Access Live Bullhorn CRM Data in Excel (Desktop) via Connect AI

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 AI, you gain immediate access to Bullhorn CRM data directly within Excel, facilitating data analysis, collaboration, calculations, and more.This article shows how to connect to Bullhorn CRM in your Connect AI instance and access and update live Bullhorn CRM data in Excel spreadsheets.

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

Configure Bullhorn CRM Connectivity for Excel

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

1. Log into Connect AI, click Sources, and then click Add Connection
👁 Adding a Connection

2. Select "Bullhorn CRM" from the Add Connection panel
👁 Selecting a data source

3. Enter the necessary authentication properties to connect to Bullhorn CRM.

   Begin by providing your Bullhorn CRM account credentials in the following:

   • DataCenterCode: Set this to the data center code which responds to your data center. Refer to the list of data-center-specific Bullhorn API URLs: https://bullhorn.github.io/Data-Center-URLs/

   If you are uncertain about your data center code, codes like CLS2, CLS21, etc. are cluster IDs that are contained in a user's browser URL (address bar) once they are logged in.

   Example: https://cls21.bullhornstaffing.com/BullhornSTAFFING/MainFrame.jsp?#no-ba... indicates that the logged in user is on CLS21.

   Authenticating with OAuth

   Bullhorn CRM uses the OAuth 2.0 authentication standard. To authenticate using OAuth, create and configure a custom OAuth app. See the Help documentation for more information.

   👁 Configuring a connection (Salesforce is shown)
   
4. Click Save & Test
5. Navigate to the Permissions tab in the Add Bullhorn CRM Connection page and update the User-based permissions. 👁 Updating permissions
   

With the connection configured, you are ready to connect to Bullhorn CRM data from Excel.

Access Live Bullhorn CRM Data in Excel

The steps below outline connecting to CData Connect AI from Excel to access live Bullhorn CRM 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 AI Add-In and install the Add-in. 👁 Install the Add-In
   
4. Click Data and open the CData Connect AI Add-In.
5. In the Add-In panel, click Authorize to authenticate with your CData Connect AI instance 👁 Authorizing the Add-In
   
6. In the CData Connect AI panel in Excel, click Import 👁 CData Connect AI panel in Excel
   
7. Choose a Connection (e.g. BullhornCRM1), Table (e.g. Candidate), and Columns to import 👁 CData Connect AI panel in Excel
   
8. Optionally add Filters, Sorting, and a Limit 👁 Choosing a Connection, Table, and Columns
   
9. Click Execute to import the data 👁 Executing the Query
   

Update Bullhorn CRM Data from Excel

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

1. Update any cell or cells with changes you want to push to Bullhorn CRM (your changes will be in red)
2. In the CData Connect AI 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") 👁 Executing the update (Salesforce is shown).
   
4. Click Execute to push the updates to Bullhorn CRM, and a notification will appear when the update is complete

Live Access to Bullhorn CRM Data from Cloud Applications

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

👁 Imported data (Salesforce is shown)


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