Excel Online Connector

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Overview

The Etlworks Excel Online connector allows the fastest and easiest way to connect to real-time Excel Online data. The connector works just like any other database connector.

Etlworks partnered with CData to provide access to Excel Online using industry-standard JDBC protocol. Read about CData Excel Online JDBC connector.

When to use Excel Online connector

Use this connector to create Flows that extract data and load data into Excel Online.

Prerequisites

Enable the Excel Online connector for your Etlworks account. Contact support@etlworks.com to enable the connector.

Create a Connection

Here's how you can create a Connection in two easy steps:

Step 1. In the Connections window, click +, and type in excel online.

Step 2. Enter Connection parameters:

• Permissions: select the permissions that will be used to access Excel Online. 
• OAuth Token: sign in with Microsoft.

Use Other parameters to specify the Connection string options. Read about available Connection string options.

Work with Excel Online

Excel Online Data Models

The connector models the worksheets and ranges in your workbooks as bidirectional tables. When you connect, the connector retrieves the metadata from Excel Online and reflects any changes to the table schemas. 

Read about Excel Online data model.

Stored procedures

Stored procedures are available to complement the data available from the Data Model. It may be necessary to update data available from a view using a stored procedure because the data does not provide for direct, table-like, two-way updates. In these situations, the retrieval of the data is done using the appropriate view or table, while the update is done by calling a stored procedure. Stored procedures take a list of parameters and return back a dataset that contains the collection of tuples that constitute the response.

Read about available stored procedures in the data model.  

To call stored procure from the SQL Flow or from Before/After SQL use EXEC sp_name params=value. Example:

EXECUTE my_proc @second = 2, @first = 1, @third = 3;

SQL Compliance

The connector supports several operations on data, including querying, deleting, modifying, and inserting.

Read about SQL Compliance.

Extract data from Excel Online

Extracting data from Excel Online is similar to extracting data from the relational database.

Here's how you can do this:

Step 1. Create Excel Online Connection which will be used as a source (FROM).

Step 2. Create a destination Connection, for example, a Connection to the relational database, and if needed, a Format (Format is not needed if the destination is a database or well-known API).

Step 3. Create a Flow where the source is a database, and the destination is a Connection created in step 2, for example, a relational database.

Step 4. Add a new source-to-destination transformation.

Step 5. Select the Excel Online Connection created in step 1 as a source Connection and select the data object you are extracting data from.

Step 6. Select TO Connection, Format (if needed), and object (for example, database table) to load data into.

Step 7. Click MAPPING and optionally enter Source query (you don't need a query if you are extracting data from the Excel Online data object unconditionally).

Step 8. Optionally define the per-field Mapping.

Step 9. Add more transformations if needed.

Load data in Excel Online

Loading data in Excel Online is similar to loading data into a relational database.

Here's how you can do this:

Step 1. Create a source Connection and a Format (if needed).

Step 2. Create a destination Excel Online Connection.

Step 3. Create a Flow where the destination is a database.

Step 4. Add new source-to-destination transformation.

Step 5. Select FROM and TO Connections and objects (also a FROM Format if needed).

Step 6. Optionally define the per-field Mapping.

Step 7. Add more transformations if needed.

Browse data in Excel Online

You must have an Excel Online Connection to browse objects and run SQL queries.

Use the Etlworks Explorer to browse data and metadata in Excel Online as well as execute DML and SELECT queries against the Excel Online Connection.