Connection String Options
The connection string properties are the various options that can be used to establish a connection. This section provides a complete list of the options you can configure in the connection string for this provider. Click the links for further details.
| Auth Key | The authentication secret used to request and obtain the OAuth Access Token. |
| Auth Scheme | The scheme used for authentication. Accepted entries are NTLM, BASIC, DIGEST, NONE, NEGOTIATE, or SHAREPOINTONLINE. |
| Auth Token | The authentication token used to request and obtain the OAuth Access Token. |
| Azure AD Tenant | The Azure Active Directory tenant to authenticate against (only used with Azure AD OAuth). |
| Azure Resource | The Azure Active resource to authenticate to (used during Azure OAuth exchange). |
| Azure Tenant | The Microsoft Online tenant being used to access data. If not specified, your default tentant will be used. |
| Callback URL | The OAuth callback URL to return to when authenticating. This value must match the callback URL you specify in your app settings. |
| Continue On Error | Whether or not to continue after encountering an error on a batch request. |
| Cookies | Allows cookies to be manually specified in name=value pairs separated by a semicolon. |
| Custom Headers | Other headers as determined by the user (optional). |
| Custom Url Params | The custom query string to be included in the request. |
| Data Format | The data format to retrieve data in. Select either ATOM or JSON. |
| Firewall Password | A password used to authenticate to a proxy-based firewall. |
| Firewall Port | The TCP port for a proxy-based firewall. |
| Firewall Server | The name or IP address of a proxy-based firewall. |
| Firewall Type | The protocol used by a proxy-based firewall. |
| Firewall User | The user name to use to authenticate with a proxy-based firewall. |
| Include Navigation Parent Columns | Indicates if navigation parent columns should be included on navigation views. |
| Initiate OAuth | Set this property to initiate the process to obtain or refresh the OAuth access token when you connect. |
| Kerberos KDC | The Kerberos Key Distribution Center (KDC) service used to authenticate the user. |
| Kerberos Keytab File | The Keytab file containing your pairs of Kerberos principals and encrypted keys. |
| Kerberos Realm | The Kerberos Realm used to authenticate the user with. |
| Kerberos Service KDC | The Kerberos KDC of the service. |
| Kerberos Service Realm | The Kerberos realm of the service. |
| Kerberos SPN | The service principal name (SPN) for the Kerberos Domain Controller. |
| Kerberos Ticket Cache | The full file path to an MIT Kerberos credential cache file. |
| Location | A path to the directory that contains the schema files defining tables, views, and stored procedures. |
| Log Modules | Core modules to be included in the log file. |
| Max Rows | Limits the number of rows returned rows when no aggregation or group by is used in the query. This helps avoid performance issues at design time. |
| Navigation Properties As Views | A boolean indicating navigation properties should be promoted to full views. |
| OAuth Access Token | The access token for connecting using OAuth. |
| OAuth Access Token Secret | The OAuth access token secret for connecting using OAuth. |
| OAuth Access Token URL | The URL to retrieve the OAuth access token from. |
| OAuth Authorization URL | The authorization URL for the OAuth service. |
| OAuth Client Id | The client ID assigned when you register your application with an OAuth authorization server. |
| OAuth Client Secret | The client secret assigned when you register your application with an OAuth authorization server. |
| OAuth Grant Type | The grant type for the OAuth flow. |
| OAuth Params | A comma-separated list of other parameters to submit in the request for the OAuth access token in the format paramname=value. |
| OAuth Refresh Token | The OAuth refresh token for the corresponding OAuth access token. |
| OAuth Refresh Token URL | The URL to refresh the OAuth token from. |
| OAuth Request Token URL | The URL the service provides to retrieve request tokens from. This is required in OAuth 1.0. |
| OAuth Settings Location | The location of the settings file where OAuth values are saved when InitiateOAuth is set to GETANDREFRESH or REFRESH. Alternatively, this can be held in memory by specifying a value starting with memory://. |
| OAuth Verifier | The verifier code returned from the OAuth authorization URL. |
| OAuth Version | The version of OAuth being used. |
| OData Version | The version of OData to use. By default the provider will attempt to autodetect the version. |
| Other | These hidden properties are used only in specific use cases. |
| Pagesize | The maximum number of results to return per page from OData. |
| Password | The password used to authenticate the user. |
| Proxy Auth Scheme | The authentication type to use to authenticate to the ProxyServer proxy. |
| Proxy Auto Detect | This indicates whether to use the system proxy settings or not. This takes precedence over other proxy settings, so you'll need to set ProxyAutoDetect to FALSE in order use custom proxy settings. |
| Proxy Exceptions | A semicolon separated list of destination hostnames or IPs that are exempt from connecting through the ProxyServer . |
| Proxy Password | A password to be used to authenticate to the ProxyServer proxy. |
| Proxy Port | The TCP port the ProxyServer proxy is running on. |
| Proxy Server | The hostname or IP address of a proxy to route HTTP traffic through. |
| Proxy SSL Type | The SSL type to use when connecting to the ProxyServer proxy. |
| Proxy User | A user name to be used to authenticate to the ProxyServer proxy. |
| Readonly | You can use this property to enforce read-only access to OData from the provider. |
| Server Time Zone | The timezone by which the server's Edm.DateTime values are represented. The value of this property will affect how Edm.DateTime filters and results are converted between the server and the client machine. |
| Share Point SSO Domain | The domain of the user when using single sign-on (SSO). |
| Share Point Use SSO | Whether or not to use single sign-on (SSO) to authenticate to SharePoint Online. |
| SSL Client Cert | The TLS/SSL client certificate store for SSL Client Authentication (2-way SSL). |
| SSL Client Cert Password | The password for the TLS/SSL client certificate. |
| SSL Client Cert Subject | The subject of the TLS/SSL client certificate. |
| SSL Client Cert Type | The type of key store containing the TLS/SSL client certificate. |
| SSL Server Cert | The certificate to be accepted from the server when connecting using TLS/SSL. |
| Stored Procedures As Views | A boolean indicating if we should list stored procedures which return a collection of entities as views. |
| Supports Expand | Whether you need to specify the base entity's key to query navigation property views. |
| Supports Formulas | A boolean indicating if the odata service supports server side formulas. |
| Timeout | The value in seconds until the timeout error is thrown, canceling the operation. |
| URL | URL to the Organization root or the OData services file. For example, http://MySite/MyOrganization. |
| Use Client Side Paging | Whether or not the CData ADO.NET Provider for OData should use client side paging. |
| Use Etags | Whether or not the OData source uses Etags. |
| User | The OData user account used to authenticate. |
| Use Simple Names | Boolean determining if simple names should be used for tables and columns. |