Automate Zenefits Integration Tasks from PowerShell

The CData API Driver for ADO.NET is a standard ADO.NET Provider that make it easy to accomplish data cleansing, normalization, backup, and other integration tasks by enabling real-time access to Zenefits.

ADO.NET Provider

The ADO.NET Provider provides a SQL interface for Zenefits; this tutorial shows how to use the Provider to retrieve Zenefits data.

Once you have acquired the necessary connection properties, accessing Zenefits data in PowerShell can be enabled in three steps.

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

Zenefits API Profile Settings

In order to authenticate to Zenefits, you'll need to provide your API Key. To create an API Key, from your account head over to Company Overview > Custom Integrations, then besides Rest API Access select Add Token. Set the API Key in the ProfileSettings property to connect.

1. Load the provider's assembly:

   [Reflection.Assembly]::LoadFile("C:\Program Files\CData\CData API Driver for ADO.NET\lib\System.Data.CData.API.dll")

2. Connect to Zenefits:

   $conn= New-Object System.Data.CData.API.APIConnection("Profile=C:\profiles\Zenefits.apip;ProfileSettings='APIKey=my_api_token';") $conn.Open()

3. Instantiate the APIDataAdapter, execute an SQL query, and output the results:

   $sql="SELECT Id, Title from People" $da= New-Object System.Data.CData.API.APIDataAdapter($sql, $conn) $dt= New-Object System.Data.DataTable $da.Fill($dt) $dt.Rows | foreach { Write-Host $_.id $_.title }