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Extract, Transform, and Load Odoo Data in Informatica PowerCenter
Create a simple Workflow for Odoo data in Informatica PowerCenter.
Informatica provides a powerful, elegant means of transporting and transforming your data. By utilizing the CData ODBC Driver for Odoo, you are gaining access to a driver based on industry-proven standards that integrates seamlessly with Informatica's powerful data transportation and manipulation features. This tutorial shows how to create a simple Workflow in Informatica PowerCenter to extract Odoo data and load it into a flat file.
About Odoo Data Integration
Accessing and integrating live data from Odoo has never been easier with CData. Customers rely on CData connectivity to:
- Access live data from both Odoo API 8.0+ and Odoo.sh Cloud ERP.
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Extend the native Odoo features with intelligent handling of many-to-one, one-to-many, and many-to-many data properties. CData's connectivity solutions also intelligently handle complex data properties within Odoo. In addition to columns with simple values like text and dates, there are also columns that contain multiple values on each row. The driver decodes these kinds of values differently, depending upon the type of column the value comes from:
- Many-to-one columns are references to a single row within another model. Within CData solutions, many-to-one columns are represented as integers, whose value is the ID to which they refer in the other model.
- Many-to-many columns are references to many rows within another model. Within CData solutions, many-to-many columns are represented as text containing a comma-separated list of integers. Each value in that list is the ID of a row that is being referenced.
- One-to-many columns are references to many rows within another model - they are similar to many-to-many columns (comma-separated lists of integers), except that each row in the referenced model must belong to only one in the main model.
- Use SQL stored procedures to call server-side RFCs within Odoo.
Users frequently integrate Odoo with analytics tools such as Power BI and Qlik Sense, and leverage our tools to replicate Odoo data to databases or data warehouses.
Getting Started
Add Odoo as an ODBC Data Source
If you have not already, install the driver on the PowerCenter server and client machines. On both machines, specify the 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.
To connect, set the Url to a valid Odoo site, User and Password to the connection details of the user you are connecting with, and Database to the Odoo database.
Create an ETL Workflow in PowerCenter
Follow the steps below to create a workflow in PowerCenter to pull Odoo data and push it into a flat file.
Create a Source Using the ODBC Driver
- In the powrmart.ini file found in %INFA_HOME%\clients\PowerCenterClient\client\bin, add the following line to the ODBCDLL section:
CData=PMODBC.DLL
- In PowerCenter Workflow Manager, add a new ODBC relational connection, set the user name and password properties to the user for the machine on which the ODBC Driver is installed, and set the connect string to the System DSN for the driver (CData Odoo Sys).
![]( "Create a Relational Connection to the DSN (QuickBooks Online is shown.)")
- In PowerCenter Designer, connect to your repository and open your folder.
- Select the Source Analyzer, click the sources menu, and select Import from Database...
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- In the drop-down menu for ODBC data source, select the DSN you previously configured (CData Odoo Sys).
- Click connect and select the tables and views to include.
- Click OK.
![]( "Select DSN and Tables/Views to Import (QuickBooks Online is shown.)")
Create a Flat File Target Based on the Source
- Select the Targets Analyzer and drag and drop the previously created source onto the workspace. Using the existing source copies the columns into the target.
- Right-click the new target, click edit, and change the database type to flat file.
![]( "Create a Flat File target for the Workflow.")
Create a Mapping to Between Odoo Data and a Flat File
- Click on the Mapping Designer.
- Drag the source and target to the workspace (name the new mapping, if prompted).
![]( "Create a new Mapping.")
- Right-click on the workspace and select Autolink by Name.
- Drag the columns from the source qualifier to the target definition.
![]( "Link columns from source to target.")
- Save the folder (Ctrl + S).
Create Workflow Based on the Mapping
With the source, target, and mapping created and saved, you are now ready to create the workflow.
- Right-click the mapping and select generate workflow to open the Workflow Generation wizard.
- Create a workflow with a non-reusable session.
- Ensure that you have properly configured the connection object (to the relational connection we created earlier) and set the prefixes.
- Configure the Connection as needed.
- Review the Workflow and click Finish.
With a workflow created, you can open the PowerCenter Workflow Manager to access and start the workflow, quickly transferring Odoo data into a flat file. With the ODBC Driver for Odoo, you can configure sources and targets in PowerCenter to integrate Odoo data into any of the elegant and powerful features in Informatica PowerCenter.
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Odoo ODBC Driver
The Odoo ERP ODBC Driver is a powerful tool that allows you to connect with live Odoo ERP data, directly from any applications that support ODBC connectivity.
Access Odoo ERP like you would a database - read, write, and update Sales Orders, Purchase Orders, Accounts, etc. through a standard ODBC Driver interface.
