Connecting to Google Analytics

Establishing a Connection shows how to authenticate to Google Analytics and configure any necessary connection properties. You can create a connection profile by clicking Get Data and selecting From Google Analytics on the CData ribbon.

Advanced Configurations

You can also configure add-in capabilities through the available Connection properties, from data modeling to firewall traversal. The Advanced Settings section shows how to set up more advanced add-in configurations and troubleshoot connection errors.

Configuring a Connection Profile

You can configure access control in a connection profile by defining the operations allowed against Google Analytics data and store the profile in the workbook to make the workbook easy to share. See Managing Connections for more configuration options for connection profiles.

Connecting from Excel

The add-in adds controls to the Excel ribbon, standard Excel formulas, and VBA classes for writing macros.

Google Analytics Version Support

The add-in supports Google Analytics 4 APIs. The add-in provides a relational view of the Google Analytics profiles in your Google account or across your Google Apps domain. The add-in includes tables that contain often-used dimensions and metrics as columns; additionally, you can customize the table schemas or write your own to combine any valid set of dimensions and metrics. The add-in exposes the columns available through the Data API (Google Analytics 4) and the Admin API (Google Analytics 4). You must enable these APIs by creating a project in the Google Developers Console. See "Connecting to Google Analytics" for a guide to creating a project and authenticating to the APIs.

See Also

• See Using the Excel Add-In to work with Google Analytics data from the CData ribbon.
• By Writing Parameterized Queries in the From Google Analytics dialog, you can easily create a dynamic spreadsheet based on an underlying SQL SELECT query. Cell values provide the query's input parameters.
• Use the CData Excel Functions to execute multiple queries from the same sheet or to use cells and ranges to manipulate Google Analytics data.
• See Using the Excel Add-In (VBA) to write macros that can automate any of the capabilities available on the ribbon.