Pipe SAP Business One Data to CSV in PowerShell

The CData Cmdlets Module for SAP Business One is a standard PowerShell module offering straightforward integration with SAP Business One. Below, you will find examples of using our SAPBusinessOne Cmdlets with native PowerShell cmdlets.

Creating a Connection to Your SAP Business One Data

To authenticate to SAP Business One you must provide the Userand Passwordproperties.

To connect to data, specify Url. This is your SAP Business One Service Layer root URL.

$conn = Connect-SAPBusinessOne  -Url "$Url" -User "$User" -Password "$Password" -CompanyDB "$CompanyDB"

Selecting Data

Follow the steps below to retrieve data from the Orders table and pipe the result into to a CSV file:

Select-SAPBusinessOne -Connection $conn -Table Orders | Select -Property * -ExcludeProperty Connection,Table,Columns | Export-Csv -Path c:\myOrdersData.csv -NoTypeInformation

You will notice that we piped the results from Select-SAPBusinessOne into a Select-Object cmdlet and excluded some properties before piping them into an Export-Csv cmdlet. We do this because the CData Cmdlets append Connection, Table, and Columns information onto each "row" in the result set, and we do not necessarily want that information in our CSV file.

Deleting Data

The following line deletes any records that match the criteria:

Select-SAPBusinessOne -Connection $conn -Table Orders -Where "DocType = dDocument_Items" | Remove-SAPBusinessOne

Inserting and Updating Data

The cmdlets make data transformation easy as well as data cleansing. The following example loads data from a CSV file into SAP Business One, checking first whether a record already exists and needs to be updated instead of inserted.

Import-Csv -Path C:\MyOrdersUpdates.csv | %{
  $record = Select-SAPBusinessOne -Connection $SAPBusinessOne -Table Orders -Where ("Id = `'"+$_.Id+"`'")
  if($record){
    Update-SAPBusinessOne -Connection $sapbusinessone -Table Orders -Columns ("DocEntry","DocType") -Values ($_.DocEntry, $_.DocType) -Where ("Id = `'"+$_.Id+"`'")
  }else{
    Add-SAPBusinessOne -Connection $sapbusinessone -Table Orders -Columns ("DocEntry","DocType") -Values ($_.DocEntry, $_.DocType)
  }
}

As always, our goal is to simplify the way you connect to data. With cmdlets users can install a data module, set the connection properties, and start building. Download Cmdlets and start working with your data in PowerShell today!