The July 2021 update of OdataLink took longer than expected but is finally here.
Here is the list of what’s new in OdataLink for July 2021.
For Xero data files
- A new model for Xero Payroll (Australia)
- Additional endpoints for Xero Projects
For MYOB data files
- Additional endpoints for MYOB
- Additional configuration settings for MYOB
For everyone
- A new Static Archive Type
Xero Payroll (Australia) model
The major enhancement to OdataLink this month is the addition of the Xero Payroll (Australia) model.
This new type of model allows you to download most of the payroll information available with Australian Xero Organisations.
It includes an additional 16 endpoints allowing you to download:
- Employees
- Pay Items
- Pay Runs
- Pay Slips
- Payroll Calendars
Additional Xero Projects endpoints
Xero Projects include two new endpoints called Tasks and Times.
They provide, respectively, a list of tasks and times associated with each project defined within Xero.
Additional MYOB endpoint
MYOB models include a new endpoint called AccountsClassifications.
This new endpoint is provided to simplify calculating values based on the Chart of Accounts.
It provides a list of all the known account classifications including whether they are Profit and Loss, Balance Sheet, Debit, Credit, etc.
Static Archive Type
A new Archive Type has been added to all types of models in order to increase performance for pulling historical data.
Currently, when the Archive Type is set to Live, all requests made to OdataLink will be forwarded on to your data file (e.g. MYOB or Xero).
With this new option, when a model’s Archive Type is set to Static, this will instruct OdataLink that the data never needs to be refreshed from the source data file. Instead, OdataLink will return the cached data.
In conjunction with the Default Start Date and Default End Date option, this can greatly increase the performance of your integration.
New configuration settings for MYOB
The initial implementation of our odata connection to MYOB followed their recommendation of requesting data in sets of 400 records.
While this works well for most MYOB files, it has been an issue in recent months for larger MYOB data files.
To resolve these issues, we have added a new option for MYOB models that allow you to set the Default Page Size.
Following the recent recommendation from MYOB, new models will have this value set to 100 but possible values range from 50 to 1000.
