Excel Spreadsheet Automation on Oracle SCM Data with the QUERY Formula

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

• Connection: Either the connection name, such as OracleSCMConnection1, or a connection string. The connection string consists of the required properties for connecting to Oracle SCM data, separated by semicolons.

  The following connection properties are required to connect to Oracle SCM data.

  • Url: The URL of the account that you want to connect to. Typically, this will be the URL of your Oracle Cloud service. For example, https://servername.fa.us2.oraclecloud.com.
  • User: The username of your Oracle Cloud service account.
  • Password: The password of your Oracle Cloud service account.
• 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 Oracle SCM data, such as ActiveFlag.
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 Carriers WHERE ActiveFlag = '"&B4&"'","Url="&B1&";User="&B2&";Password="&B3&";Provider=OracleSCM",B5)

👁 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.)