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Connecting Google Sheets on Oviond

Steps to assist you in connecting Google Sheets on Oviond, including permissions, limitations, reconnecting, and possible error messages.

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Written by Chris Irwin
Updated over a week ago

This article will help you understand how to connect and use Google Sheets on Oviond and how to use your spreadsheet as widgets in your reports and dashboards.

Google Sheets Permissions

To connect your Google Sheets account to Oviond, you need to have login credentials to a Google Account that has access to the spreadsheet. There are no permission limitations when connecting Google Sheets with Oviond. The spreadsheet doesn't need to be shareable in order to pull data into Oviond.

Connecting Google Sheets On Oviond

Follow the instructions to connect Google Sheets to Oviond:

  1. Open Oviond and navigate to the client you wish to connect Google Sheets to.

  2. Click on Google Sheets.

  3. An authentication pop-up will appear (The first authenticated account will automatically be called "Default Google Sheets Account") and you can change this here.

  4. Click the Google Account you wish to connect to and then click Allow. Follow the prompts in the pop-up window.

  5. Choose Default Google Sheets Account in the integration connection pop-up on the right then click Next.

  6. Choose Default Google Sheets Account and click Save.

Note: Connecting a Google Account will give you access to all the spreadsheets that the email address has access to.

Prepare your Google Sheets source file

The formats that are used in your spreadsheet will be ignored when using the query builder for a Google Sheets widget. You will choose the formats in the Metric Formats section of the query builder.

You shouldn't include any symbols in your spreadsheet as this will affect how the data appears and is calculated in your widget on Oviond (don't use currency or percentage symbols)

NB: Columns including dates need to be formatted in the spreadsheet - the date format must be YYYY-MM-DD

Create a table chart using Date as the dimension with a summary row - Example

For this example, we will create a table from the Google Sheets data, with a summary row showing totals.

  • Select the Google Sheet

  • Select the Sheet you would like to use

  • Select a dimension. This is important as this is how your data is split. As an example, if your dimension is Date and your metric is Sales, you could track sales over time, If your dimension was Device and your metric was Visits you should show Visits by Device

  • Set your chart type to Table, give the widget a name, and set your default sort direction.

  • Configure your metric formats

  • Toggle Show Totals to On

Metric Formats

One of the features that make our Google Sheets integration so powerful, is we give you the ability to assign formats (Currently number, percent, currency, text, and date) to columns and then define how the summary is aggregated (Currently sum, average, count, max, and min) for metrics.

Create a line chart for sales over time using Date as a dimension and Sales as the metric - Example

For this example, we will use our Google Sheet to track sales over time. We will use the Date column as our dimension and the Sales column as our metric.

  • Select the Google Sheet

  • Select the Sheet you would like to use

  • Select a date as your dimension

  • Set Sales as your metric

  • Select Line Chart

  • Name your widget

  • Configure metric formats

    • Date format to Date

    • Sales format to Number and summary to Sum

Create a scorecard for the Average Conversion Rate over a selected date range, using Date as the dimension and Conversion Rate as the metric - Example

For this example, we will use our Google Sheet to create a scorecard showing the average conversion rate over a selected date range. We will use the Date column as our dimension and the Conversion Rate column as our metric.

  • Select the Google Sheet

  • Select the Sheet you would like to use

  • Select a date as your dimension

  • Set conversion rate as your metric

  • Select scorecard

  • Name your widget

  • Configure metric formats

    • Date format to Date

    • Conversion Rate format to Percent and summary to Average

If you have followed these steps and are still experiencing issues with Google Sheets on Oviond, please contact support.

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