Overview
The Lyftrondata Provider for SurveyMonkey offers the most natural way to access SurveyMonkey data from Lyftrondata 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 SurveyMonkey data into easy-to-integrate relational fully managed ANSI Sql format. Make faster and better business decisions with Lyftrondata’s SurveyMonkey 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 SurveyMonkey.
- Comprehensive full support of ANSI Sql to query data with ease.
- Collaborative query processing.
Prerequisites
The user must have credentials for SurveyMonkey, Lyftrondata and your destination data warehouse, lake or database to perform the data pipeline operation with Lyftrondata.
Establishing a Connection with Lyftrondata's Quickstart Steps
Create your SurveyMonkey connection with Lyftrondata 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 SurveyMonkey 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 SurveyMonkey connection with Lyftrondata.
"InitiateOAuth=GETANDREFRESH;OAuthClientId=MyOAuthClientId;OAuthClientSecret=MyOAuthClientSecret;CallbackURL=http://localhost:portNumber;"Key | Value | Field |
Connection Name | Enter your connection details | Required |
InitiateOAuth | GETANDREFRESH | Required |
OAuthClientId | MyOAuthClientId | Required |
OAuthClientSecret | MyOAuthClientSecret | Required |
CallbackURL | http://localhost:portNumber | 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 Lyftrondata logging and debugging section.
If you want more detailed information about how to establish a connection with Lyftrondata, click on Lyftrondata 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 Lyftrondata logging and debugging section, to debug the error.
Step5. Save your connection
Hurray! Now you have successfully connected with the Lyftrondata SurveyMonkey connector and can utilize the connector to Extract, Warehouse, Analyze, Visualize and Share your data.
Data Model
The Lyftrondata Provider for SurveyMonkey models entities in the SurveyMonkey API as tables, views, and stored procedures. These are defined in schema files, which are simple, text-based configuration files.
API limitations and requirements are documented in this section; you can use the SupportEnhancedSQL feature, set by default, to circumvent most of these limitations.
Tables
The Lyftrondata Provider for SurveyMonkey models Item Listings in tables so that they can be easily queried, updated, and deleted. You can list items on your SurveyMonkey store by calling the AddItem stored procedure.
Views
Views are tables that cannot be modified. Typically, read-only data are shown as views.
Name | Type | Description |
CollectorMessages | Views | Shows information regarding messages sent from a collector. |
CollectorRecipients | Views | Shows information regarding recipients of all or specific messages sent from a collector. |
Collectors | Views | Shows collector information. |
CollectorStats | Views | Shows statistics regarding all or specific messages sent from a collector. |
ContactLists | Views | Shows contact list information. |
Contacts | Views | Shows contact information. |
Pages | Views | Shows information regarding pages for a survey. |
RollupQuestions | Views | Shows rolled up individual stats information for a survey. |
Rollups | Views | Shows rolled up stats information for a survey. |
SurveyQuestions | Views | Shows the available columns for Survey Questions. Append _Questions to your survey name to query survey questions. |
SurveyResponses | Views | Shows the available columns for Survey Responses. Append _Responses to your survey name to query survey responses. |
Advanced Settings
To view a detailed advanced settings options, go to SurveyMonkey Advanced Settings. Complete list of the parameters you can configure in the connection string can be found by clicking Connection String Parameters.