CloudBlue Connect Product Synchronizer CLI
Project description
Connect Command Line Interface
Introduction
CloudBlue Connect is a supply automation platform that manages your products and services, contracts, ordering and fulfillment, usage and subscriptions.
It supports any product, from physical goods to cloud products, as well as any channel, including your direct and indirect sales channels and internal procurement.
With its flexible APIs, it can connect to any commerce platform.
Vendors can leverage CloudBlue Connect to:
- Reduce the total cost of ownership for homegrown technology supporting their indirect channel
- Standardize integrations with partners
- Increase efficiencies and minimize redundancies by bridging their direct and indirect sales channels
Service providers can use CloudBlue Connect to:
- Define, manage and distribute any type of product (omni-product) through any channel (omni-channel)
- Transform perpetual licensed products into a subscription model
- Onboard new products into their portfolio quickly to build and deliver unique solutions to end customers
connect-cli
allow users to export/synchronize the items of a product to/from an Excel workbook.
Install
Using a virtualenv
To use connect-cli
you need any *nix system with python 3.6 or later installed.
The preferred way to install connect-cli
is using a virtualenv:
$ virtualenv psync
$ source pysync/bin/activate
$ pip install connect-cli
Binary distributions
A single executable binary distribution is available for windows, linux and mac osx (amd64). You can it from the Github Releases page.
To install under linux:
$ curl -O -J https://github.com/cloudblue/connect-cli/releases/download/21.3/connect-cli_21.3_linux_amd64.tar.gz
$ tar xvfz connect-cli_21.3_linux_amd64.tar.gz
$ sudo cp dist/ccli /usr/local/bin/ccli
To install under Mac OSX:
$ curl -O -J https://github.com/cloudblue/connect-cli/releases/download/21.3/connect-cli_21.3_osx_amd64.tar.gz
$ tar xvfz connect-cli_21.3_osx_amd64.tar.gz
$ sudo cp dist/ccli /usr/local/bin/ccli
If your user is not a sudoer, you can copy the
ccli
executable from the dist directory to a directory of your choice that is listed in thePATH
variable.
To install under Windows
Download the windows single executable zipfile from Github Releases, extract it and place it in a folder that is included in your path
system variable.
Usage
Add a new account
First of all you need to add an account the connect-cli
with the CloudBlue Connect API key.
$ ccli account add "ApiKey XXXXX:YYYYY"
List configured accounts
To get a list of all configured account run:
$ ccli account list
Set the current active account
To set the current active account run:
$ ccli account activate VA-000-000
Remove an account
To remove an account run:
$ ccli account remove VA-000-000
List available products
To get a list of available products run:
$ ccli product list
This command will output a list of all products (id and name) available within the current active account.
You can also filter the results by adding the --query
flag followed by a RQL query.
For more information about RQL see the Resource Query Language
article in the Connect community documentation portal.
Export a product to Excel
To export a product to Excel run:
$ ccli product export PRD-000-000-000
This command will generate a excel file named PRD-000-000-000.xlsx in the current working directory.
Synchronize a product from Excel
To synchronize a product from Excel run:
$ ccli product sync my_products.xlsx
Getting help
To get help about the connect-cli
commands type:
$ ccli --help
License
connect-cli
is released under the Apache License Version 2.0.
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