Google Universal Analytics Advanced Settings

For users who have some experience working with their data in Panoply, there are a number of items that can be customized for this data source.

1. Incremental Load: As a default, Panoply collects all of your Google Analytics data.  If the data selected includes date related dimensions, Panoply will use incremental loads. If the user does not select date related dimensions (or no dimensions at all), the user will only be able to select the date to begin the collection from. This will not change upon successful collections.
2. Destination Schema: This is the name of the target schema to save the data. The default schema for data warehouses built on Google BigQuery is panoply. The default schema for data warehouses built on Amazon Redshift is public. This cannot be changed once a source has been collected.
3. Destination: This is the prefix that Panoply will use in the name of the tables included in the collection.
   • The default prefix for Google Analytics is google_analytics.
4. Truncate: Truncate deletes all the current data stored in the destination tables, but not the tables themselves. Afterwards Panoply will recollect all the available data for this data source.
5. Click Save Changes then click Collect.
   • The data source appears grayed out while the collection runs.
   • You may add additional data sources while this collection runs.
   • You can monitor this collection from the Jobs page or the Data Sources page.
   • After a successful collection, navigate to the Tables page to review the data results.