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⇱ Connect to Smartsheet from Asprova with CData ODBC Driver for Smartsheet

Connect to Smartsheet from Asprova with CData ODBC Driver for Smartsheet

👁 Jerod Johnson
Jerod Johnson
Director, Technology Evangelism
This article shows how to connect faster to Smartsheet data from Asprova.

The CData ODBC driver for Smartsheet enables you to access Smartsheet data from Asprova. In this article, you will import Smartsheet data into item data in Asprova as an example.

About Smartsheet Data Integration

CData provides the easiest way to access and integrate live data from Smartsheet. Customers use CData connectivity to:

  • Read and write attachments, columns, comments and discussions.
  • View the data in individuals cells, report on cell history, and more.
  • Perform Smartsheet-specific actions like deleting or downloading attachments, creating, copying, deleting, or moving sheets, and moving or copying rows to another sheet.

Users frequently integrate Smartsheet with analytics tools such as Tableau, Crystal Reports, and Excel. Others leverage our tools to replicate Smartsheet data to databases or data warehouses.


Getting Started


Asprova setting

  1. Click File -> Data I/O Settings.

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  2. Double click the header of Item and open the Edit I/O dialog.

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  3. Select "No" from the RDB transaction combo box and close the dialog.

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Data driver setting

  1. Select "OLE DB" from combo box in "Data source" column.

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  2. Click button in Folder/database column and open the Data Link Property dialog. Select "Microsoft OLE DB Provider for ODBC Drivers" from the list of data provider.

  3. Select the Connection tab. Check "Use data source name" and select "CData Smartsheet Source" from DSN combo box.

  4. Click the Test Connection button and make sure you see the message "Connection successful".

Schema setting

  1. Click the button in "External table name" column and open the Table List dialog. Make sure tables in Smartsheet are listed in the dialog.

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  2. Click the button in "Field mapping" column and open the Item-Field Mapping dialog.

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  3. Open the context menu in the space between tables and click Delete All. Link corresponding fields by dragging mouse.

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  4. Click File > Import and data will be imported into Asprova.

Check data

Click Table View > Item. Be sure you can see the item data stored in Smartsheet.

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Smartsheet ODBC Driver

The Smartsheet ODBC Driver is a powerful tool that allows you to connect with live data from Smartsheet, directly from any applications that support ODBC connectivity.

Access Smartsheet Sheets, Contacts, Folders, Groups, Users, etc. through a standard ODBC Driver interface.