Excel Spreadsheet Automation on MailerSend Data with the QUERY Formula

The CData Excel Add-In for MailerSend provides formulas that can query MailerSend data. The following three steps show how you can automate the following task: Search MailerSend data 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 MailerSend data records you want to retrieve, written in standard SQL.

• Connection: Either the connection name, such as APIConnection1, or a connection string. The connection string consists of the required properties for connecting to MailerSend data, separated by semicolons.

  The MailerSend API uses API Key authentication via a Bearer token in the Authorization request header.

  Using API Key Authentication

  Your MailerSend API token is required to create a connection. To obtain your API token:

  1. Log into your MailerSend account at app.mailersend.com.
  2. Navigate to Settings > API Tokens in your account dashboard.
  3. Click Generate new token, provide a name and select the appropriate permissions.
  4. Copy the generated API token.

  After obtaining your API token, set the following connection properties:

  • AuthScheme: Set this to APIKey.
  • APIKey: Set this to your MailerSend API token.

  Example connection string:

  Profile=C:\profiles\Mailersend.apip;AuthScheme=APIKey;ProfileSettings='APIKey=your_api_token';
  

• 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 MailerSend data, such as DomainId.
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.

=CDATAQUERY("SELECT * FROM Activity WHERE DomainId = '"&B5&"'","Profile="&B1&";AuthScheme="&B2&";ProfileSettings="&B3&";Provider=API",B6)

👁 Formula inputs used in this example. (Google Apps is shown.)

3. Change the filter to change the data. 👁 The outputs of the formula. (Google Apps is shown.)