Is it possible to build one Google data studio report (i.e., template) and use a URL that links it to a specific data-set or defines a hidden filter that creates a sample of a larger data set?
I understand Data Control allows this for users operating under the same Google domain.
However, I want to provide multiple university student teams with their personal information but not allow the other teams to see or filter for information that they should not see. Ideally I could simply share a customised URL with each team that takes care of this filtering/sampling.
Any guidance appreciated - many thanks!
You can do this with custom bookmarks and URL parameters.
I want to use live agent Service, that I configured already.
But I cant create new Custom chat page(because I cant see add sites functionality in my account)
(I already add domain and visualforce pages)
Please go to Setup and enter 'Sites' as a search query. Sites should show up. You might need to switch from Lightning Experience to classic SF, but I'm quite sure this isn't neccessary.
This might be a very stupid question but I'll try it anyway. We currently have our company website TeamDeals Energie Collectief running on Drupal and next to that we have an access database with all our customer info. We would like to automatically import submitted forms from the website into our database. The problem is we have no idea if and how this could be accomplished.
You can setup a view exporting your form results in CSV (you can configure your view so it fetches only last days submissions or something like that) with drupal.org/project/views_data_export, set a URL to this view, and have a daily cron job on your remote system (hosting your access database) like "wget http://www.teamdeals.nl/path_to_your_csv_view". Maybe not very clean but it works (I saw this once).
You might have problems trying to get form submissions from a view. Assuming you're using webforms, have a look to this post.
You can (should ?) restrain your CSV view URL access to a IP array (on your view : Page settings -> Access permission -> PHP code :
return in_array($_SERVER['REMOTE_ADDR'], array('your.remote.server.ip'));
).
I repeat, there is certainly a better / more secure solution, but it might be a starting point.
I am trying to do some very basic analytics on an existing sitecore site. All i need to find is basic behavior (page views, time on page) about logged in user. For instance, I need to be able to see which pages a particular logged in user has viewed, and how long he/she stayed on that page.
I am using Sitecore 6.4, is this possible?
If so, what is the preferred way to go about doing this?
The way that Sitecore's analytics work isn't quite like you might imagine. It's really not designed to do reporting on specific users without some configuration on your part. Basically it means that you have to set up their username to be captured.. which is probably easiest to do by assigning a tag to their session. From there, there are things like the session reports and then you can pull up all the sessions for that tag (username). This is something that you will probably have to spend some time and some trial and error to do... but it is possible.. just not necessarily an out of the box report.
I'm trying to write an app on the SalesForce platform that can pull a list of contacts from a report and send them to a web service (say to send them an email or SMS)
The only way I can seem to find to do this is to add the report results to a newly created campaign, and then access that campaign. This seems like the long way around.
Every post I read online says you can't access the reports through Apex, however most or all of these posts were written before Version 20 of the API was released last month, which introduced a new report object. I can now programmatically access info about a report (Such as the date last run etc) but I still can't seem to find a way to access the result data contained in that report.
Does anyone know if there's a way to do that?
After much research into it, I've discovered the only way to do this at the moment is indeed to scrape the CSV document. I would guess that Conga etc are using exactly this method.
We've been doing this for a while now, and it works. The only caveats are:
Salesforce username / password /
security token has to be shared to
the app connecting. If the password
changes (and by default it is changed
every 30 days or so) the token also
changes and must be re-entered.
You have to know the host of the account, which can be difficult to
get right. For instance while most european accounts would use emea.salesforce.com to access CSV, our account uses na7 (North America 7) even though we're located in
ireland. I'm currently sending the page host to the app and parsing it
to calculate the correct subdomain to use, but I think there has to be a
better way to do this.
Salesforce really needs to sort this out by supplying an API call which allows custom report results to be exported on the fly and allowing us to use OAuth to connect to it. But of course, this is unlikely to happen.
In the SalesforceSpring 11 update, it seems you can obtain more informations about the Reports:
As stated in the API for Report and ReportType, you can access via Apex the fields used in the query by the Report, reading the field "columns", as well as the field used to represent the filters called "filter".
Iterating through this objects, should allow you to build a String representing the same query of the Report. After building that string you can make a dynamic query with a Database.query(..) call.
It seems to be a little messy, but should work.. (NOT TESTED YET!)
As header states, this works only with Custom Reports!
Just to clarify for fellow rookies who will find this, when the question was asked you could access your report data programatically, but you had to use some hacky, error prone methods.
This is all fixed, you can now access your reports via the API as of Winter '14.
Documentation here - http://www.salesforce.com/us/developer/docs/api_analytics/index.htm
Go to town on those custom dashboards etc. Cross posted from the Salesforce Stack Exchange - https://salesforce.stackexchange.com/questions/337/can-report-data-be-accessed-programatically/
But Conga (appextremes) do this in their QuickMerge product, where the user specifies the report Id, and the apex script on the page runs the report to extract the results for a mail merge operation.
the v20.0 API added metadata about the reports, but no way to actually run the report and obtain the results. If this is a standard report, or a report you've defined, you can work out the equivalent SOQL query for your report and run that, but if its an end user defined report, there's no way to do this.