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Jivrus Looker Studio Connectors help you bring your business data into Google Looker Studio for powerful visualization and reporting. To ensure you get the best experience, performance, and insights, this guide outlines proven best practices for connector setup, data management, and report optimization.
1. Understand Core Features
1. Understand Core Features
Before diving in, familiarize yourself with the capabilities of Looker Studio. Learn about widgets, sharing options, and interactive visualizations. Focus on clarity, usability, and purpose in your reports.
Best Practices:
Use widgets meaningfully and avoid cluttered dashboards.
Set clear sharing permissions and collaboration rules.
Embed dashboards thoughtfully to maintain usability and performance.
2. Manage Multiple Google Accounts Effectively
2. Manage Multiple Google Accounts Effectively
Account switching is a common cause of authorization errors. Avoid being signed in with multiple Google accounts when configuring connectors.
Best Practices:
Use a dedicated account for connector authorization.
Log out of other Google accounts when granting permissions.
Document which account is used for connector access across your team.
3. Use Date Range Controls Smartly
3. Use Date Range Controls Smartly
Proper use of date range controls allows dynamic reporting and optimized query performance.
Best Practices:
Include a valid date field in your data source.
Use default ranges (e.g., Last 28 days) logically.
Apply filters to limit large data volumes and improve loading speed.
4. Know about App Interfaces Concepts
4. Know about App Interfaces Concepts
App Interface Concepts includes different concepts that acts major role in connecting your app with Looker Studio Connector.
Best Practices:
Knowing about API ratelimit helps to you to not stuck with rate limit error.
With pagination you will know, how many records it will fetch per API call.
Connectors have supported different type of authentication. Knowing this helps you to get credentials or authorize easily.
5. Support Multi-Data-Center Configurations
5. Support Multi-Data-Center Configurations
Some systems have data spread across multiple regions.
Best Practices:
Connect to the correct regional data center.
6. Define Custom Objects and Fields Clearly
6. Define Custom Objects and Fields Clearly
When using CRMs or ERPs, connectors often expose custom fields.
Best Practices:
Use descriptive and consistent field names.
Avoid renaming or removing fields.
If you did any changes to your fields in the appa, then refresh the schema in connector first. Then refresh the report.
7. Plan for Data Blending
7. Plan for Data Blending
Combining multiple data sources requires consistency in structure and keys.
Best Practices:
Ensure blending keys (e.g., IDs, dates) align properly.
Normalize data granularity.
Avoid unnecessary or heavy blends that can affect performance.
8. Maintain Data Freshness
8. Maintain Data Freshness
Timely data updates are critical for accurate insights.
Best Practices:
By default connector's data refresh time set to 12 hours.
You can manually refresh the report to see new data within auto refresh time.
But avoide repeated refreshing the report to avoide API rate limit issue.
9. Optimize for Performance
9. Optimize for Performance
Efficient connectors and well-designed dashboards improve the user experience.
Best Practices:
Filter and limit data at the query level.
Avoid high-cardinality fields in visualizations.
Use caching or pre-aggregated datasets where possible.
10. Be Aware of Account Limitations
10. Be Aware of Account Limitations
Each connector and source API has its own quota limits.
Best Practices:
Monitor API usage.
Optimize queries to minimize API calls.
Educate users on connector limits and recommended usage.
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