Using the Monday.com Connection Manager
The Monday.com Connection Manager is an SSIS connection manager component that can be used to establish connections with Monday.com.
To add a Monday.com connection to your SSIS package, right-click the Connection Manager area in your Visual Studio project, and choose "New Connection.." from the context menu. You will be prompted the "Add SSIS Connection Manager" window. Select the "Monday.com" item to add the new Monday.com connection manager.
The Monday.com Connection Manager contains the following two pages which configures how you want to connect to Monday.com.
- General
- Advanced Settings
General Page
The General page on the Monday.com Connection Manager allows you to specify general settings for the connection.
- Authentication
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- Authentication Mode: API Token
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- API Token
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Set the API Token provided by the Monday.com service.
- API Version
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Displays the Monday.com available version in a dropdown.
- Authentication Mode: OAuth
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- Generate Token File
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This button will open a dialog in order to generate a new Token file
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- App Info
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- Client ID
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The Client Id option allows you to specify the unique ID which identifies the application making the request.
- Client Secret
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The Client Secret option allows you to specify the client secret belonging to your app.
- Redirect URI
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The Redirect URL option allows you to specify the Redirect URL which was assigned to your app.
- Sign In & Authorize
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- Use Default Browser to Sign In
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When this option is checked the Sign In & Authorize button will open your default web browser in order to complete the OAuth authentication. When this option is unchecked, the Sign In & Authorize button will complete the entire OAuth authentication process inside of the toolkit.
- Sign In & Authorize
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This button allows you to login to the service endpoint and authorize your app to generate a token.
- Path to Token File
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This option allows you to specify the path to the token file on the file system.
- Token File Password
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This option allows you to specify the password of the selected token file.
- API Version
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You may select the available API Versions from the dropdown.
- Test Connection
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After all the connection information has been provided, you may click the Test Connection button to test if the connection settings entered are valid.
Advanced Settings
The Advanced Settings page on the Monday.com Connection Manager allows you to specify some advanced and optional settings for the connection.
- Proxy Server Settings
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- Proxy Mode (since v3.0)
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Proxy Mode option allows to specify how you want to configure the proxy server setting. There are three options available.
- No Proxy
- Auto-detect (Using system configured proxy)
- Manual
- Proxy Server
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Using Proxy Server option allows you to specify the name of the proxy server for the connection.
- Port
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The Port option allows you to specify the port number of the proxy server for the connection.
- Username (Proxy Server Authentication)
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Username option (under Proxy Server Authentication) allows you to specify the proxy user account.
- Password (Proxy Server Authentication)
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Password option (under Proxy Server Authentication) allows you to specify the proxy user's password.
Note: The Proxy Password is not included in the connection manager's ConnectionString property by default. This is by design for security reasons. However, you can include it in your ConnectionString if you want to parameterize your connection manager. The format would be ProxyPassword=myProxyPassword; (make sure you have a semicolon as the last character). It can be anywhere in the ConnectionString.
- Misc
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- Timeout (secs)
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The Timeout (secs) option allows you to specify a timeout value in seconds for the connection. The default value is 120 seconds.
- API Throttling Rate
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The API Throttling Rate will limit the number of requests that can be sent per minute.
- Retry on Intermittent Errors
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This is an option designed to help recover from possible intermittent outages or disruption of service. It prevents the integration process from stopping due to temporary issues. Enabling this option will allow service calls to be retried upon certain types of failure. A service call may be retried up to 3 times before an exception is fired. Retries occur after 0 seconds, 15 seconds, and 60 seconds.
Warning: We have designed our retry feature carefully such that the retry should only occur when it is deemed safe to do so; however, in some occasions such retry service calls could result in the creation of duplicate data.