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Ignite connection guide

Follow these steps to connect your Ignite data to Supermetrics and use your data in Google Sheets, Looker Studio, Excel, and Power BI, as well as the Supermetrics API. You can also connect to data sources from the Supermetrics Hub.


You can share your data source connection with your team and use the connection across all data destinations you use with Supermetrics. Learn more about shared connections.


Before you begin

To connect Supermetrics to your Ignite account, you need a client ID and client secret from your contact person at RealEstate.com.au.


Query types

  • Campaigns: Measure the performance of your property campaigns.


Instructions

Google Sheets

Make sure you've installed the Supermetrics add-on before you connect.

  1. Open a new Google Sheets file.
  2. Navigate to ExtensionsSupermetricsLaunch sidebar to open Supermetrics.
  3. Click Create new query.
  4. Under Data source, select Ignite.
  5. Enter your client ID and client secret.
  6. Give your login a name. The name can be anything — its purpose is for you to recognize the login later in case you have multiple logins.
  7. Choose to make this connection shared or private.
  8. Click Start.

Learn about advanced settings, best practices, and troubleshooting tips for Supermetrics for Google Sheets.

Looker Studio

Make sure you've connected Supermetrics to Looker Studio before following the steps below.

  1. Open the Supermetrics Looker Studio data source gallery.
  2. Navigate to Ignite and click Start free trial.
  3. You'll see two buttons that read Authorize. If you're using Supermetrics for the first time, click the left-hand one and log in with the Google Account you use with Supermetrics.
  4. Once that's done, or if you've done it before, click the right-hand Authorize button (under "Ignite requires authorization to connect to data").
  5. Select a team that has access to the account you want to connect.
  6. Enter your client ID and client secret.
  7. Give your login a name. The name can be anything — its purpose is for you to recognize the login later in case you have multiple logins.
  8. Choose to make this connection shared or private.
  9. Click Start.
  10. Select the query type, and click Next.
  11. In the pane's top right, click Connect.
  12. Click Create report.
  13. Click Add to report.

Learn about advanced settings, best practices, and troubleshooting tips for Supermetrics for Looker Studio.

Excel

Make sure you've installed the Supermetrics add-on before you connect.

  1. Open an Excel file.
  2. Click DataShow Supermetrics.
  3. Under Data source, select Ignite.
  4. Enter your client ID and client secret.
  5. Give your login a name. The name can be anything — its purpose is for you to recognize the login later in case you have multiple logins.
  6. Choose to make this connection shared or private.
  7. Click Start.

Learn about advanced settings, best practices, and troubleshooting tips for Supermetrics for Excel.

Power BI
  1. Log in to the Supermetrics Hub.
  2. In the left-side menu, under Export, click Power BI.
  3. Click Select data source.
  4. Select the Ignite data source.
  5. Enter your client ID and client secret.
  6. Give your login a name. The name can be anything — its purpose is for you to recognize the login later in case you have multiple logins.
  7. Click Start.
  8. Fill in the query details.
  9. Click Run query to test your query.
The Supermetrics API
  1. Log in to the Supermetrics Hub.
  2. In the left-side menu, under Transform, click Query Manager (API).
  3. Select for Supermetrics API from the dropdown menu next to the page title.
  4. Click Select data source.
  5. Select the Ignite data source.
  6. Enter your client ID and client secret.
  7. Give your login a name. The name can be anything — its purpose is for you to recognize the login later in case you have multiple logins.
  8. Click Start.
  9. Fill in the query details. See detailed instructions on how to set up a Supermetrics API query in Query Manager.
  10. Click Run to test your query.
Supermetrics Hub
  1. Log in to the Supermetrics Hub.
  2. In the left-side menu, select ConnectData sources.
  3. Scroll down to the list of data sources you haven't connected to. You see this list below your existing connections, under the title Connect to new data source.
  4. Hover over the Ignite data source, and click Connect.
  5. Enter your client ID and client secret.
  6. Give your login a name. The name can be anything — its purpose is for you to recognize the login later in case you have multiple logins.
  7. Click Start.


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