Front

The Lyftron Provider for Front offers the most natural way to access Front 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 Front data into easy-to-integrate relational fully managed ANSI Sql format. Make faster and better business decisions with Lyftron’s Front 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 Front.
• Comprehensive full support of ANSI Sql to query data with ease.
• Collaborative query processing.

Prerequisites

The user must have credentials for Front, 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 Front 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 Front 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 Front connection with Lyftron.

Profile=C:\profiles\Front.apip;ProfileSettings='APIKey=[your_apikey]';

 

Profile=C:\profiles\Front.apip;ProfileSettings='InitiateOAuth=GETANDREFRESH;OAuthClientId=your_client_id;OAuthClientSecret=your_client_secret;CallbackUrl=your_callback_url';"

Key	Value	Field
Connection Name	Enter your connection details	Required
Profile	C:\profiles\Front.apip	Required
APIKey	your Front personal_token	Required
Profile	C:\profiles\Front.apip	Required
InitiateOAuth	your Front GETANDREFRESH	Required
OAuthClientId	your Front client_id	Required
OAuthClientSecret	your Front client_secret	Required
CallbackUrl	your Front callback_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 Front connector and can utilize the connector to Extract, Warehouse, Analyze, Visualize and Share your data.

Data Model

The provider models the data in APIs into a list of tables that can be queried using standard SQL statements.

Generally, querying APIs 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
Channels	Tables	Lists all the channels.
Comment	Tables	Fetches the information of a comment.
CommentMentions	Tables	Lists the teammates mentionned in a comment.
ContactConversations	Tables	Lists all the conversations with a contact in reverse chronological order (most recently updated first).
ContactGroups	Tables	Lists all the contact groups.
ContactNotes	Tables	Lists the notes added to a contact.
Contacts	Tables	Lists all the contacts.
ConversationEvents	Tables	List of all the events that occured for a conversation in reverse chronological order (newest first).
ConversationFollowers	Tables	Lists the teammates following a conversation.
ConversationInboxes	Tables	Lists the inboxes in which a conversation appears.
ConversationMessages	Tables	Lists all the messages sent or received in a conversation in reverse chronological order (newest first).
Conversations	Tables	Lists all the conversations.
CustomFields	Tables	List all the custom fields in your company.
Events	Tables	Lists all the detailed events which occured in the inboxes of your company ordered in reverse chronological order (newest first).
Exports	Tables	Lists all the exports generated in your company.
GroupContacts	Tables	Lists all the contacts belonging to the requested group.
InboxChannels	Tables	Lists the channels linked to an inbox.
InboxConversations	Tables	Lists the conversations which appear in an inbox.
Inboxes	Tables	Lists all the inboxes.
InboxTeammates	Tables	Lists the teammates who can access an inbox.
Responses	Tables	Lists the responses in your company.
Rules	Tables	Lists all the rules.
Shifts	Tables	Lists all the shifts.
ShiftTeammates	Tables	Lists the teammates who are assigned to a shift.
TagConversations	Tables	Lists all the conversations tagged with a specific tag.
Tags	Tables	Lists all tags.
Team	Tables	Fetches the details of a team.
TeamChannels	Tables	List the channels of a specific team.
TeamContacts	Tables	List the contacts of a specific team.
TeamInboxes	Tables	List the inboxes of a specific team.
TeammateChannels	Tables	List the channels of a specific teammate.
TeammateContacts	Tables	List the contacts of a specific teammate.
TeammateConversations	Tables	Lists the conversations assigned to a teammate in reverse chronological order (most recently updated first).
TeammateInboxes	Tables	List the inboxes of a specific teammate.
TeammateRules	Tables	Lists the rules of a specific teammate.
Teammates	Tables	Lists the teammates in your company.
TeammateTags	Tables	Lists all tags for a specific teammate.
TeamRules	Tables	Lists the rules of a specific team.
Teams	Tables	List the teams in your company.
TeamTags	Tables	Lists all tags for a specific team.