Excel Spreadsheet Automation with the QUERY Formula

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

Getting Started

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

This formula requires three inputs:

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

• Connection: Either the connection name, such as SageIntacctConnection1, or a connection string. The connection string consists of the required properties for connecting to Sage Intacct data, separated by semicolons.

  To connect using the Login method, the following connection properties are required: User, Password, CompanyId, SenderId and SenderPassword.

  User, Password, and CompanyId are the credentials for the account you wish to connect to.

  SenderId and SenderPassword are the Web Services credentials assigned to you by Sage Intacct.

• 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 Sage Intacct data, such as CustomerId.
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 Customer WHERE CustomerId = '"&B6&"'","User="&B1&";CompanyId="&B2&";Password="&B3&";SenderId="&B4&";SenderPassword="&B5&";Provider=SageIntacct",B7)
3. Change the filter to change the data.