Connection Properties
The connection properties are the various options that can be used to establish a connection. This section provides a complete list of the options you can configure in the connection settings for this provider. Click the links for further details.
For more information on establishing a connection, see Getting Started.
| Property | Description |
| AuthScheme | The type of authentication to use when connecting to Google Sheets. |
| APIKey | If your client application does not use OAuth 2.0, then it must include an API key when it calls an API that's enabled within a Google Cloud Platform project. |
| Property | Description |
| Spreadsheet | A comma-separated list of the names or Ids of the spreadsheets to be viewed. |
| FolderName | A comma separated list of the folders' names from which to retrieve spreadsheets in the format FolderName='name1,name2'. |
| FolderId | A comma separated list of the folders' ids from which to retrieve spreadsheets in the format FolderId='id1,id2,id3'. |
| ShowTrashedFiles | Indicates whether or not the trashed files will be listed. |
| SkipHiddenSheets | Indicates whether or not the hidden sheets will be listed. |
| SupportsAllDrives | Determines whether or not to retrieve Drive items. |
| UseIdAsTableName | Indicates whether or not to use Ids as Spreadsheet and Sheet name. |
| TeamDrive | A drive's names or ids from which to retrieve spreadsheets in the format TeamDrive='Shared drive 2, Shared drive 3', or TeamDrive='0BKwyFj1j9FOsUk9EVO, 0ANMIP9RIe1LQUk9PVA'. |
| DomainSharedFilesOnly | Boolean determining if the exposed sheets are limited to only the sheets shared to the user's domain or not. |
| RecurseFolders | Used in case FolderId/FolderName properties are defined. If set to True this makes the driver return all the Spreadsheets inside nested folders, else the driver will return only the files directly to that foder. By default this is set to false. |
| IgnoreErrorValues | When enabled, fields where the provider detects error values will be returned as NULL. If disabled, the provider throws an error if an error value is detected in any field. |
| Property | Description |
| OAuthClientId | The client Id assigned when you register your application with an OAuth authorization server. |
| OAuthClientSecret | The client secret assigned when you register your application with an OAuth authorization server. |
| OAuthAccessToken | The access token for connecting using OAuth. |
| DelegatedServiceAccounts | A space-delimited list of service account emails for delegated requests. |
| RequestingServiceAccount | A service account email to make a delegated request. |
| OAuthSettingsLocation | The location of the settings file where OAuth values are saved when InitiateOAuth is set to GETANDREFRESH or REFRESH . Alternatively, you can hold this location in memory by specifying a value starting with 'memory://'. |
| CallbackURL | The OAuth callback URL to return to when authenticating. This value must match the callback URL you specify in your app settings. |
| OAuthVerifier | The verifier code returned from the OAuth authorization URL. |
| OAuthRefreshToken | The OAuth refresh token for the corresponding OAuth access token. |
| OAuthExpiresIn | The lifetime in seconds of the OAuth AccessToken. |
| OAuthTokenTimestamp | The Unix epoch timestamp in milliseconds when the current Access Token was created. |
| Property | Description |
| OAuthJWTCert | The JWT Certificate store. |
| OAuthJWTCertType | The type of key store containing the JWT Certificate. |
| OAuthJWTCertPassword | The password for the OAuth JWT certificate. |
| OAuthJWTCertSubject | The subject of the OAuth JWT certificate. |
| OAuthJWTIssuer | The issuer of the Java Web Token. |
| OAuthJWTSubject | The user subject for which the application is requesting delegated access. |
| Property | Description |
| SSLServerCert | The certificate to be accepted from the server when connecting using TLS/SSL. |
| Property | Description |
| FirewallType | The protocol used by a proxy-based firewall. |
| FirewallServer | The name or IP address of a proxy-based firewall. |
| FirewallPort | The TCP port for a proxy-based firewall. |
| FirewallUser | The user name to use to authenticate with a proxy-based firewall. |
| FirewallPassword | A password used to authenticate to a proxy-based firewall. |
| Property | Description |
| ProxyAutoDetect | When this connection property is set to True, the provider checks your system proxy settings for existing proxy server configurations (no need to manually supply proxy server details). Set to False if you want to manually configure the provider to connect to a specific proxy server. |
| ProxyServer | The hostname or IP address of the proxy server that you want to route HTTP traffic through. |
| ProxyPort | The TCP port that the proxy server (specified in the ProxyServer connection property) is running on. |
| ProxyAuthScheme | The authentication method the provider uses when authenticating to the proxy server specified in the ProxyServer connection property. |
| ProxyUser | The username of a user account registered with the proxy server specified in the ProxyServer connnection property. |
| ProxyPassword | The password associated with the user specified in the ProxyUser connection property. |
| ProxySSLType | The SSL type to use when connecting to the ProxyServer proxy. |
| ProxyExceptions | A semicolon separated list of destination hostnames or IPs that are exempt from connecting through the ProxyServer . |
| Property | Description |
| Logfile | A filepath which designates the name and location of the log file. |
| Verbosity | The verbosity level that determines the amount of detail included in the log file. |
| LogModules | Core modules to be included in the log file. |
| MaxLogFileSize | A string specifying the maximum size in bytes for a log file (for example, 10 MB). |
| MaxLogFileCount | A string specifying the maximum file count of log files. |
| Property | Description |
| Location | A path to the directory that contains the schema files defining tables, views, and stored procedures. |
| BrowsableSchemas | This property restricts the schemas reported to a subset of the available schemas. For example, BrowsableSchemas=SchemaA,SchemaB,SchemaC. |
| Tables | This property restricts the tables reported to a subset of the available tables. For example, Tables=TableA,TableB,TableC. |
| Views | Restricts the views reported to a subset of the available tables. For example, Views=ViewA,ViewB,ViewC. |
| TypeDetectionScheme | Determines how to determine the data types of columns. |
| Header | Indicates whether or not the first row should be used as a column header. |
| PrimaryKeyIdentifier | Set this property to control the name of the primary key. |
| DefineTables | Define the tables within the Google Spreadsheet. |
| Orientation | Indicates whether the data in the sheet is laid out horizontally or vertically. |
| Property | Description |
| AutoCache | Automatically caches the results of SELECT queries into a cache database specified by either CacheLocation or both of CacheConnection and CacheProvider . |
| CacheProvider | The name of the provider to be used to cache data. |
| CacheConnection | The connection string for the cache database. This property is always used in conjunction with CacheProvider . Setting both properties will override the value set for CacheLocation for caching data. |
| CacheLocation | Specifies the path to the cache when caching to a file. |
| CacheTolerance | The tolerance for stale data in the cache specified in seconds when using AutoCache . |
| Offline | Use offline mode to get the data from the cache instead of the live source. |
| CacheMetadata | This property determines whether or not to cache the table metadata to a file store. |
| Property | Description |
| AutoAdjustRange | If set to true, the driver will automatically expand the dimensions in case the updated/insert/deleted value is outside the range of the sheet. |
| AWSWorkloadIdentityConfig | Configuration properties to provide when using Workload Identity Federation via AWS. |
| DateTimeRenderOption | Determines how dates, times, and durations should be represented in the output. This is ignored if the ValueRenderOption is FormattedValue. The default datetime render option is SerialNumber. |
| DirectQueryLimit | Limits the number of rows when using the DirectQuery mode. This helps avoid performance issues at design time. |
| EnableForeignKeyDetection | Whether to detect the foreign keys in ODBC. |
| InsertDataOption | Determines how existing data is changed when new data is input. |
| MaximumColumnSize | The maximum column size. |
| MaxRows | Limits the number of rows returned when no aggregation or GROUP BY is used in the query. This takes precedence over LIMIT clauses. |
| NullValueMode | Indicates whether to read empty cells as null or as empty. |
| Other | These hidden properties are used only in specific use cases. |
| Pagesize | The maximum number of results to return per page from Google Sheets. |
| PercentageToDecimal | Boolean determining if percentage columns should be considered as decimal. |
| PseudoColumns | Specify a set of pseudocolumns to expose as columns. |
| Readonly | You can use this property to enforce read-only access to Google Sheets from the provider. |
| RowScanDepth | The maximum number of rows to scan to look for the columns available in a table. |
| RTK | The runtime key used for licensing. |
| ShowEmptyRows | Indicates whether or not the empty rows should be pushed. |
| Timeout | The value in seconds until the timeout error is thrown, canceling the operation. |
| UserDefinedViews | A filepath pointing to the JSON configuration file containing your custom views. |
| UseSimpleNames | Boolean determining if simple names should be used for tables and columns. |
| ValueInputOption | Determines how inserted values should be treated. |
| ValueRenderOption | Determines how values should be rendered in the output. |
| WorkloadPoolId | The ID of your Workload Identity Federation pool. |
| WorkloadProjectId | The ID of the Google Cloud project that hosts your Workload Identity Federation pool. |
| WorkloadProviderId | The ID of your Workload Identity Federation pool provider. |