Access Live Moosend Data in Excel (Desktop) via Connect AI

Microsoft Excel is a widely used spreadsheet software application, primarily used for tasks related to data management, analysis, and visualization. When combined with CData Connect AI, you gain immediate access to Moosend data directly within Excel, facilitating data analysis, collaboration, calculations, and more.This article shows how to connect to Moosend in your Connect AI instance and access live Moosend data in Excel spreadsheets.

CData Connect AI provides a pure cloud-to-cloud interface for Moosend, allowing you to easily access live Moosend data in Excel for the web. Simply use the Connect AI Add-In to query live data (or write your own). Using optimized data processing out of the box, CData Connect AI pushes all supported query operations (filters, JOINs, etc) directly to Moosend, leveraging server-side processing to quickly return Moosend data.

Configure Moosend Connectivity for Excel

Connectivity to Moosend from Excel is made possible through CData Connect AI. To work with Moosend data from Excel, we start by creating and configuring a Moosend connection.

1. Log into Connect AI, click Sources, and then click Add Connection

2. Select "Moosend" from the Add Connection panel

3. Enter the necessary authentication properties to connect to Moosend.

   Start by setting the Profile connection property to the location of the Moosend Profile on disk (e.g. C:\profiles\Moosend.apip). Next, set the ProfileSettings connection property to the connection string for Moosend (see below).

   Moosend API Profile Settings

   Obtain your API key from the Settings page in your Moosend account dashboard.

   
4. Click Save & Test
5. Navigate to the Permissions tab in the Add Moosend Connection page and update the User-based permissions.

With the connection configured, you are ready to connect to Moosend data from Excel.

Access Live Moosend Data in Excel

The steps below outline connecting to CData Connect AI from Excel to access live Moosend data.

1. Open Excel, create a new sheet (or open an existing one).
2. Click Insert and click Get Add-ins. (if you have already installed the Add-In, jump to step 4).
3. Search for CData Connect AI Add-In and install the Add-in.
4. Click Data and open the CData Connect AI Add-In.
5. In the Add-In panel, click Authorize to authenticate with your CData Connect AI instance
6. In the CData Connect AI panel in Excel, click Import
7. Choose a Connection (e.g. API1), Table (e.g. Campaign), and Columns to import
8. Optionally add Filters, Sorting, and a Limit
9. Click Execute to import the data

Live Access to Moosend Data from Cloud Applications

Now, you have a direct, cloud-to-cloud connection to live Moosend data from your Excel workbook. You can add more data to your workbook for calculations, aggregations, collaboration, and more.

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