How to Access Live MYOB AccountRight Data in Power Automate Desktop via ODBC

The CData ODBC Driver for MYOB AccountRight enables you to access live MYOB AccountRight data in workflow automation tools like Power Automate. This article shows how to integrate MYOB AccountRight data into a simple workflow, moving MYOB AccountRight data into a CSV file.

Through optimized data processing, CData ODBC Drivers offer unmatched performance for interacting with live MYOB AccountRight data in Microsoft Power Automate. When you issue complex SQL queries from Power Automate to MYOB AccountRight, the driver pushes supported SQL operations, like filters and aggregations, directly to MYOB AccountRight and utilizes the embedded SQL engine to process unsupported operations client-side (e.g. SQL functions and JOIN operations).

Connect to MYOB AccountRight as an ODBC Data Source

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.

These properties are required when connecting to a company file (both for Cloud and On-Premise instances).

• CompanyFileId: You can find this by starting MYOB, opening your data file, and selecting Help -> About MYOB
• User: The username associated with your company file.
• Password: The password associated with your company file.

Connecting to a Cloud Instance

To connect to a cloud instance of MYOB, you can use the embedded OAuth credentials or create an OAuth app with MYOB. This process is detailed in the Help documentation.

Connecting to an On-Premise instance:

When connecting to an on-premise instance, you will need to set the following connection property in addition to those above:

• InitiateOauth: Set this to OFF.
• Url: The Url of your MYOB instance.

When you configure the DSN, you may also want to set the Max Rows connection property. This will limit the number of rows returned, which is especially helpful for improving performance when designing workflows.

Integrate MYOB AccountRight Data into Power Automate Workflows

After configuring the DSN for MYOB AccountRight, you are ready to integrate MYOB AccountRight data into your Power Automate workflows. Open Microsoft Power Automate, add a new flow, and name the flow.

In the flow editor, you can add the actions to connect to MYOB AccountRight, query MYOB AccountRight using SQL, and write the query results to a CSV document.

Add an Open SQL Connection Action

Add an "Open SQL connection" action (Actions -> Database) and configure the properties.

• Connection string: DSN=CData MYOB AccountRight Source

After configuring the action, click Save.

Add an Execute SQL Statement Action

Add an "Execute SQL statement" action (Actions -> Database) and configure the properties.

• Get connection by: SQL connection variable
• SQL connection: %SQLConnection% (the variable from the "Open SQL connection" action above)
• SQL statement: SELECT * FROM Accounts

After configuring the action, click Save.

Add a Write to CSV File Action

Add a "Write to CSV file" action (Actions -> File) and configure the properties.

• Variable to write to: %QueryResult% (the variable from the "Execute SQL statement" action above)
• File path: set to a file on disk
• Configure Advanced settings as needed.

After configuring the action, click Save.

Add a Close SQL Connection Action

Add a "Close SQL connection" action (Actions -> Database) and configure the properties.

• SQL Connection: %SQLConnection% (the variable from the "Open SQL connection" action above)

After configuring the action, click Save.

Save & Run the Flow

Once you have configured all the actions for the flow, click the disk icon to save the flow. Click the play icon to run the flow.

Now you have a workflow to move MYOB AccountRight data into a CSV file.

With the CData ODBC Driver for MYOB AccountRight, you get live connectivity to MYOB AccountRight data within your Microsoft Power Automate workflows.

Related Power Automate Articles

This article walks through using the CData ODBC Driver for MYOB AccountRight with Power Automate Desktop. Check out our other articles for more ways to work with Power Automate (Desktop & Online):

• MYOB AccountRight Data in Power Automate Desktop using CData Connect Cloud
• MYOB AccountRight Data in Power Automate (Online) using CData Connect Cloud