tGoogleAnalytics4Report Standard properties

Property Type

Select the way the connection details will be set.

• Built-In: The connection details will be set locally for this component. You need to specify the values for all related connection properties manually.

• Repository: The connection details stored centrally in Repository > Metadata will be reused by this component.

  You need to click the [...] button next to it and in the pop-up Repository Content dialog box, select the connection details to be reused, and all related connection properties will be automatically filled in.

Schema and Edit schema

A schema is a row description, and it defines the fields to be processed and passed on to the next component.

• Built-In: You create and store the schema locally for this component only.

• Repository: You have already created the schema and stored it in the Repository. You can reuse it in various projects and Job designs.

Click Edit schema to make changes to the schema. If you make changes, the schema automatically becomes built-in.

• View schema: choose this option to view the schema only.

• Change to built-in property: choose this option to change the schema to Built-in for local changes.

• Update repository connection: choose this option to change the schema stored in the repository and decide whether to propagate the changes to all the Jobs upon completion.

  If you just want to propagate the changes to the current Job, you can select No upon completion and choose this schema metadata again in the Repository Content window.

• Service account key: authenticate using a Google account that is associated with your Google Cloud Platform project. When selecting this mode, the parameter to be defined is Google credentials.
• Application Default Credentials: authenticate using the Application Default Credentials. When selecting this mode, no additional parameters need to be defined as credentials are automatically found based on the application environment.

To know more about the Google Cloud authentication process, read the Google Cloud documentation.

Paste the content of the JSON file that contains your service account key.

This property is only available when you authenticate using Service account key.

Select or enter the start and end dates corresponding to the report you want to retrieve.

Select or enter the name of the dimensions you want to use.

Example: Page title(PageTitle)

Fore more information, read the Google Analytics 4 API documentation.

This option impacts the schema of the output flow of this component. It is recommended to update the schema by clicking the Guess schema button after setting the dimensions in the table.

Select or enter the name of the metrics you want to use.

Example: Sessions (sessions)

Fore more information, read the Google Analytics 4 API documentation.

This option impacts the schema of the output flow of this component. It is recommended to update the schema by clicking the Guess schema button after setting the metrics in the table.

tStatCatcher Statistics

Select this check box to gather the Job processing metadata at the Job level as well as at each component level.

Enter the read timeout value in milliseconds. An exception will occur if the waiting time expires before there is data available to read.

Advanced metrics

For more information, read the Google Analytics 4 API documentation.

This option impacts the schema of the output flow of this component. It is recommended to update the schema by clicking the Guess schema button after setting the metrics in the table.

Define your custom filter clause in JSON format. You can use the expression name defined previously in this clause.

For more information, read the Google Analytics 4 API documentation.

Define your custom metric clause in JSON format. You can use the expression name defined previously in this clause.

For more information, read the Google Analytics 4 API documentation.

Enable this option to include in the response the rows where all metric values are zero.

ERROR_MESSAGE

The error message generated by the component when an error occurs. This is an After variable and it returns a string.

Usage rule

This component can be used as a standalone component or as a start component of a Job or subJob.