Connect to Wave Financial Data in DBArtisan

The CData ODBC Driver for Wave Financial seamlessly integrates Wave Financial data into database management tools like DBArtisan by enabling you to access Wave Financial data as a database. This article shows how to create an data source for Wave Financial in DBArtisan and execute queries. You can then edit data visually and execute standard SQL.

Integrate Wave Financial Data into DBArtisan Projects

If you have not already, first specify 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.

Connect using the API Token

You can connect to Wave Financial by specifying the APIToken You can obtain an API Token using the following steps:

1. Log in to your Wave account and navigate to "Manage Applications" in the left pane.
2. Select the application that you would like to create a token for. You may need to create an application first.
3. Click the "Create token" button to generate an APIToken.

Connect using OAuth

If you wish, you can connect using the embedded OAuth credentials. See the Help documentation for more information.

You can then follow the steps below to register Wave Financial data as a database instance in your project:

1. In DBArtisan, click Data Source -> Register Datasource.
2. Select Generic ODBC.
3. Enter a name for the data source and select the DSN.
4. Finish the wizard to connect to Wave Financial data. Wave Financial entities are displayed in the Datasource Explorer.

You can now work with Wave Financial data as you work with any other database. See the driver help documentation for more information on the queries supported by the Wave Financial API.