Blackline
Blackline connections give you access to your company’s financial and accounting reporting data.
Source Setup
Blackline uses a custom OAuth setup for authentication. You’ll need the following information in order to create a new Blackline connection:
- Client ID and Secret: Your company’s Client Id and Client Secret, found in Blackline under Settings → API Client Settings. The user accessing them needs the System Administrator role.
- Base URL: The base URL used for API calls. This is based on your Blackline environment.
| Blackline environment | Base URL value |
|---|---|
| US Customers (Sandbox) | sbus |
| US Customers (Production) | us |
| EU Customers (Sandbox) | sbeu |
| EU Customers (Production) | eu |
| APAC Customers (Sandbox) | sbap |
| APAC Customers (Production) | ap |
- Instance Scope: The instance scope of your Blackline instance. This is also found in the API Client Settings (e.g.,
instance_5A9DC277-37D0-49CA-7F9A-EB023751ED13). - Username: Your blackline username.
- API Key: The API generated by your Blackline administrator for your username.
Note
Prefer using an API? Go here and select Blackline under the Body header to start creating a connection via API.
What Data is Available?
You can ingest data from any report that you’re able to run in your Blackline account. Reports available for pipeline creation are listed by their BlackLine Report Name. Etleap will always fetch data from the latest report of that report name.
All BlackLine reports are Replace Mode pipelines.
Key Considerations
- For a report to appear in Etleap’s resource picker, you’ll need to run that report at least one time inside the Blackline UI.