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Here at Sage we often get asked the following question: does Sage 50 work on a Mac? We decided to try and answer this question the best way we could with this blog.

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Using the CData ODBC Driver for Sage 50 UK, you can easily pull your Sage 50 UK data directly into Excel.This blog is brought to you courtesy of Jean-Guy, Sage Staff Contributor

Click Return Data to execute the query and pull data into Excel.

Build your SQL query in the Microsoft Query wizard:.

Select the User or System DSN that you previously configured and click OK.

Navigate to the data ribbon and select New Database Query From Database.

Open Microsoft Excel and open a spreadsheet (new or existing).

You can use the DSN configured above to access Sage 50 UK data from Microsoft Excel.

On the Users tab, select CData Sage50UK Source.Īccessing Sage 50 UK Data from Microsoft Excel.

Sudo /Applications/iODBC/iODBC\ Administrator64.app/Contents/MacOS/iODBC\ Administrator64

Open a terminal and enter the following command to start the iODBC Administrator with the necessary permissions:.

You can test your connection using the iODBC administrator.

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The ODBC Drivers section must also contain a property with the driver name, set to "Installed".ĬData ODBC Driver for Sage50UK = Installed Testing the Connection

dylib file located in the lib subfolder of the installation directory, by default in /Applications/CData ODBC Driver for Sage50UK.ĭriver = /Applications/CData ODBC Driver for CData/lib/ In this section, the Driver property specifies the path to the driver library. The section name specifies the name of the driver. You can find the correct odbcinst.ini in the following paths:ĭrivers are defined in sections in the odbcinst.ini file. With iODBC, drivers can be available to only one user account or drivers can be available system wide. To register an ODBC driver, modify the odbcinst.ini file. You may need to modify the installed driver definition if you change the path to the driver library. For example, below is the entry for the DSN created during the driver install:ĬData Sage50UK Source = CData ODBC Driver for Sage50UK Registering a DSN for iODBC with odbcinst.ini If you wish to authenticate using OAuth, you will need to add an additional connection property to ensure that the OAuth flow can execute properly: Other = CheckPromptMode=FalseĪdditionally, in the ODBC Data Sources section, the DSN must be set to a driver defined in the odbcinst.ini file. Place your connection properties at the beginning of odbc.ini: In addition to the connection properties required to connect to Sage50UK, the Driver property specifies either a driver definition in the odbcinst.ini file or the path to the driver library. This will limit the number of rows returned, which is especially helpful for improving performance when designing reports and visualizations. When you configure the DSN, you may also want to set the Max Rows connection property.

Set the URL property to the value in the address field next to the company desired.

A window is displayed containing a list of company names along with the address to their corresponding datasets.

Click the Details button next to Sage 50 Accounts.

If you have not already done so, open the Sage 50 UK software.

These values will be the same usedĪdditionally, the URL property, under the Connection section, will need to be set to the address of the company dataset desired.

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The User and Password properties, under the Connection section, must be set to valid Sage 50 UK user credentials. Note: Only Sage 50 UK 2012 and above are supported. Modifying iODBC's system-wide settings requires elevated permissions to do so, you can use following to open a text editor from the terminal: You can find the correct odbc.ini in the following paths: System data sources can be accessed by all users.

User data sources can only be accessed by the user account whose home folder the odbc.ini is located in. You can define ODBC data sources in sections in the odbc.ini file.

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To activate a trial license, omit the key input.Ĭd "/Applications/CData ODBC Driver for Sage50UK/bin" In a terminal run the following commands to license the driver. This makes the driver easy to use with these tools. The CData ODBC Driver for Sage 50 UK is preconfigured for the iODBC driver manager, as are many other products like Microsoft Excel.

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Installing the CData ODBC Drivers on Mac OS X This article walks through creating a DSN for Sage 50 UK data in iODBC and accessing Sage 50 UK data in Microsoft Excel, all on a machine running Mac OS X. Microsoft Excel features calculations, graphing tools, pivot tables, and a macro programming language that allows users to work with data in many of the ways that suit their needs, whether on a Windows machine or a Macintosh machine.