Access Live SendPulse Data in Excel (Desktop) through Connect Spreadsheets

Cameron Leblanc
Cameron Leblanc
Senior Technology Evangelist
Use Connect Spreadsheets by CData to gain access to live SendPulse data from your Excel spreadsheets.

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Microsoft Excel is a widely used spreadsheet software application, primarily used for tasks related to data management, analysis, and visualization. When combined with Connect Spreadsheets by CData, you gain immediate access to SendPulse data directly within Excel, facilitating data analysis, collaboration, calculations, and more. This article shows how to connect to SendPulse in Connect Spreadsheets and access live SendPulse data in Excel spreadsheets.

Connect Spreadsheets is the easiest way to get all your live data into Microsoft Excel and Google Sheets - no more downloading, wrangling, and uploading files again. Just connect to your data, select the dataset you'd like to see, and import it into your spreadsheet.

This setup requires a Connect Spreadsheets account and the Connect Spreadsheets Add-In for Excel. To get started, sign up a free trial of Connect Spreadsheets and install the free Connect Spreadsheets Excel Add-In.


Configure SendPulse Connectivity for Excel

Connectivity to SendPulse from Excel is made possible through Connect Spreadsheets. To work with SendPulse data from Excel, we start by creating and configuring a SendPulse connection.

  1. Log into Connect Spreadsheets, click Connections and click Add Connection Adding a Connection
  2. Select "SendPulse" from the Add Connection panel Selecting a data source
  3. Enter the necessary authentication properties to connect to SendPulse.

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

    SendPulse API Profile Settings

    Log into your SendPulse account, navigate to Profile > Account Settings > API, and retrieve your API ID and Secret to use as your OAuth Client ID and Secret.

    Configuring a connection (Salesforce is shown)
  4. Click Create & Test
  5. Navigate to the Permissions tab in the Add SendPulse Connection page and update the User-based permissions. Updating permissions

With the connection configured, you are ready to connect to SendPulse data from Excel.

Access Live SendPulse Data in Excel

The steps below outline connecting to Connect Spreadsheets from Excel to access live SendPulse data.

  1. Open Excel, create a new sheet (or open an existing one).
  2. Click Insert and click Get Add-ins. (if you have already installed the Add-In, jump to step 4).
  3. Search for Connect Spreadsheets and install the Add-in. Install the Add-In
  4. Click Data and open the CData Connect Spreadsheets Add-In.
  5. In the Add-In panel, click "Log in" to authenticate with your Connect Spreadsheets account Authorizing the Add-In
  6. In the Connect Spreadsheets panel in Excel, click Import Connect Spreadsheets panel in Excel
  7. Choose a Connection (e.g. API1), Table (e.g. AutomationFlowsStatistics), and Columns to import Connect Spreadsheets panel in Excel
  8. Optionally add Filters, Sorting, and a Limit Choosing a Connection, Table, and Columns
  9. Click Execute to import the data and opt to overwrite the existing sheet or create a new one. Executing the Query

Live Access to SendPulse Data from Spreadsheet Apps

New, you have a direct, cloud-to-cloud connection to live SendPulse data from your Excel workbook. You can add more data to your workbook for calculations, aggregations, collaboration, and more.

Imported data (Salesforce is shown)

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