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Google Analytics connector missing startdate/enddate parameters
Hi,
For some reason the discussion forum won't let me respond to your most recent post, so I'm responding to this one.
By client-side, I mean that the sum is being calculated by the client - Power BI in this case - as opposed to server-side (in GA). Query folding to GA cannot work if the GA query includes the date dimension, which it still does after adding the filter. You'll see this if you look at the GA API call being made.
The correct answer from GA for my query "users last month" is 893. Power BI is reporting 1034, which is the sum of the users on each of the 31 days. "users" and perhaps half of the other metrics cannot be aggregated client-side, and so Power BI is reporting incorrect values. For query folding to work against GA, it would have to remove the date dimension from the API call - which is clearly not happening.
intrasight - have you found a solution to client vs. server side calculation yet?
If not, take a look at Scitylana
Then you will be able to import un-aggregated Google Analytics data into PBI or even choose to have it in a database and run direct query.
You can try it here, www.scitylana.com