Harvest (Lite)

Harvest is a time tracking and management software with reporting and streamlined online invoicing.

• For more information about connecting to SaaS applications, see Connecting to SaaS applications.

• Depending on your use case, you might need to install Data Movement gateway to move data from SaaS applications. For more information, see When is Data Movement gateway required?.

Supported update methods

For more information, see Change processing.

Landing tasks:

• Change data capture (CDC)

• Reload and compare

Replication tasks:

• Change data capture (CDC) using Change Tables

• Full load

Landing data in a data lake tasks:

• Change data capture (CDC)

• Reload

Preparing for authentication

To access your Harvest data, you need to authenticate the connection with your account credentials.

To obtain your client ID and secret:

1. Connect to https://id.getharvest.com/developers.
2. Navigate to the Developers section.
3. Create an OAuth app. For more information, see OAuth 2.0 Authentication from the Harvest documentation.

Creating the connection

1. Click Authenticate when you have filled in the required connection settings.

   You may be asked to log in to the source application.

   A window is displayed with an authentication code.

2. Copy the code to the clipboard and return to the connection dialog.

3. Paste the code in Complete authentication with the code provided by the source and click Verify.

   Tip noteYou may need to scroll down to see this field.

   When status is Verified,the authentication is verified.

4. Provide a name for the connection in Connection name.

5. Select Open connection metadata to define metadata for the connection when it has been created.