Collecting data from Webgains

This guide explains how to collect data from Webgains. To learn how to collect data from a different data source, go back to the Available data sources in Adverity overview.

Introduction

Prerequisites

Before you start collecting data from Webgains, perform all of the following actions:

• Ensure you know the Advertiser ID on which you want to collect data and the Program IDs for which you want to filter when collecting data.

Creating a datastream to collect data from Webgains

The basics of creating a datastream to collect data from any data source are explained in our guide to Creating a datastream. This guide contains information about the specific steps to create a datastream to fetch data from Webgains.

Authorization: Allow Adverity to access Webgains

1. If you choose Access using your credentials or Access using someone else's credentials, in Set up or edit Program IDs, you or the person granting access must choose one of the following options:

   • Choose Grant access to all items, including those created in the future to give Adverity Program IDs to access all existing items and all items created in the future.

   • Choose Select specific items to which you want to grant access to only give Adverity Program IDs to access the selected items. Adverity will not automatically have access to items created in the future. You will need to grant Adverity access to any items created in the future.

   If you use your credentials to grant Adverity access to Webgains, all the items available to you using your credentials will be visible in the Authorizations page to all Adverity users with permission to edit this authorization.

   If someone else uses their credentials to grant Adverity access to Webgains, the same applies to the items available using their credentials.

   This is important to consider if you do not want all Adverity users with permission to edit the authorization to be able to see the details of the authorization items. For more information about user permissions, see Managing user permissions.

Configuration: Choose the data you want to collect from Webgains

To choose what data to collect and customize the Webgains datastream configuration, follow these steps:

1. (Optional) Rename your datastream.

2. In Report type, select the type of data to collect from Webgains.

3. In Program IDs, enter the program IDs for which you want to filter when collecting data. To enter multiple program IDs, enter the IDs as a list, separated by commas.

4. In Transaction type, select the type of transactions for which you want to collect data.

5. In Period, select the period for which you want to collect data.

6. In Status, select the status labels for which you want to collect data.

7. In Event type, select the event type for which you want to collect data.

8. In Currency, select the currency in which you want to collect data.

What's next?

• Apply Data Mapping to your collected data to harmonize data collected from different sources in Adverity.

• Transform your data to meet your needs by creating and applying transformations to your datastream.

• Load your data into Explore & Present to visualize your data in Adverity

• Load your data into an external destination of your choice