Connecting Bold BI to Xero WorkflowMax data source

The Bold BI dashboard designer supports connecting Xero WorkflowMax web services through REST API.

Choose Xero WorkflowMax data source

To configure the Xero WorkflowMax data source, follow these steps:

1. Click Data Sources in the configuration panel to add a new data connection.

2. Click CREATE NEW to launch a new connection from the connection panel.

3. Select the Xero WorkflowMax connection in the connection panel.

   

NOTE: You can also create a data source from the home page by clicking the Data Sources menu from the left menu panel and Create Data Source from the data sources page.

Authentication with Xero WorkflowMax

Use the following steps to authenticate with the Xero WorkflowMax web service:

1. Click data source, and you will be prompted with a login window. Enter the credentials of your Xero WorkflowMax account to authorize.

2. Click Allow in the authorization window to accept the scopes requested by the Bold BI dashboards.

   NOTE: If the permission is denied, the account will not be accessible from the dashboard.

3. Set a name to identify the account and click Next.

4. You have now successfully authorized your connection. Click Connect to continue with the data source connection.

5. To connect using the already connected account, refer to the Connected Accounts.

   NOTE: To connect with a new account, click Connect New Account.

Create a Xero WorkflowMax data source

Once you click the data source, the NEW DATA SOURCE configuration panel opens. Follow these steps to create a Xero WorkflowMax data source.

1. Enter a name and description (optional) for the data source.

2. Click the Organizations down drop box and choose the required organization.

3. Click the Resources down drop box and choose the required resource.

4. Click Custom URL to manually enter a URL into the URL textbox. Refer to setting up a custom URL.

5. Select GET method for the REST API in the Method combo box.

6. Choose a time interval for Refresh Settings using the combo box to trigger the Rest API request periodically to keep the data in sync with the Syncfusion dashboard.

7. Select XML data type in the Data Format combo box.

8. The authentication type will be automatically set to the Xero WorkflowMax since the OAuth is used for authenticating with the Xero WorkflowMax account.

   

Edit the connection information set using the [Edit Connection] (/cloud-bi/working-with-data-source/editing-a-data-connection/) option.

Preview and Data Import

• Click Preview & Connect to connect with the configurations set.

• The Choose Table(s) dialog opens. The schema represents the key fields of the JSON data retrieved from the Xero WorkflowMax Rest API request. This dialog displays a list of schemas in treeview and their corresponding values in the grid for preview. Select the required schema(s) from the treeview to use in the designer and click Connect.

  

• Now, the data design view page with the selected table schema opens. Drag from the tree view table in the left pane and drop the table in the Query designer page.

• Click Save to save the data source with a relevant name.

Additional Information

Setting up custom URL

Apart from predefined Xero workflow max resources, import data for custom resources by providing the relevant API. Get the custom Xero workflow max APIs from their documentation Xero WorkflowMax API documentation

1. For instance, to get the specific Lead details, connect to the View Lead endpoint which will return all Lead id and Detailed information for a specific Lead from that result.
2. Change the URL to include the lead id.

https://api.xero.com/workflowmax/3.0/lead.api/get/<:UUID>

For more information on the API endpoints available for this data source, refer to their official API Documentation

Sample queries

All Client

https://api.xero.com/workflowmax/3.0/client.api/list

All Supplier

https://api.xero.com/workflowmax/3.0/supplier.api/list

All Staff

https://api.xero.com/workflowmax/3.0/staff.api/list

All Invoice

https://api.xero.com/workflowmax/3.0/invoice.api/current

Connected accounts for OAuth data sources

The account information will be listed here if you have already logged into the account and authenticated with a web data source. Select one of the accounts or connect to a new account by clicking Connect New Account.

Edit, delete, and re-authorize this account from the Connected Accounts page.

Related links

Data Transformation

Editing a Data Connection

Dashboard Designer Walkthrough