Overview
The Lyftron Provider for Google Campaign Manager offers the most natural way to access Google Campaign Manager data from Lyftron with ease and also enables to connect with BI, MDM & ML tools, Data warehouses, Databases and other SAAS based applications with zero code and zero infrastructure requirements. The provider wraps the complexity of accessing Google Campaign Manager data into easy-to-integrate relational fully managed ANSI Sql format. Make faster and better business decisions with Lyftron’s Google Campaign Manager data provider and automatically build your data migration pipelines in minutes, not months
The provider hides the complexity of accessing data and provides additional powerful security features, smart caching, batching, socket management, and more.
Key Features
- Comprehensive Delta load mechanism.
- Real-time access to Google Campaign Manager.
- Comprehensive full support of ANSI Sql to query data with ease.
- Collaborative query processing.
Prerequisites
The user must have credentials for Google Campaign Manager, Lyftron and your destination data warehouse, lake or database to perform the data pipeline operation with Lyftron
Follow the steps below to authenticate with Google Campaign Manager and obtain the OAuthVerifier connection property:
- Click the following link to open the Google Campaign Manager OAuth endpoint in your browser.
- Log in and grant permissions to the provider. You are then redirected to the callback URL, which contains the verifier code.
- Save the value of the verifier code. You will set this in the OAuthVerifier connection property.
On the headless machine, set the following connection properties to obtain the OAuth authentication values.
- OAuthVerifier: Set this to the verifier code.
- InitiateOAuth: Set this to REFRESH.
- OAuthSettingsLocation: Set this to persist the encrypted OAuth authentication values to the specified file.
After the OAuth settings file is generated, set the following properties to connect to data:
- OAuthSettingsLocation: Set this to the file containing the encrypted OAuth authentication values. Make sure this file gives read and write permissions to the provider to enable the automatic refreshing of the access token.
- InitiateOAuth: Set this to REFRESH.
- ProfileID: Set this to the DoubleClick User Profile ID you want to connect to. This value can be retrieved from the Profiles table. If this is not specified, the first User Profile returned will be used.
For more detailed information on service and user account connectivity click Google Campaign Manager Advanced Settings.
Establishing a Connection with Lyftron's Quickstart Steps
Create your Google Campaign Manager connection with Lyftron by following the 5 easy steps show below:
Step1. Add your connection
Click on Connect section on the left panel → Click on Add Connection button
Step2. Select your connector
In the connector selection panel, search and click Google Campaign Manager for your connection
Step3. Enter your connection details
In the Connection String section enter the values of the below parameters. The following connection string is required to establish Google Campaign Manager connection with Lyftron.
"InitiateOAuth=GETANDREFRESH;ProfileID=MyUserProfileID;""Key | Value | Field |
Connection Name | Enter your connection details | Required |
InitiateOAuth | GETANDREFRESH | Required |
ProfileID | Your Google Campaign Manager ProfileID | Required |
Logfile** | Use the logfile option to debug your job and provide your connection name to generate the log file. [ConnectionConfigurationPath]\Connection_name_log.tx | Optional |
Verbosity** | Choose verbosity 1-5 based on the severity of debugging | Optional |
** For more information, check the Lyftron logging and debugging section.
If you want more detailed information about how to establish a connection with Lyftron, click on Lyftron Connection Quick Start guide.
Step4. Test your connection
Once you are done entering your connection details, simply click on the Test Connection button to test the connectivity. In case your connection fails, add Logfile and Verbosity parameters and check the Lyftron logging and debugging section, to debug the error.
Step5. Save your connection
Hurray! Now you have successfully connected with the Lyftron Google Campaign Manager connector and can utilize the connector to Extract, Warehouse, Analyze, Visualize and Share your data.
Data Model
The Lyftron Provider for Google Campaign Manager models Google Campaign Manager entities in relational Tables, Views, and Stored Procedures. The provided tables will give you an overview of your account information and the reports available for DoubleClick Campaign Manager queries.
API limitations and requirements are documented in this section.
Create Additional Schemas
The CreateCustomSchema stored procedure can be used to easily generate new schema files for a given report. This procedure takes the TableName and a report ID and builds a schema file that can be read by the provider.
If the Location connection property is set, the file will be output to that folder. Otherwise, the OutputFolder input can be used to specify an output folder. To begin querying these new files, simply set the Location connection property to the folder containing these new schema files.
Views
Views are tables that cannot be modified. Typically, data that are read-only and cannot be updated are shown as views.
Views are composed of columns and pseudo columns. Views are similar to tables in the way that data is represented; however, views do not support updates. Entities that are represented as views are typically read-only entities.
Queries can be executed against a view as if it were a normal table, and the data that comes back is similar in that regard.
Name | Type | Description |
CrossDimensionReachReport | Views | Table for running CrossDimensionReach reports saved in DCM or ad-hoc reports. |
Files | Views | Lists all DoubleClick Campaign Manager files for the user. |
FloodlightReport | Views | Table for running Floodlight reports saved in DCM or ad-hoc reports. |
PathToConversionReport | Views | Table for running PathToConversion reports saved in DCM or ad-hoc reports. |
ReachReport | Views | Table for running Reach reports saved in DCM or ad-hoc reports. |
Reports | Views | Lists all DoubleClick Campaign Manager reports for the user. |
StandardReport | Views | Table for running Standard reports saved in DCM or ad-hoc reports. |
UserProfiles | Views | Lists all DoubleClick Campaign Manager user profiles to which the Google user has access. |
Advanced Settings
To view a detailed advanced settings options, go to Google Campaign Manager Advanced Settings. Complete list of the parameters you can configure in the connection string can be found by clicking Connection String Parameters.