Manage Paymo Data in DBArtisan as a JDBC Source

Jerod Johnson
Jerod Johnson
Director, Technology Evangelism
Use wizards in DBArtisan to create a JDBC data source for Paymo.

The CData JDBC Driver for Paymo seamlessly integrates Paymo data into database management tools like DBArtisan by enabling you to access Paymo data as a database. This article shows how to create a JDBC source for Paymo in DBArtisan. You can then edit data visually and execute standard SQL.

Integrate Paymo Data into DBArtisan Projects

Follow the steps below to register Paymo data as a database instance in your project:

  1. In DBArtisan, click Data Source -> Register Datasource.
  2. Select Generic JDBC.
  3. Click Manage.
  4. In the resulting dialog, click New. Enter a name for the driver and click Add. In the resulting dialog, navigate to the driver JAR. The driver JAR is located in the lib subfolder of the installation directory.
  5. In the Connection URL box, enter credentials and other required connection properties in the JDBC URL.

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

    Paymo API Profile Settings

    Log into your Paymo account, navigate to My Settings > Integrations > API Keys, and select Generate New Key to create your API key.

    Built-in Connection String Designer

    For assistance in constructing the JDBC URL, use the connection string designer built into the Paymo JDBC Driver. Either double-click the JAR file or execute the jar file from the command-line.

    java -jar cdata.jdbc.api.jar
    

    Fill in the connection properties and copy the connection string to the clipboard.

    Below is a typical connection string:

    jdbc:api:Profile=C:\profiles\Paymo.apip;ProfileSettings='APIKey=your_api_key';
  6. Finish the wizard to connect to Paymo data. Paymo entities are displayed in the Datasource Explorer.

You can now work with Paymo data as you work with any other database. See the driver help documentation for more information on the queries supported by the Paymo API.

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