ETL+ for OData

DataSelf uses the OData protocol for Acumatica and supports OData for other data sources.
See also ETL+ for Acumatica Cloud (OData)

OData (Open Data Protocol) is an ISO/IEC approved, OASIS standard that defines a set of best practices for building and consuming RESTful APIs. – odata.org

Installation Checklist

Connecting to OData

Connecting to source data stored on an OData source.

If you haven’t installed ETL+ yet: ETL+ Deployment Instructions.
Login to ETL+ (help here).
Adding a new OData source: On ETL page’s left panel, click Add Source -> OData.
Maintaining an OData source: On ETL page’s left panel, right-click the OData source → Properties.
On the OData page:
- Alias is automatically populated, but you can customize it.
- Odata feed (URL). Enter the OData URL.
- User and Password. Enter the username and password.
- Authentication. Select an option such as Basic.
- Extraction blocks: By default, leave it at 5000 records.
- Pause: By default, leave it at 500ms.

g.Click Connect.

You’ll get back to the ETL page and see tables under the OData source on the left panel.

Mapping and Loading Tables

To view tables available from your OData source on the left panel, right-click the Source source → Refresh.
To map a OData source table to the data warehouse, double-click its name on the left panel, or right-click on it → Add Table.
- You’ll now see the table added/mapped to the center panel.
To preview its data, right-click the table on the center panel → Preview.
To load its data to the data warehouse, right-click the table on the center panel → Load Now.
Click the Log icon (top right) to view data load results. Log page help here.

Schedule the Data Load

On the ETL main page, click Job (top right icon on the center panel).
Select a Job or create a new one to load your OData data on a schedule (help here) → on the right panel, be sure the OData tables to load have their boxes checked and in the desired load order.
To load them now, click the Run Job Now (play icon) on the left panel for the desired Job.
To schedule the data load:
- Click WTS Settings -> enter the WTS parameters → Apply.
- This step might require you to run ETL+ app as “Run as administrator” in Windows.
Click Close -> Close.

Testing

After ETL+ has loaded your OData tables, this is to check if the data extraction process finished successfully and row count per extracted table matches with your OData tables.

Steps

Login to ETL+ (help here).
On the ETL main page, click the top-right Log icon. Log page help here.
Scroll down on the log page and double-check that no table load failed, and the row count matches with the source OData tables. Following is an example highlighting two tables from a sample OData source and their loaded row count.

Related Pages

ETL+ for Acumatica Cloud (OData)