I know how to add collaborators to a Firebase project, and that I can assign specific roles to each collaborator, which are tied to certain permissions.
However, no role seems to fit my requirements.
I want to share access to Firebase Analytics with non-technical, marketing people. I have to avoid exposing the rest of Firebase to them, especially the Database and Storage buckets.
Since I could not find anything about this in the Firebase Analytics documentation, I'm assuming that this is not (yet) possible using Firebase alone.
I also found a comment by a Firebase engineer here, which indicates that Firebase does not support this for the time being:
We're aware that role-based access to specific Firebase features would
be useful to a lot of our developers. But as usual, we don't commend
on whether or when this will be implemented. – Frank van Puffelen Jun
2 at 9:36
Is there any way to share the data from Firebase Analytics? Perhaps on another platform, where the collaborators cannot see anything about the other features of Firebase?
I have the feeling that I'm missing something. Shouldn't it be possible to simply link Firebase Analytics with Google Analytics, in such a way that marketing people, who are used to Google Analytics already, have a familiar experience (similar to website analytics) doing their app analytics tasks?
you can connect Google Analytics and Firebase. To get more detailed how to do it, you can visit this website:
https://support.google.com/analytics/answer/2587086?hl=en&ref_topic=2587085
It's at least a solution to seperate marketing and development.
You can build your own custom dashboard by retrieving your firebase dataset and customize that for your clients. Firebase has access for it dataset. For more information visit following links
https://firebase.google.com/docs/reference/rest/database
https://firebase.google.com/docs/database/rest/retrieve-data
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I am attempting to track certain events in Buildfire's platform and have a few questions. I've integrated Firebase into a plugin not using the Buildfire API but by following Firebase's steps to integrating with a web app.
I'd like to be able to register the following events but don't see them mentioned in the Buildfire Wiki:
When a user signs up (creates an account) on an app - I believe Firebase registers users anonymously the first time they use an app since Firebase has been integrated but was wondering if there was a signup event when a user actually creates an account to distinguish between people who view the app and those who create an account
Paywall view (when a user tries to see premium content and is directed to the paywall).
When a user subscribes to a paid plan - additionally, I'd like to access the subscription information such as the price of the subscription.
These events would help drive funnels and deliver better conversion rate statistics. I've looked but just haven't found the documentation related to tracking these events within Buildfire. I've looked at the getUser methods under Authentication in Buildfire's API but don't see any user information returned regarding subscriptions.
Any information would be appreciated!
There are many ways to accomplish what you are looking for. I'll try to describe several so you can pick the method that best suits you.
Use the BuildFire integration with Firebase. This doesn't really change much on your implementation. However, you now will have the BuildFire Auth Servers sending your Firebase server, secure user information along with User Tags. If you have the user tagged when they view premium content, then you can run queries on this directly in firebase.
https://github.com/BuildFire/sdk/wiki/Buildfire-Firebase-Integration
Send your Analytics to BuildFire. This way you have one spot to view the users' journey
https://github.com/BuildFire/sdk/wiki/How-to-capture-Analytics-for-your-plugin
For more advanced analytics and funnel creation you can send your analytics to BuildFire and use BuildFire's integration with Segment.io which will allow you to pipe the data into your database, google analytics, mixpanel, or anyone of the hundreds of integrations they have.
https://learn.buildfire.com/en/articles/3225298-how-to-integrate-segment-with-your-app-for-additional-analytics
Okay, some heads-ups as I feel I'm an idiot and missing some simple stuff. As far as I understand Google Analytics works with a 3 tiers system: account -> property -> view. and I should be able to manage these 3 levels via the google analytics management api.
For some context as to why I encounter this issue. I am making a CMS in which I want to register a new google analytics account per user, and a property per website this user has. (implementation and usage of views out of scope for now, I will implement those on a later date). To achieve all of this I started following Google's documentation on the Google Analytics Management API (according to Google this is what manages accounts, properties and views). Therefor I have made a service-user-account which should have enough permissions to manage GA-accounts.
However I can't seem to be able to create a new account via the API. Am I missing something obvious? Is it not possible at all this way? If so, how then? Because my goal is to have GA on every website, without the user having to config anything.
You can't do it. The management API only allows for the list operation on accounts: https://developers.google.com/analytics/devguides/config/mgmt/v3/account-management#account_summaries
The only solution would be to use the Provisioning API. It can be used to create new Google Analytics accounts and enable Google Analytics for your customers at scale: https://developers.google.com/analytics/devguides/config/provisioning/v3/
Anyway, the Provisioning API is currently available by invitation only.
So I will try to explain myself the best I can, and I would really appreciate any help!
May main Goal here is to export FireBase data to a DataStudio. I know how easy this is, just link FireBase to BigQuery and create a DataStudio with this data source. There's even already an awesome template for this.
But is not that simple, I work at an agency, this is a huge corporate client and their internal people work is a mess.
The problem here is: I can get "property" access to Firebase, and I have linked my Bigquery account to this project, but what I can't see is the whole app information in Bigquery.
What I see is the data from "crashalytics", "messaging", "performance" and predictions.
But can't seem to find the "normal info" off the app, the events, conversions, audiences, etc...
This is where I can't understand some things that I would like you to help me with, I have some theories.
In the configuration of bigquery integration on firebase I have every switch marked as "On" but one, the analytics one.
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Now here is where all my questions come:
- ¿Do I need this switch to be on so I can visualize, for example Events or users information on Bigquery?
If so, what is the realtion between Firebase and Google Analytics?:
- ¿Is it necesary to have a Google Analytics account integrated with the Firebase project in order for bigquery to extract the data and show it?
- ¿Can I extract directly through firebase the data without Google analytics?
And an extra one: If I remove the Google Analytics account from my Firebase project, and add a new one, ¿Would the new Google Analytics also have the data so I can extract it with Bigquery and build my panel?
The biggest problem here is that this Firebase account was created long ago, and the client haves no idea what Google Analytics account is Linked to the Firebase project, they know nobody with acces to it, and they say "I'ts an old analytics, we only need Firebase information to show on datastudio" but I'm starting to feel this is not possible without this Google Analytics acces.
Pleaaase some help with this.
Thank you very much in advance.
I solved it, if anybody comes to this problem, the problem was I needed permision to the analytics web + app created from firebase.
I have been searching all over for this, and I just haven't been able to find a clear answer to my questions.
I'm developing an app for a client and using Firebase as my backend (it's my first time). I need each user account to have it's own calendar.
I will be using the Firebase O-Auth but I don't want my app to see or edit a users auth account calendar (ie: if a google user logs in I don't want to edit their google calendar). I want our database to store a unique calendar for each unique user.
Will the calendar API allow me to do this? The app could potentially have thousands of calendars. I've seen some docs about limits, but it seems like limits on api calls, which I don't have any estimates for at this time.
Would a service account be appropriate for this application?
I've checked these other posts, but they don't quite answer my questions:
How to create a scalable calendar service backend for an Android app?
Google Calendar API - Designed for?
Any kind of insight would be much appreciated. Thanks!
Generally what we do in this case is create calendars using documents and collections within Firebase. Here is an example of a calendar app that uses Firebase to store its appointments. It is written in Flutter, but the backend design for Firebase should be easy to understand.
https://www.syncfusion.com/kb/12067/how-to-work-with-the-firebase-database-and-the-flutter-calendar-for-appointments
In realtime database I have exactly 448101 users that authenticated by different providers. Is there any easy way to filter how many users sign-up with facebook, twitter, google or anonymous-login? I believe this feature should be in the analytics section of firebase console.
Thanks
There is no such feature in the Firebase Console at the moment. But it sounds reasonable, so I suggest you file a feature request.
In the meantime: since you say you have the users in the database, you might be able to derive the data from there, or at least start tracking it there.