Forum Post: Configuring a connection to Google Analytics

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Having trouble configuring a connection to Google Analytics? Here is a quick guide to help you get started. The most important piece of information to know about configuring a connection to Google Analytics is that it requires OAuth to authenticate. This means that the User Name and Password fields are not required. We are working to remove them from the data source configuration dialogs. For the time being, you will need to enter values for these options but they are ignored by DataDirect Cloud. To enable OAuth connections there are four pieces of information that you will need to configure your connection: OAuth Client ID, OAuth Client Secret, OAuth Access Token and OAuth Refresh Token. Here are instructions for how to retrieve an OAuth Client ID and an OAuth Client Secret: http://documentation.progress.com/output/DataDirect/DataDirectCloud/index.html#page/Queries/DataDirectCloud.004.html# Once you have generated an OAuth Client ID and an OAuth Client Secret, make sure that you have configured a Redirect URI correctly. After this is complete, please download the Google Analytics Token Tool from the DataDirect Cloud downloads page. This tool is used to generate the OAuth Access Token and the OAuth Refresh Token. The following page explains how to use the Google Analytics Token Tool to generate the OAuth tokens: http://documentation.progress.com/output/DataDirect/DataDirectCloud/index.html#page/Queries/DataDirectCloud.005.html# The Google Analytics Token Tool will launch your web browser and you will be prompted to log in to your Google account if you are not already logged in. After you enter your user name and password, Google Analytics will ask if you would like to grant access for the application to the Google Analytics API. Once you click on the Accept button, the Google Analytics Token Tool will be populated with the tokens. You can then copy and paste the tokens into the data source configuration dialog and you should have enough information to Save and Test your connection.

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