Connect to Egnyte Data in DBArtisan

The CData ODBC Driver for Egnyte seamlessly integrates Egnyte data into database management tools like DBArtisan by enabling you to access Egnyte data as a database. This article shows how to create an data source for Egnyte in DBArtisan and execute queries. You can then edit data visually and execute standard SQL.

Integrate Egnyte Data into DBArtisan Projects

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.

Start by setting the Profile connection property to the location of the Egnyte Profile on disk (e.g. C:\profiles\Egnyte.apip). Next, set the ProfileSettings connection property to the connection string for Egnyte (see below).

Egnyte API Profile Settings

Register a developer account with Egnyte and create an OAuth application to receive a Client ID and Secret. Your domain is extracted from your Egnyte URL.

You can then follow the steps below to register Egnyte data as a database instance in your project:

1. In DBArtisan, click Data Source -> Register Datasource.
2. Select Generic ODBC.
3. Enter a name for the data source and select the DSN. 👁 The DSN of the data source to be registered. (Salesforce is shown.)
   
4. Finish the wizard to connect to Egnyte data. Egnyte entities are displayed in the Datasource Explorer. 👁 The Datasource Explorer. (Salesforce is shown.)
   

You can now work with Egnyte data as you work with any other database. See the driver help documentation for more information on the queries supported by the Egnyte API.