Connect to Reckon Accounts Hosted Data in DBArtisan

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

Integrate Reckon Accounts Hosted Data into DBArtisan Projects

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.

The connector makes requests to Reckon Accounts Hosted through OAuth. Specify the following connection properties:

• SubscriptionKey: Required. You get this value when you created your developer account.
• CountryVersion: Defaults to 2021.R2.AU.
• CompanyFile: Required. The path to the company file.
• User: Required. The username of the company file.
• Password: Required. The password of the company file.
• InitiateOAuth: Set this to GETANDREFRESH to let the driver handle access tokens.
• CallbackURL: The redirectURI of your Custom OAuth App.
• OAuthClientId: The client id of your Custom OAuth App.
• OAuthClientSecret: The client secret of your Custom OAuth App.

CData provides an embedded OAuth application that simplifies OAuth desktop authentication. See the Help documentation for information on other OAuth authentication methods (web, headless, etc.), creating custom OAuth applications, and reasons for doing so.

You can then follow the steps below to register Reckon Accounts Hosted data as a database instance in your project:

1. In DBArtisan, click Data Source -> Register Datasource.
2. Select Generic ODBC.
3. Enter a name for the data source and select the DSN.
4. Finish the wizard to connect to Reckon Accounts Hosted data. Reckon Accounts Hosted entities are displayed in the Datasource Explorer.

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