Access Live Adobe Commerce Data in Excel (Desktop)

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

CData Connect Cloud provides a pure cloud-to-cloud interface for Adobe Commerce, allowing you to easily access live Adobe Commerce data in Excel for the web. Simply use the Connect Cloud Add-In to query live data (or write your own). Using optimized data processing out of the box, CData Connect Cloud pushes all supported query operations (filters, JOINs, etc) directly to Adobe Commerce, leveraging server-side processing to quickly return Adobe Commerce data.

Configure Adobe Commerce Connectivity for Excel

Connectivity to Adobe Commerce from Excel is made possible through CData Connect Cloud. To work with Adobe Commerce data from Excel, we start by creating and configuring a Adobe Commerce connection.

1. Log into Connect Cloud, click Connections and click Add Connection
2. Select "Adobe Commerce" from the Add Connection panel
3. Enter the necessary authentication properties to connect to Adobe Commerce.

   Adobe Commerce uses the OAuth 1 authentication standard. To connect to the Adobe Commerce REST API, you will need to obtain values for the OAuthClientId, OAuthClientSecret, and CallbackURL connection properties by registering an app with your Adobe Commerce system. See the "Getting Started" section in the help documentation for a guide to obtaining the OAuth values and connecting.

   You will also need to provide the URL to your Adobe Commerce system. The URL depends on whether you are using the Adobe Commerce REST API as a customer or administrator.

   • Customer: To use Adobe Commerce as a customer, make sure you have created a customer account in the Adobe Commerce homepage. To do so, click Account -> Register. You can then set the URL connection property to the endpoint of your Adobe Commerce system.

   • Administrator: To access Adobe Commerce as an administrator, set CustomAdminPath instead. This value can be obtained in the Advanced settings in the Admin menu, which can be accessed by selecting System -> Configuration -> Advanced -> Admin -> Admin Base URL.

     If the Use Custom Admin Path setting on this page is set to YES, the value is inside the Custom Admin Path text box; otherwise, set the CustomAdminPath connection property to the default value, which is "admin".

4. Click Create & Test
5. Navigate to the Permissions tab in the Add Adobe Commerce Connection page and update the User-based permissions.

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

Access Live Adobe Commerce Data in Excel

The steps below outline connecting to CData Connect Cloud from Excel to access live Adobe Commerce 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 CData Connect Cloud Add-In and install the Add-in.
4. Click Data and open the CData Connect Cloud Add-In.
5. In the Add-In panel, click Authorize to authenticate with your CData Connect Cloud instance
6. In the CData Connect Cloud panel in Excel, click Import
7. Choose a Connection (e.g. Adobe Commerce1), Table (e.g. Products), and Columns to import
8. Optionally add Filters, Sorting, and a Limit
9. Click Execute to import the data

Update Adobe Commerce Data from Excel

In addition to viewing Adobe Commerce data in Excel, CData Connect Cloud also lets you update and delete Adobe Commerce data. Begin by importing data (as described above).

1. Update any cell or cells with changes you want to push to Adobe Commerce (your changes will be in red)
2. In the CData Connect Cloud Add-In panel, select Update
3. Optionally highlight the cell(s) you wish to update and select an update option ("Update All" or "Update Selected")
4. Click Execute to push the updates to Adobe Commerce

A notification will appear when the update is complete

Live Access to Adobe Commerce Data from Cloud Applications

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

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