Analyze WooCommerce Data in Infragistics Reveal

Reveal is a data visualization solution provided by Infragistics and can be paired with the CData API Server and WooCommerce ADO.NET Provider to build dynamic dashboards from live WooCommerce data. The CData API Server generates an OData API for WooCommerce, which is natively consumable in Reveal. In this article, we walk through connecting to WooCommerce in API Server and connecting to the API Server from Infragistics Reveal to create a simple dashboard.

Connect to WooCommerce from API Server

CData API Server uses a straightforward, point-and-click interface to connect to data sources and generate APIs.

1. Open API Server and click Settings -> Connection -> Add Connection
2. Select "WooCommerce"
3. Enter the necessary authentication properties to connect to WooCommerce.

   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 plugin, you may connect to WooCommerce by providing the following connection properties:

   • 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.

   

Add WooCommerce Resource Definitions in API Server

After connecting to WooCommerce, create Resources, which represent API endpoints for WooCommerce data.

1. Click Settings -> Resources -> Add Resource
2. Select the WooCommerce connection
3. Select the table you wish to retrieve and click Next
4. (Optional) Edit the resource to select specific fields and more
5. Save the settings

Add an API Server User

Create a User to connect to WooCommerce from Reveal through API Server.

1. Click Settings -> Users
2. Click Add
3. Configure a User with access to the WooCommerce Connection and Resource(s)

(Optional) Configure Cross-Origin Resource Sharing (CORS)

When accessing and connecting to multiple different domains from an application such as Ajax, there is a possibility of violating the limitations of cross-site scripting. In that case, configure the CORS settings in Settings -> Server.

• Enable cross-origin resource sharing (CORS): ON
• Allow all domains without '*': ON
• Access-Control-Allow-Methods: GET, PUT, POST, OPTIONS
• Access-Control-Allow-Headers: Authorization

Save the changes to the settings.

Create a Dashboard in Reveal

With the API Server configured, we can visualize WooCommerce data in Reveal.

1. Log into Reveal and click Dashboards -> New
2. Click Data Source -> OData Feed
3. Specify the API Server API endpoint URL, for example: https://serverurl/api.rsc
4. Select Generic Credentials and specify the API Server username and authentication token
5. Select the entity you wish to visualize
6. Select fields and choose a chart type

More Information & Free Trial

At this point, you have created a simple dashboard from live WooCommerce data. For more information on creating OData feeds from WooCommerce (and more than 150 other sources), visit the API Server page. Download a free, 30-day trial and start working live WooCommerce data in tools that consume OData APIs.