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The FreshBooks ODBC Driver is a powerful tool that allows you to connect with live data from FreshBooks, directly from any applications that support ODBC connectivity.

Access FreshBooks data like you would a database - read, write, and update FreshBooks Customers, Transactions, Invoices, Sales Receipts, etc. through a standard ODBC Driver interface.

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Connect to FreshBooks Data from PowerBuilder


This article demonstrates how to use the CData ODBC Driver for FreshBooks to connect to FreshBooks data and execute queries in PowerBuilder.

The CData ODBC Driver for FreshBooks can be used from any platform or development technology that supports ODBC, including PowerBuilder. This article shows how to connect to FreshBooks data and execute queries from the Database Painter and controls such as the DataWindow.

Connect to FreshBooks as an ODBC Data Source

If you have not already, first specify connection properties in an ODBC DSN (data source name). This is the last step of the driver installation. You can use the Microsoft ODBC Data Source Administrator to create and configure ODBC DSNs.

To connect to FreshBooks, you can set the CompanyName and Token connection properties. Alternatively, you can use the OAuth authentication standard.

OAuth can be used to enable other users to access their own company data. To authenticate using OAuth, you will need to obtain the OAuthClientId and OAuthClientSecret by registering an app. See the "Getting Started" chapter of the help documentation for a guide to using OAuth.

Create a Profile for the ODBC Driver for FreshBooks

Follow the steps below to use the Database Painter tool to create a database profile based on an ODBC DSN (data source name) for FreshBooks. In the Database Painter, you can use wizards and the UI to work with FreshBooks data.

  1. In PowerBuilder, click Tools -> Database Painter.
  2. In the Objects window in the Database Painter, right-click the ODBC node and click New Profile.
  3. On the Connection tab, enter a name for the profile and select the FreshBooks DSN in the Data Source menu.
  4. To view and modify a table, right-click a table and then click Edit Data -> Grid.

Using FreshBooks Data with PowerBuilder Controls

You can use standard PowerBuilder objects to connect to ODBC data sources and execute queries. The following example shows how to retrieve FreshBooks data into a DataWindow. You can add the following code to the open method:

SQLCA.DBMS = "ODBC" SQLCA.DBParm = "ConnectString='DSN=CData FreshBooks Source'" CONNECT USING SQLCA; dw_clients.SetTransObject(SQLCA); dw_clients.Retrieve();