Access Live Odoo Data in Emergent via CData Connect AI

Yazhini G
Yazhini G
Technical Marketing Engineer
Leverage the CData Connect AI Remote MCP Server to enable Emergent agents to securely access and build applications with live Odoo data through MCP integration.

Emergent is an AI-powered development platform that lets users describe what they want to build and have an autonomous agent generate full-stack web applications in real time. Agents can connect to external tools and data sources through MCP to retrieve live data and power their outputs.

By integrating Emergent with CData Connect AI through the built-in MCP (Model Context Protocol) Server, Emergent agents gain governed, real-time access to live Odoo data. This enables agents to query, analyze, and visualize Odoo data: either by calling MCP tools directly during a session, or by generating a full application wired to live data, all without manual data exports or custom integration code.

This article outlines the steps to configure Odoo connectivity in Connect AI, register the CData MCP Server in Emergent, and interact with live Odoo data from Emergent.

About Odoo Data Integration

Accessing and integrating live data from Odoo has never been easier with CData. Customers rely on CData connectivity to:

  • Access live data from both Odoo API 8.0+ and Odoo.sh Cloud ERP.
  • Extend the native Odoo features with intelligent handling of many-to-one, one-to-many, and many-to-many data properties. CData's connectivity solutions also intelligently handle complex data properties within Odoo. In addition to columns with simple values like text and dates, there are also columns that contain multiple values on each row. The driver decodes these kinds of values differently, depending upon the type of column the value comes from:
    • Many-to-one columns are references to a single row within another model. Within CData solutions, many-to-one columns are represented as integers, whose value is the ID to which they refer in the other model.
    • Many-to-many columns are references to many rows within another model. Within CData solutions, many-to-many columns are represented as text containing a comma-separated list of integers. Each value in that list is the ID of a row that is being referenced.
    • One-to-many columns are references to many rows within another model - they are similar to many-to-many columns (comma-separated lists of integers), except that each row in the referenced model must belong to only one in the main model.
  • Use SQL stored procedures to call server-side RFCs within Odoo.

Users frequently integrate Odoo with analytics tools such as Power BI and Qlik Sense, and leverage our tools to replicate Odoo data to databases or data warehouses.


Getting Started


Step 1: Configure Odoo connectivity for Emergent

Connectivity to Odoo from Emergent is made possible through CData Connect AI's Remote MCP Server. To interact with Odoo data from Emergent, start by creating and configuring a Odoo connection in CData Connect AI.

  1. Log into Connect AI, click Sources, and then click Add Connection
  2. Select Odoo from the Add Connection panel
  3. Enter the necessary authentication properties to connect to Odoo.

    To connect, set the Url to a valid Odoo site, User and Password to the connection details of the user you are connecting with, and Database to the Odoo database.

  4. Click Save & Test
  5. Navigate to the Permissions tab and update user-based permissions

Add a Personal Access Token

A Personal Access Token (PAT) is used to authenticate the connection to Connect AI from Emergent. It is best practice to create a separate PAT for each integration to maintain granular access control.

  1. Click the gear icon () at the top right of the Connect AI app to open Settings
  2. On the Settings page, go to the Access Tokens section and click Create PAT
  3. Give the PAT a descriptive name and click Create
  4. Copy the token when displayed and store it securely. It will not be shown again

With the Odoo connection configured and a PAT generated, Emergent can now connect to Odoo data through Connect AI.

Step 2: Configure Connect AI in Emergent

CData Connect AI can be integrated with Emergent in two ways depending on your account tier. Pro and Enterprise users can register the MCP Server directly in the Emergent UI, while free-tier users can describe the integration in natural language and have Emergent's agent build a connected application automatically.

Method 1: Direct MCP Configuration (Pro/Enterprise)

Pro and Enterprise users can register the CData Connect AI MCP Server directly in the Emergent UI. Once registered, agents in any project can call live Odoo data through MCP tools without additional setup.

  1. Sign in to Emergent and create an account if you do not already have one
  2. Click to start a new project. Enter a Project Name and click Create Project
  3. In the project chat window, select your preferred model from the dropdown (e.g., Claude 4.5 Sonnet)
  4. Click the Advanced Controls icon and then click Select MCP Tools to open the MCP configuration panel
  5. In the Select MCPs to use dialog, click + New MCP Server to add a custom MCP server
  6. In the Configure New MCP dialog, fill in the following:
    • MCP Name: cdata-mcp
    • Description: (optional) A brief description of the server
    • JSON Configuration: Paste the following, replacing base64-encode-email-pat with your Base64-encoded email:PAT string:
    {
    "mcpServers": {
        "cdata-mcp": {
            "args": [
                "-y",
                "mcp-client",
                "connect",
                "https://mcp.cloud.cdata.com/mcp"
            ],
            "command": "npx",
            "env": {
                "MCP_HEADERS": "{\"Authorization\":\"Basic base64-encode-email-pat\"}"
            }
        }
    }
}

    Note: Combine your Connect AI email and PAT in the format email:PAT, then Base64 encode the combined string. For example, given [email protected]:ABC123...XYZ, the value becomes something like: dXNlckBteWRvbWFpbjphSzkvbVB4Mi9Rcjd2TjQ...

  7. Click Verify and Save to register the MCP server
  8. Return to Select MCP Tools and confirm that cdata-mcp is listed and its toggle is enabled. If it is not enabled, toggle it on

With the CData MCP Server registered and enabled, Emergent agents can now query and act on live Odoo data through Connect AI in any project.

Query live Odoo data from Emergent

With the MCP server configured, start a conversation in the Emergent agent panel to interact with live Odoo data.

  1. Return to the project chat and enter a prompt to explore your data, for example:
    • List all available catalogs in my cdata-mcp connection.
    • Show the schemas and tables available for Odoo.
    • Query the top 5 records from Odoo data.
  2. The agent calls the CData Connect AI MCP Server and returns live results from Odoo data

Method 2: Build an application with natural language (Free)

Free-tier users can direct Emergent to build a full-stack application that connects to the CData Connect AI MCP Server through a natural language prompt. The agent will gather the required endpoint and credentials interactively, then generate a working application wired to live Odoo data.

  1. Sign in to Emergent and open the chat window
  2. Enter a prompt that describes the application you want to build. For example: 
    I would like to build a small application that connects to a remote MCP HTTPS server.
I already have the MCP endpoint URL and the required credentials.
The application should:
  - Establish a connection to the remote MCP server
  - Authenticate using the provided credentials
  - Retrieve and list all available catalogs from the MCP

Please make sure the credentials are stored securely in a .env file
and not hardcoded in the application.
  3. Emergent will prompt you to provide the MCP endpoint URL and authentication credentials. Supply the following values:
    • MCP Endpoint URL: https://mcp.cloud.cdata.com/mcp
    • Authorization: Basic base64(email:PAT)
  4. The Emergent agent generates a full-stack application that connects to Odoo data through Connect AI and renders live results in the App Preview panel.

At this point, Emergent has built an application that communicates with the CData Connect AI MCP Server and retrieves live Odoo data, all from a single natural language prompt.

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