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The TSheets Excel Add-In is a powerful tool that allows you to connect with live TSheets data, directly from Microsoft Excel.

Use Excel to access TSheets Payroll, Timesheets, Schedules, etc. Perfect for mass exports, Excel-based data analysis, and more!

Excel Spreadsheet Automation with the QUERY Formula



Pull data, automate spreadsheets, and more with the QUERY formula.

The CData Excel Add-In for TSheets provides formulas that can query TSheets data. The following three steps show how you can automate the following task: Search TSheets data for a user-specified value and then organize the results into an Excel spreadsheet.

The syntax of the CDATAQUERY formula is the following: =CDATAQUERY(Query, [Connection], [Parameters], [ResultLocation]);

This formula requires three inputs:

  • Query: The declaration of the TSheets data records you want to retrieve, written in standard SQL.
  • Connection: Either the connection name, such as TSheetsConnection1, or a connection string. The connection string consists of the required properties for connecting to TSheets data, separated by semicolons.

    TSheets uses the OAuth2 standard for authentication and authorization. To construct your own OAuth app and connect to data, refer to OAuth section in the Help.

  • ResultLocation: The cell that the output of results should start from.

Pass Spreadsheet Cells as Inputs to the Query

The procedure below results in a spreadsheet that organizes all the formula inputs in the first column.

  1. Define cells for the formula inputs. In addition to the connection inputs, add another input to define a criterion for a filter to be used to search TSheets data, such as JobCodeType.
  2. In another cell, write the formula, referencing the cell values from the user input cells defined above. Single quotes are used to enclose values such as addresses that may contain spaces.
  3. =CDATAQUERY("SELECT * FROM Timesheets WHERE JobCodeType = '"&B4&"'","OAuthClientId="&B1&";OAuthClientSecret="&B2&";CallbackUrl="&B3&";Provider=TSheets",B5)
  4. Change the filter to change the data.