Overview
The Lyftrondata Provider for ClickTime offers the most natural way to access ClickTime data from Lyftrondata with ease and also enables to connect with BI, MDM & ML tools, Data warehouses, Databases and other SAAS based applications with zero code and zero infrastructure requirements. The provider wraps the complexity of accessing ClickTime data into easy-to-integrate relational fully managed ANSI Sql format. Make faster and better business decisions with Lyftrondata’s ClickTime data provider and automatically build your data migration pipelines in minutes, not months
The provider hides the complexity of accessing data and provides additional powerful security features, smart caching, batching, socket management, and more.
Key Features
- Comprehensive Delta load mechanism.
- Real-time access to ClickTime.
- Comprehensive full support of ANSI Sql to query data with ease.
- Collaborative query processing.
Prerequisites
The user must have credentials for ClickTime, Lyftrondata and your destination data warehouse, lake or database to perform the data pipeline operation with Lyftrondata.
Establishing a Connection with Lyftrondata's Quickstart Steps
Create your ClickTime connection with Lyftrondata by following the 5 easy steps show below:
Step1. Add your connection
Click on Connect section on the left panel → Click on Add Connection button
Step2. Select your connector
In the connector selection panel, search and click ClickTime for your connection
Step3. Enter your connection details
In the Connection String section enter the values of the below parameters. The following connection string is required to establish ClickTime connection with Lyftrondata.
"Profile=C:\profiles\ClickTime.apip;ProfileSettings='APIKey=my_api_token';"| Key | Value | Field |
| Connection Name | Enter your connection details | Required |
| Profile | C:\profiles\ClickTime.apip | Required |
| API Key | Your ClickTime API Key | Required |
| API Token | Your ClickTime API Token | Required |
| Logfile** | Use the logfile option to debug your job and provide your connection name to generate the log file. [ConnectionConfigurationPath]\Connection_name_log.tx | Optional |
| Verbosity** | Choose verbosity 1-5 based on the severity of debugging | Optional |
** For more information, check the Lyftrondata logging and debugging section.
If you want more detailed information about how to establish a connection with Lyftrondata, click on Lyftrondata Connection Quick Start guide.
Step4. Test your connection
Once you are done entering your connection details, simply click on the Test Connection button to test the connectivity. In case your connection fails, add Logfile and Verbosity parameters and check the Lyftrondata logging and debugging section, to debug the error.
Step5. Save your connection
Hurray! Now you have successfully connected with the Lyftrondata ClickTime connector and can utilize the connector to Extract, Warehouse, Analyze, Visualize and Share your data.
Data Model
The provider models the data in API into a list of tables that can be queried using standard SQL statements.
Generally, querying API tables is the same as querying a table in a relational database. Sometimes there are special cases, for example, including a certain column in the WHERE clause might be required to get data for certain columns in the table. This is typically needed for situations where a separate request must be made for each row to get certain columns.
| Name | Type | Description |
| Allocations | Tables | Get allocations. |
| Clients | Tables | Get clients. |
| Company | Tables | Get your company. |
| CurrentUser | Tables | Get the current user. |
| CustomMessages | Tables | Get custom messages. |
| Divisions | Tables | Get divisions. |
| EmploymentTypes | Tables | Get Employment Types. |
| HolidayEntries | Tables | Get holiday entries. |
| Jobs | Tables | Get jobs. |
| ManagedDivisions | Tables | Get managed divisions. |
| ManagedTimesheetActions | Tables | Get available actions for a managed timesheet. |
| ManagedTimesheetHistory | Tables | Get a managed timesheet's status history. |
| ManagedTimesheetHolidayEntries | Tables | Get holiday entries for a timesheet for which you are the approver. |
| ManagedTimesheets | Tables | Get managed timesheets. |
| ManagedTimesheetsByDate | Tables | Get a user's timesheet by date. If the timesheet does not exist it will be created. |
| ManagedTimesheetsHolidayEntries | Tables | Get holiday entries for users whose timesheets you approve. |
| ManagedTimesheetsTimeEntries | Tables | Get managed time entries. |
| ManagedTimesheetsTimeOff | Tables | Get time off entries for managed timesheets. |
| ManagedTimesheetTimeOff | Tables | Get time off entries for a managed timesheet. |
| ManagedUsers | Tables | Get the users managed by current user. |
| MyClients | Tables | Get my clients. |
| MyExpenseItems | Tables | Get my expense items. |
| MyExpenseSheetActions | Tables | Get my expense sheet actions. |
| MyExpenseSheets | Tables | Get my expense sheets. |
| MyHolidayEntries | Tables | Get my holiday entries. |
| MyJobs | Tables | Get my jobs. |
| MyJobsTasks | Tables | Get a list of jobs and available tasks I have access to. |
| MyTasks | Tables | Get my tasks. |
| MyTimeEntries | Tables | Get my time entries. |
| MyTimeOff | Tables | Get my time off entries. |
| MyTimeOffTypes | Tables | Get my time off types. |
| MyTimesheetActions | Tables | Get available Actions for my Timesheet by ID |
| MyTimesheetHistory | Tables | Get my Timesheet's status history. |
| MyTimesheets | Tables | Get my timesheets. |
| MyTimesheetsActions | Tables | Get available Actions for my Timesheet by date |
| MyTimesheetsByDate | Tables | Get my timesheets by date. |
| Reports | Tables | Get time entry reporting. |
| Tasks | Tables | Get tasks. |
| TimeEntries | Tables | Get time entries. This table is intended for smaller data set, for example when you're retrieving time entries for a single timesheet period. For larger datasets please use Reports table. |
| TimeOff | Tables | Get time off entries. |
| TimeOffTypes | Tables | Get time off types. |
| TimesheetActions | Tables | Get available actions for a timesheet. |
| TimesheetHistory | Tables | Get a timesheet's status history. |
| TimesheetHolidayEntries | Tables | Get holiday entries for a timesheet. |
| Timesheets | Tables | Get timesheets. |
| TimesheetTimeEntries | Tables | Get a Timesheet's Time Entries. |
| TimesheetTimeOff | Tables | Get a Timesheet's Time Off entries. |
| Users | Tables | Get users. |
| UserTimesheetsByDate | Tables | Get a User's Timesheet by date. If the timesheet does not exist it will be created. |
Advanced Settings
To view a detailed advanced settings options, go to ClickTime Advanced Settings. Complete list of the parameters you can configure in the connection string can be found by clicking Connection String Parameters.