Social Media Adapters

In this section:

This section provides detailed descriptions of new features for the Social Media adapters.


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Adapter for Google Analytics

The Adapter for Google Analytics has been introduced in this release and is available as a named adapter on the Web Console in the Social Media folder.

The adapter is used to report against the information residing in the Google Analytics environment. Metrics, such as Page Views and Users, can be analyzed by various dimensions (for example, Country and City).

You can configure the adapter using the WebFOCUS Reporting Server Web Console. The adapter requires a connection, which stores the access token. A valid Google Analytics access token is required to issue Google Analytics API calls. This token is associated with a Google Analytics application and a specific Google Analytics user.


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Adapter for Facebook: Enhanced Create Synonym Functionality

Create Synonym functionality has been enhanced to create DataMigrator flows and metadata for SQL Server tables to support the warehousing of Facebook information.

Additional WebFOCUS reports have been added to report against the Facebook SQL Server Data Model.


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Adapter for Twitter: Enhanced Create Synonym Functionality

Create Synonym functionality has been enhanced to create DataMigrator flows and metadata for SQL Server tables to support the warehousing of Twitter information.

Additional WebFOCUS reports have been added to report against the Twitter SQL Server Data Model.


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Adapter for LinkedIn

The Adapter for LinkedIn has been introduced in this release and is available as a named adapter on the Web Console in the Social Media folder.

The adapter requires a connection, which stores the access token. A valid LinkedIn access token is needed to issue LinkedIn API calls. The token is associated with a LinkedIn application and LinkedIn user. The access token determines a scope of information available for the user. The connection page provides the following permissions that can be granted to the LinkedIn application:

You can uncheck permissions that should not be granted. The connection process will use only checked permissions. Authentication will take place even if no permissions are granted.

Functionality of the LinkedIn Adapter includes:

For more information, see the WebFOCUS Social Media Integration Guide.


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