Overview
The Lyftron Provider for Microsoft OneDrive offers the most natural way to access Microsoft OneDrive data from Lyftron 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 Microsoft OneDrive data into easy-to-integrate relational fully managed ANSI Sql format. Make faster and better business decisions with Lyftron’s Microsoft OneDrive 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 Microsoft OneDrive.
- Comprehensive full support of ANSI Sql to query data with ease.
- Collaborative query processing.
Prerequisites
The user must have credentials for Microsoft OneDrive, Lyftron and your destination data warehouse, lake or database to perform the data pipeline operation with Lyftron
Establishing a Connection with Lyftron's Quickstart Steps
Create your Microsoft OneDrive connection with Lyftron 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 Microsoft OneDrive 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 Microsoft OneDrive connection with Lyftron.
"InitiateOAuth=GETANDREFRESH;OAuthClientId=MyApplicationId;OAuthClientSecret=MySecretKey;OAuthCallbackURL=http://localhost:33333;"| Key | Value | Field |
| Connection Name | Enter your connection details | Required |
| InitiateOAuth | GETANDREFRESH | Required |
| OAuthClientId | Enter Application ID | Required |
| OAuthClientSecret | Enter secret Key | Required |
| OAuthCallbackURL | Enter URL | 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 Lyftron logging and debugging section.
If you want more detailed information about how to establish a connection with Lyftron, click on Lyftron 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 Lyftron logging and debugging section, to debug the error.
Step5. Save your connection
Hurray! Now you have successfully connected with the Lyftron Microsoft OneDrive connector and can utilize the connector to Extract, Warehouse, Analyze, Visualize and Share your data.
Data Model
You can work with all the tables in your account using the provider. The provider connects to Microsoft OneDrive and gets the list of tables and the metadata for the tables by calling the appropriate Web services. Any changes you make to your Microsoft OneDrive account, such as adding a new table, adding new columns, or changing the data type of a column, will immediately be reflected when you connect using the provider.
| Name | Description |
| Drives | The OneDrive view Drives, which lists all the drives the user has access to. |
| Files | The OneDrive table Files in which you can view all the files in a drive. |
| Folders | The OneDrive table Folders, which shows all the folders on a drive. |
| Permissions | The OneDrive table Permissions, which shows all the permissions given to a resource of the drive. |
| SharedResources | The OneDrive table SharedResources, which shows all the shared resources on a drive. |
Advanced Settings
To view a detailed advanced settings options, go to Microsoft OneDrive Advanced Settings. Complete list of the parameters you can configure in the connection string can be found by clicking Connection String Parameters.