Excel Spreadsheet Automation with the QUERY Formula

The CData Excel Add-In for Oracle Eloqua provides formulas that can edit, save, and delete Oracle Eloqua data. The following three steps show how you can automate the following task: Search Oracle Eloqua data for a user-specified value and then organize the results into an Excel spreadsheet.

The syntax of the CDATAQUERY formula is the following: =CDATAQUERY(Query, [Connection], [Parameters], [ResultLocation]);

This formula requires three inputs:

• Query: The declaration of the Oracle Eloqua data records you want to retrieve or the modifications to be made, written in standard SQL.

• Connection: Either the connection name, such as OracleEloquaConnection1, or a connection string. The connection string consists of the required properties for connecting to Oracle Eloqua data, separated by semicolons.

  There are two authentication methods available for connecting to Oracle Eloqua: Login and OAuth. The Login method requires you to have the Company, User, and Password of the user.

  If you do not have access to the username and password or do not wish to require them, you can use OAuth authentication. OAuth is better suited for allowing other users to access their own data. Using login credentials is better suited for accessing your own data.

• ResultLocation: The cell that the output of results should start from.

Pass Spreadsheet Cells as Inputs to the Query

The procedure below results in a spreadsheet that organizes all the formula inputs in the first column.

1. Define cells for the formula inputs. In addition to the connection inputs, add another input to define a criterion for a filter to be used to search Oracle Eloqua data, such as ShipCity.
2. In another cell, write the formula, referencing the cell values from the user input cells defined above. Single quotes are used to enclose values such as addresses that may contain spaces.
=CDATAQUERY("SELECT * FROM Campaign WHERE ShipCity = '"&B4&"'","User="&B1&";Password="&B2&";Company="&B3&";Provider=OracleEloqua",B5)
3. Change the filter to change the data.