

When you configure the DSN, you may also want to set the Max Rows connection property. If you are connecting to SharePoint Online, set the SharePointEdition to SHAREPOINTONLINE along with the User and Password connection string properties.įor more details on connecting to SharePoint Online, see the "Getting Started" chapter of the help documentation The User and Password properties, under the Authentication section, must be set to valid SharePoint userĬredentials when using SharePoint On-Premise. This allows you to query any lists and other SharePoint entities defined for the site or sub-site. Set the URL property to the base SharePoint site or to a sub-site. Modifying iODBC's system-wide settings requires elevated permissions to do so, you can use following to open a text editor from the terminal: You can find the correct odbc.ini in the following paths: System data sources can be accessed by all users. User data sources can only be accessed by the user account whose home folder the odbc.ini is located in. You can define ODBC data sources in sections in the odbc.ini file. To activate a trial license, omit the key input.Ĭd "/Applications/CData ODBC Driver for SharePoint/bin" In a terminal run the following commands to license the driver. This makes the driver easy to use with these tools. The CData ODBC Driver for SharePoint is preconfigured for the iODBC driver manager, as are many other products like Microsoft Excel.
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Installing the CData ODBC Drivers on Mac OS X This article walks through creating a DSN for SharePoint data in iODBC and accessing SharePoint data in Microsoft Excel, all on a machine running Mac OS X.

Microsoft Excel features calculations, graphing tools, pivot tables, and a macro programming language that allows users to work with data in many of the ways that suit their needs, whether on a Windows machine or a Macintosh machine.
