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Provides .NET developers with the power to easily connect their Web, Desktop, and Mobile applications to data to SAP Fieldglass Approvals, Audit Trails, Analytics, and more!

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This article demonstrates how to access SAP Fieldglass data from PowerBuilder using the CData ADO.NET Provider for SAP Fieldglass.

The CData ADO.NET providers are easy-to-use, standards-based controls that can be used from any platform or development technology that supports Microsoft .NET, including PowerBuilder. This article shows how to use the CData ADO.NET Provider for SAP Fieldglass in PowerBuilder.

This article shows how to create a basic PowerBuilder application that uses the CData ADO.NET Provider for SAP Fieldglass to retrieve data.

  1. In a new WPF Window Application solution, add all the Visual Controls needed for the connection properties. Below is a typical connection string:

    EnvironmentURL='https://myinstance.com';Username=myuser;Password=mypassword;APIKey=xxxxxxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxxxxxxxxxx;InitiateOAuth=GETANDREFRESH

    To authenticate, you will need to specify the Username, Password, APIKey, and EnvironmentURL connection properties.

    To obtain an APIKey, log in to the SAP API Business Hub and click on Get API Key.

  2. Add the DataGrid control from the .NET controls.
  3. Configure the columns of the DataGrid control. Below are several columns from the Account table: <DataGrid AutoGenerateColumns="False" Margin="13,249,12,14" Name="datagrid1" TabIndex="70" ItemsSource="{Binding}"> <DataGrid.Columns> <DataGridTextColumn x:Name="idColumn" Binding="{Binding Path=Id}" Header="Id" Width="SizeToHeader" /> <DataGridTextColumn x:Name="nameColumn" Binding="{Binding Path=Id}" Header="Id" Width="SizeToHeader" /> ... </DataGrid.Columns> </DataGrid>
  4. Add a reference to the CData ADO.NET Provider for SAP Fieldglass assembly.

Connect the DataGrid

Once the visual elements have been configured, you can use standard ADO.NET objects like Connection, Command, and DataAdapter to populate a DataTable with the results of an SQL query:

System.Data.CData.SAPFieldglass.SAPFieldglassConnection conn conn = create System.Data.CData.SAPFieldglass.SAPFieldglassConnection(connectionString) System.Data.CData.SAPFieldglass.SAPFieldglassCommand comm comm = create System.Data.CData.SAPFieldglass.SAPFieldglassCommand(command, conn) System.Data.DataTable table table = create System.Data.DataTable System.Data.CData.SAPFieldglass.SAPFieldglassDataAdapter dataAdapter dataAdapter = create System.Data.CData.SAPFieldglass.SAPFieldglassDataAdapter(comm) dataAdapter.Fill(table) datagrid1.ItemsSource=table.DefaultView

The code above can be used to bind data from the specified query to the DataGrid.