:1234/
  • DatabaseScope: The name of a scope in the Domino Web UI. The driver exposes forms and views for the schema governed by the specified scope. In the Domino Admin UI, select the Scopes menu in the sidebar. Set this property to the name of an existing scope.

Authenticating with Domino

Domino supports authenticating via login credentials or an Azure Active Directory OAuth application:

Login Credentials

To authenticate with login credentials, set the following properties:

  • AuthScheme: Set this to "OAuthPassword"
  • User: The username of the authenticating Domino user
  • Password: The password associated with the authenticating Domino user

The driver uses the login credentials to automatically perform an OAuth token exchange.

AzureAD

This authentication method uses Azure Active Directory as an IdP to obtain a JWT token. You need to create a custom OAuth application in Azure Active Directory and configure it as an IdP. To do so, follow the instructions in the Help documentation. Then set the following properties:

  • AuthScheme: Set this to "AzureAD"
  • InitiateOAuth: Set this to GETANDREFRESH. You can use InitiateOAuth to avoid repeating the OAuth exchange and manually setting the OAuthAccessToken.
  • OAuthClientId: The Client ID obtained when setting up the custom OAuth application.
  • OAuthClientSecret: The Client secret obtained when setting up the custom OAuth application.
  • CallbackURL: The redirect URI defined when you registered your app. For example: https://localhost:33333
  • AzureTenant: The Microsoft Online tenant being used to access data. Supply either a value in the form companyname.microsoft.com or the tenant ID.

    The tenant ID is the same as the directory ID shown in the Azure Portal's Azure Active Directory > Properties page.

$conn = Connect-Domino  -Server "$Server" -AuthScheme "$AuthScheme" -User "$User" -Password "$Password"

Selecting Data

Follow the steps below to retrieve data from the ByName table and pipe the result into to a CSV file:

Select-Domino -Connection $conn -Table ByName | Select -Property * -ExcludeProperty Connection,Table,Columns | Export-Csv -Path c:\myByNameData.csv -NoTypeInformation

You will notice that we piped the results from Select-Domino into a Select-Object cmdlet and excluded some properties before piping them into an Export-Csv cmdlet. We do this because the CData Cmdlets append Connection, Table, and Columns information onto each "row" in the result set, and we do not necessarily want that information in our CSV file.

The Connection, Table, and Columns are appended to the results in order to facilitate piping results from one of the CData Cmdlets directly into another one.

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