Excel Spreadsheet Automation on WooCommerce Data with the QUERY Formula

The CData Excel Add-In for WooCommerce provides formulas that can edit, save, and delete WooCommerce data. The following three steps show how you can automate the following task: Search WooCommerce 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 WooCommerce data records you want to retrieve or the modifications to be made, written in standard SQL.

• Connection: Either the connection name, such as WooCommerceConnection1, or a connection string. The connection string consists of the required properties for connecting to WooCommerce data, separated by semicolons.

  WooCommerce supports the following authentication methods: one-legged OAuth1.0 Authentication and standard OAuth2.0 Authentication.

  Connecting using one-legged OAuth 1.0 Authentication

  Specify the following properties (NOTE: the below credentials are generated from WooCommerce settings page and should not be confused with the credentials generated by using WordPress OAuth2.0 plugin):

  • ConsumerKey
  • ConsumerSecret

  Connecting using WordPress OAuth 2.0 Authentication

  After having configured the

  • OAuthClientId
  • OAuthClientSecret
  • CallbackURL
  • InitiateOAuth - Set this to either GETANDREFRESH or REFRESH

  In either case, set the Url property to the URL of the WooCommerce instance.

• 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 WooCommerce data, such as ParentId.
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 Orders WHERE ParentId = '"&B5&"'","Url="&B1&";ConsumerKey="&B2&";ConsumerSecret="&B3&";InitiateOAuth="&B4&";Provider=WooCommerce",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.)