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bblais
Resolver III
11 years ago

Issue Connecting to Google Analytics

For weeks now I've been working with a person in my organization to connect to GA and create a dashboard to no avail.  She creates the dataset successfully and after the final step of logging into th...
Greg_Deckler's avatar
Greg_Deckler
Community Champion
11 years ago

I had a Google Analytics account setup already. I added another account/property just now and it came in OK, no errors or issues.

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    TPalmer
    Microsoft Employee
    11 years ago

    I would suggest double checking the account/property/view values your providing as those values will be case and spacing sensitive. We're working to improve the validation flow but if the parameters are not provided correctly you may see the error experience you've described. The help documenation walks through where you can find these values in your Google Analytics account: https://support.powerbi.com/knowledgebase/articles/511323-google-analytics-content-pack-for-power-bi

    • bblais's avatar
      bblais
      Resolver III
      11 years ago

      Thank you.  I had all the correct values for account/property/view the first time we successfully connected, but unbeknownst to me and my co-worker the account/property values changed in GA.  Once we got the correct values, it worked.

       

      Thanks.

      • bblais's avatar
        bblais
        Resolver III
        11 years ago

        This was my bad, but it would be great if the generic 400 status code error with no context or description could tell me that the values provided were invalid...

         

        Thanks,