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The OData Excel Add-In is a powerful tool that allows you to connect with live OData services directly from Microsoft Excel.

Use Excel to search, aggregate, read, write, and update live OData feeds directly. Perfect for mass imports / exports / updates, data cleansing & de-duplication, Excel based data analysis, and more!

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Excel Spreadsheet Automation with the QUERY Formula


Pull data, automate spreadsheets, and more with the QUERY formula.

The CData Excel Add-In for OData provides formulas that can edit, save, and delete OData data. The following three steps show how you can automate the following task: Search OData services for a user-specified value and then organize the results into an Excel spreadsheet.

The syntax of the CDATAQUERY formula is the following: =CDATAQUERY(Query, [Connection], [Parameters], [ResultLocation]);

This formula requires three inputs:

  • Query: The declaration of the OData services records you want to retrieve or the modifications to be made, written in standard SQL.

  • Connection: Either the connection name, such as ODataConnection1, or a connection string. The connection string consists of the required properties for connecting to OData services, separated by semicolons.

    The User and Password properties, under the Authentication section, must be set to valid OData user credentials. In addition, you will need to specify a URL to a valid OData server organization root or OData services file.

  • ResultLocation: The cell that the output of results should start from.

Pass Spreadsheet Cells as Inputs to the Query

The procedure below results in a spreadsheet that organizes all the formula inputs in the first column.

  1. Define cells for the formula inputs. In addition to the connection inputs, add another input to define a criterion for a filter to be used to search OData services, such as ShipCity.
  2. In another cell, write the formula, referencing the cell values from the user input cells defined above. Single quotes are used to enclose values such as addresses that may contain spaces.
    3. =CDATAQUERY("SELECT * FROM Orders WHERE ShipCity = '"&B5&"'","URL="&B1&";UseIdUrl="&B2&";OData Version="&B3&";Data Format="&B4&";Provider=OData",B6)
  3. Change the filter to change the data.