How do I connect Visual Studio Connector to Teamleader Orbit regular API in 5 minutes?

Execute the following steps to connect Visual Studio Connector to Teamleader Orbit regular API. You only need knowledge of Visual Studio Connector, your own business and the Teamleader Orbit regular API administration.

Teamleader Orbit is a cloud solution for project management. Teamleader Orbit includes CRM as well as project and time registration.

No technical knowledge is needed nor knowledge on the Teamleader Orbit regular API APIs to connect Teamleader Orbit regular API to Visual Studio Connector. This step-by-step plan will tell you exactly which steps you need to go through on Invantive Cloud to create your own Azure data warehouse with data from Teamleader Orbit regular API.

The steps to connect Visual Studio Connector to Teamleader Orbit regular API are:

1. Register an Invantive Cloud account.
2. Create a Teamleader Orbit regular API database.
3. Make the Teamleader Orbit regular API database available through the Microsoft OData connector.
4. Connect Visual Studio Connector to Teamleader Orbit regular API through the connector.
5. Load data from Teamleader Orbit regular API into Visual Studio Connector data warehouse.

Invantive Cloud offers a Teamleader Orbit regular API connector to download data from Teamleader Orbit regular API into Visual Studio Connector, but there are over 75 other connectors available also for SQL, Power BI Desktop, Power BI Service, Power Query and/or Azure Data Factory.

With the Teamleader Orbit regular API connector for Visual Studio Connector you will by default fetch the data from all connected Teamleader Orbit regular API companies in your dashboard. You can limit the number of Teamleader Orbit regular API companies that are retrieved in Visual Studio Connector through the Database settings. For example, you can also limit the connector for Visual Studio Connector to the data from exactly one Teamleader Orbit regular API company. Of course, you can also filter the data by a specific Teamleader Orbit regular API company using a filter step in Visual Studio Connector. The Teamleader Orbit regular API connector for Visual Studio Connector has advanced optimizations for great real-time performance with both a single Teamleader Orbit regular API company as well as with hundreds of Teamleader Orbit regular API companies.

When you are having questions, please check the forums for Teamleader Orbit regular API. Every organisation is entitled to 1 hour of free training to help you get started. This free hour also applies to free plans.

Register Account on Invantive Cloud

Skip this step when you already have an account on Invantive Cloud. Otherwise execute the following steps one time to register an account on Invantive Cloud:

1. Go to Invantive Cloud start page.

2. Select the Log on-button.

3. Select the Sign Up-button.

4. Enter your business email address.

5. Select the Next-button.

6. Enter your personal data.

7. Select the Next-button.

8. Enter your password and repeat the provided password.

9. Select the Next-button.

10. You will receive a six-digit verification code by email within 2 minutes.

11. Enter the six-digit verification code.

12. Select the Sign Up-button.

13. Log on now. >

14. Make sure you have an authentication app installed on your phone. Select the Next-button.

15. Add the displayed QR code to the authentication app, enter the current verification code, and choose "Finish".

16. Skip registration of the organization.

17. Complete your personal data and choose 'Save'.

18. Go to the dashboard.

19. The Invantive Cloud dashboard will be shown.

You now have a login code on Invantive Cloud with which you can set up the connection with Teamleader Orbit regular API and numerous other platforms. You will use the same Invantive login code and workflow for all other platforms.

Create Teamleader Orbit regular API database

In this step, we set up a database with data from Teamleader Orbit regular API. The database is "virtual" because it is not a traditional database, but is fed real-time from Teamleader Orbit regular API. Invantive Cloud provides Visual Studio Connector with a real-time link to Teamleader Orbit regular API. The database will be used for all your Teamleader Orbit regular API reporting with Visual Studio Connector. So you only need to perform these steps once.

1. Click the Add Database button.

2. Select Teamleader Orbit regular API from the list.

3. Please fill out the form with login information for Teamleader Orbit regular API.

4. Select the OK-button.

Congratulations! You can now process data from Teamleader Orbit regular API within the Invantive Cloud website. You can do this for example with the interactive SQL editor.

Grant connection from Visual Studio Connector access to Teamleader Orbit regular API

To retrieve the data from Visual Studio Connector we create a link via Invantive Bridge Online. This creates a "bridge" between the cloud of Invantive and the standard OData connector that is available in every version of Visual Studio Connector. You do not need to install anything locally: no connector, no ado.NET provider and no Visual Studio Connector add-on neither.

Execute the following steps to safely use the data from Teamleader Orbit regular API outside of Invantive Cloud:

1. Next to the database you will find an orange text requesting you to allow access from your current location (IP address). Select the nearby orange button.

2. You must completely disable IP address checking by entering an asterisk ("*") since Microsoft Visual Studio Connector consists of hundreds of thousands of servers across the globe.

You are now ready to import the Teamleader Orbit regular API data into Visual Studio Connector.

Configure Visual Studio Connector connector for Teamleader Orbit regular API

You will now pull in Visual Studio Connector data from Teamleader Orbit regular API through the established link.

Please note again that Invantive Cloud under the hood handles all complexity such as setting up credentials such as a refresh token, acquiring an access token, optimizing and parallelizing access, accessing an API within the rate limits, scopes and security restrictions. There is absolutely no need for knowledge on complex technical topics such as OAuth access tokens or API. The Microsoft Azure Data Factory steps, activities and pipelines can be constructed using just the OData feed and basic authentication.

Execute the following steps:

1. Start Microsoft Visual Studio Connector and select 'Ingest'.

2. Select 'Built-in copy task'.

3. Select source type 'OData' and select 'New connection'.

4. Enter in the window the Bridge Online URL of the Visual Studio Connector database. This URL containing the data can be found in the Database-form of Invantive Cloud. Choose authentication type 'Basic authentication'. Enter the Invantive Cloud user name and password.

5. The list of available Teamleader Orbit regular API tables appears. Select the desired tables and construct your pipeline in Microsoft Azure Data Factory.