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Facebook Ads Connections

Facebook Ads are paid messages that businesses place on Facebook. Ads appear in News Feed on desktop and mobile. For more information, go to https://www.facebook.com/business.

Tip

This connection is in early preview. It is read-only and available only in SaaS product editions. For more information on early previews, go to Early Preview Connection Types.

Limitations and Requirements

Note

During normal selection or import of an entire table, you may encounter an error indicating a problem with a specific column. Since some tables require filtering based on a particular column, data from them can only be ingested using custom SQL statements. In this case, the problematic column can be used as a filter in the WHERE clause of a custom SQL statement to ingest the table.

  • For more information, please consult the CData driver documentation for the specific table.

  • For more information on using custom SQL, go to Create Dataset with SQL.

Note

For filtering date columns, this connection type supports a set of literal functions on dates. You can use these to reduce the volume of data extracted from the database using a custom SQL query. For more information, go to the pg_dateliteralfunctions.htm page in the driver documentation for this connection type.

  • The Facebook Ads Connections requries OAuth 2.0 authentication.

    • The Cloud Portal creates an OAuth 2.0 web client for you.

    • You can't create OAuth 2.0 connections via API.

  • You must authenticate through the OAuth 2.0 web client to enable the connection to work with the Facebook Ads datastore.

Create Connection

Using Alteryx Analytics Cloud (AAC)

When you create the connection, review the following properties and specify them accordingly:

Connection Property

Description

Connect String Options

The following default value sets the connection timeout in seconds:

Timeout=0;

Setting this value to 0 disables timeouts.

OAuth 2.0 Client

The OAuth client is created and selected for you.

Note

When you create the connection in this window, you must select Authenticate to authenticate to the app. This step is required.

Default Column Data Type Inference

Leave this value as Enabled.

For more information, go to the driver documentation https://cdn.cdata.com/help/HRH/jdbc/default.htm

Data Type Conversions

For more information, go to the driver documentation https://cdn.cdata.com/help/HRH/jdbc/default.htm

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