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The Epicor Kinetic ODBC Driver is a powerful tool that allows you to connect with live Epicor Kinetic data, directly from any applications that support ODBC connectivity.

Access Epicor Kinetic like you would a database - read, write, and update Sales Orders, Purchase Orders, Accounts, etc. through a standard ODBC Driver interface.

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Viewing Epicor Kinetic Data in RAD Studio Data Explorer


How to view Epicor Kinetic data in RAD Studio Data Explorer using the CData ODBC Driver for Epicor Kinetic.

Embarcadero RAD Studio provides a development environment for Delphi and C++Builder applications. With the CData ODBC Driver for Epicor Kinetic, you gain access to live Epicor Kinetic data within RAD Studio, abstracting the data into tables, views, and stored procedures that can be used to both retrieve and update Epicor Kinetic data. This article will walk through connecting to Epicor Kinetic using the Data Explorer.

Configure a Connection to Epicor Kinetic

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. You can use the Microsoft ODBC Data Source Administrator to create and configure ODBC DSNs.

To successfully connect to your ERP instance, you must specify the following connection properties:

  • Url:the URL of the server hosting your ERP instance. For example, https://myserver.EpicorSaaS.com
  • ERPInstance: the name of your ERP instance.
  • User: the username of your account.
  • Password: the password of your account.
  • Service: the service you want to retrieve data from. For example, BaqSvc.

In addition, you may also set the optional connection properties:

  • ApiKey: An optional key that may be required for connection to some services depending on your account configuration.
  • ApiVersion: Defaults to v1. May be set to v2 to use the newer Epicor API.
  • Company: Required if you set the ApiVersion to v2.

Connecting to Epicor Kinetic Data Using Data Explorer

You can create a simple application for displaying Epicor Kinetic data by utilizing the CData FireDAC Components for Epicor Kinetic and a new VCL Forms Application:

  1. Open the Data Explorer in RAD Studio and expand FireDAC.
  2. Right-click the ODBC Data Source node in the Data Explorer.
  3. Click Add New Connection.
  4. Enter a name for the connection.
  5. In the FireDAC Connection Editor that appears, set the DataSource property to the name of the ODBC DSN for Epicor Kinetic.
  6. Back in the Data Explorer, expand the tables for the connection.

  7. Create a new VCL Forms application and drag a table (for example: Customers) onto the form.

  8. Select the CustomersTable object on the form and set the Active property to true.

  9. Right-click on the object, bind visually, and link everything (*) to a new control (TStringGrid).

  10. Arrange the TStringGrid on the form and run the application to see the Customers data.