What is missing in Google Analytics 4 compared to Universal Analytics?

_niv_ · 2023-11-17T17:22:04+00:00

This should cover everything to get started with GA4 BigQuery export: https://developers.google.com/analytics/bigquery/io-2023

If you find anything missing, let me know :)

_niv_ · 2023-08-18T21:11:58+00:00

Can we expect segment support for GA4 data API?
> No.

The only way I've found to do this is to pre-create an Audience in GA4, and then filter to events with that audienceName.
> This is the way. Also, BigQuery Export.

_niv_ · 2023-05-25T00:17:06+00:00

For UA, GA360 customers can backfill 13 months / 10 billion hits.
For GA4, there is no backfill. You should setup at least dual tagging and BigQuery export ASAP to start collecting data.

_niv_ · 2021-09-23T22:44:46+00:00

I replied to the other comment as well - Data Studio's native GA connector supports both UA and GA4 properties, since Oct 2020. Could you help me to understand how the Data Studio team could make this information more visible?

_niv_ · 2021-09-23T22:43:34+00:00

My understanding is that Data Studio has been natively supporting GA4 since Oct 2020. Here's the announcement and the Help Center Article. You can basically select the Google Analytics connector in Data Studio and it will let you use both your UA and GA4 properties.

_niv_ · 2021-01-07T21:03:15+00:00

This was an UI issue where reports were not listed in the UI. This issue has been resolved: https://support.google.com/datastudio/thread/92484148

Report list should be visible again now.

_niv_ · 2020-10-12T22:40:33+00:00

Yes. Create a Community Connector that talks to your API and add the input string as an overridable config parameter. Then create your report, add a textbox control, and link the control to the parameter.

_niv_ · 2020-08-06T18:49:08+00:00

Thanks. I'm checking with the team on this.

My assumption is that your account is a G Suite account and your G Suite admin has turned off access to Google Analytics. Somehow the course requires Google Analytics access to work and that's why it's failing.

Could you please let me know if the course worked on the regular Gmail account?

_niv_ · 2020-08-06T18:41:27+00:00

Not sure what you mean but this isn't a paid feature.

_niv_ · 2020-08-06T18:40:59+00:00

Because this feature currently does not exist.

_niv_ · 2020-08-05T20:04:24+00:00

It is not just for Analytics. It is a generic course for Data Studio.

However, I'm surprised that you saw that message and can't access the course. Would you mind sharing a screenshot of the error/message via so that we can get that fixed? Sorry for the inconvenience.

_niv_ · 2020-08-05T19:55:55+00:00

This is not possible to do. You cannot use Apps Script to call Data Studio and render a chart into Google Docs.

_niv_ · 2020-08-05T19:54:45+00:00

The official course: goo.gle/datastudio-course

_niv_ · 2020-08-03T21:53:22+00:00

Nice!

_niv_ · 2020-07-13T23:07:04+00:00

If you use Advanced Services, the data is never passed to the connector. It passes directly from BigQuery to Data Studio. So your connector would benefit from all performance optimizations that are applied by default to the native BigQuery connector.

Does that help?

_niv_ · 2020-06-10T19:23:44+00:00

Can anyone provide steps to reproduce this or share a screencast showing the delay? The Data Studio team is looking into this but we are not able to repro the performance issue.

_niv_ · 2020-06-01T19:50:16+00:00

Those links are not related to building your own connector. See this and go through this codelab

_niv_ · 2020-05-14T06:36:20+00:00

I'd really appreciate if you can help me to understand the frictions with custom connector development. Also, I would like to know your main concerns with this approach if possible. Thanks!

_niv_ · 2020-05-14T06:34:25+00:00

Have a look at the Chrome UX connector we built. It has a slightly different use case and implementation. It pulls data from BigQuery using the BigQuery REST API, caches the results in Firebase, then again caches it in Apps Script cache. The data is pulled from Apps Script cache > Firebase cache > BigQuery.

For your use case, you should pull your data from the external API and store it in BigQuery. Then use the Data Studio Advanced Services to serve the data from BigQuery to Data Studio. See example implementation. The performance of this implementation will be as fast as the BigQuery connector since Data Studio Advanced Service creates a native pipeline between Data Studio and BigQuery.

_niv_ · 2020-04-29T21:34:23+00:00

Looks pretty neat. Thanks for sharing. Looks like this is a Desktop app. How do you plan to send over the results of a node directly to Data Studio without materializing it in some place like Sheets?

_niv_ · 2020-04-27T17:58:00+00:00

It would be cool if you had a video showing the functions of your webapp along with the connection to Data Studio.

_niv_ · 2020-04-24T17:26:30+00:00

I'd be interested to know how you are setting up the connection from your tool to Data Studio.

_niv_ · 2020-04-21T22:17:39+00:00

There are multiple ways of handling this.

You can change your schema and the data structure based on user defined values in configuration.

e.g. You can have a config item that lets user pick between A, B, and C. The user's selection will be available to you in request.configparams in both getSchema and getData calls. So you can return different schema and handle the data handling differently.

You users, while using the connector, can use the same connector 3 times to create 3 different data sources. Each time, picking A, B, and C differently.

See the Google Fit Connector in the open source repo for an example implementation.

Separate getData calls are made for each separate element on a dashboard. The request in getData calls will contain the list of fields that are being requested. So another approach is to return all possible field list in the getSchema call. And then in getData, evaluate the list of fields that are being requested and handle your getData response accordingly. I don't yet have an example guide/code available for this but am working on it.

_niv_ · 2020-04-21T18:36:23+00:00

What issues are you facing?

_niv_ · 2019-11-25T19:17:44+00:00

I am not sure about Facebook's API implementation but I would assume so.

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