Smartsheet

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

Prerequisites

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

InitiateOAuth=GETANDREFRESH;OAuthClientId=[your_OAuthClientId];OAuthClientSecret=[your_OAuthClientSecret];CallbackURL=[your_URl];

 

Key	Value	Field
Connection Name	Enter your connection details	Required
InitiateOAuth	GETANDREFRESH	Required
OAuthClientId	My OAuthClientId	Required
OAuthClientSecret	My OAuthClientSecret	Required
CallbackUrl	Your 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 Smartsheet connector and can utilize the connector to Extract, Warehouse, Analyze, Visualize and Share your data.

Data Model

The Lyftron Provider for Smartsheet models entities in the Smartsheet API as tables, views, and stored procedures. These are defined in schema files, which are simple, text-based configuration files.

API limitations and requirements are documented in this section; you can use the SupportEnhancedSQL feature, set by default, to circumvent most of these limitations.

Tables

The Lyftron Provider for Smartsheet models Item Listings in tables so that they can be easily queried, updated, and deleted. You can list items on your Smartsheet store by calling the AddItem stored procedure.

Views

Views are tables that cannot be modified. Typically, read-only data are shown as views.

Name	Type	Description
Info_Attachments	Tables	Query Smartsheet Attachments. Attachments can exist on a Comment (i.e., within a Discussion), on a Row, or on a Sheet.
Info_CellHistory	Views	Query the available CellHistory of a Cell in Smartsheet.
Info_Cells	Views	Query Smartsheet Cells. A collection of Cells comprises each Row in a Sheet.
Info_Columns	Views	Query Smartsheet Columns in a Sheet or Report.
Info_Comments	Views	Query Smartsheet Comments in a Discussion.
Info_Contacts	Views	Query Smartsheet Contacts. A Contact is the personal contact of a User in Smartsheet.
Info_Discussions	Views	Query Smartsheet Discussions. A Discussion is a collection of one or more Comments. A Discussion can exist on a Row or a Sheet.
Info_Favorites	Views	Query Smartsheet Favorites.
Info_Folders	Views	Query Smartsheet Folders in the Sheets Folder for the User, in another Folder, or in a Workspace.
Info_Groups	Views	Query Smartsheet Groups.
Info_Home	Views	Query objects on the Home tab in Smartsheet. The Home tab shows all objects a User has access to.
Info_Reports	Views	Query Smartsheet Reports.
Info_Rows	Views	Query Rows in a Sheet or Report. Each Row is composed of a collection of Cells, and may optionally contain Discussions and Attachments.
Info_ServerInformation	Views	Query Smartsheet Server Information including application constants.
Info_Shares	Views	Query the Sharing operations of Reports, Sheets, and Workspaces.
Info_Sheets	Views	Query Smartsheets Sheets. A Sheet can exist in the Sheets folder for the user (Home), in a Folder, or in a Workspace. It is comprised of Columns, Rows, and Cells, and may optionally contain Attachments and Discussions.
Info_Templates	Views	Query Smartsheet Templates.
Info_Users	Views	Query the Users in the organization.
Info_Workspaces	Views	Query Smartsheet Workspaces.

 

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