Create Streak-Connected Visualizations in Klipfolio

Klipfolio is an online dashboard platform for building real-time business dashboards for your team or your clients. When paired with CData Connect Server, you get instant access to Streak data for visualizations, reports, and more. This article shows how to create a virtual database for Streak in Connect Server and build visualizations from Streak data in Klipfolio.

CData Connect Server provides a pure SQL Server interface for Streak, allowing you to easily build reports from live Streak data in Klipfolio — without replicating the data to a natively supported database. As you build visualizations, Klipfolio generates SQL queries to gather data. Using optimized data processing out of the box, CData Connect Server pushes all supported SQL operations (filters, JOINs, etc) directly to Streak, leveraging server-side processing to quickly return the requested Streak data.

Create a Virtual SQL Server Database for Streak Data

CData Connect Server uses a straightforward, point-and-click interface to connect to data sources and generate APIs.

1. Login to Connect Server and click Connections.
2. Select "Streak" from Available Data Sources.
3. Enter the necessary authentication properties to connect to Streak.

   Use the following steps to generate a new API key for authenticating to Streak.

   1. Navigate to Gmail
   2. Click on the Streak dropdown to the right of the search bar
   3. Select the Integrations button. This will open a window where you can view existing integrations and create new API keys.
   4. Under the Streak API section of integrations, click the button to Create New Key.
4. Click Save Changes
5. Click Privileges -> Add and add the new user (or an existing user) with the appropriate permissions.

With the virtual database created, you are ready to connect to Streak data from Klipfolio.

Connect to Streak in Klipfolio

The steps below outline connecting to CData Connect Server from Klipfolio to create a new Streak data source.

1. Open Klipfolio
2. Click in Data Feeds on the left panel to add a new data source.
3. Search for and select MS SQL as the Service.
4. Click "Create a custom MSSQL data source"
5. Configure the data source by setting the SQL Server connection properties:
   • Host: your instance (e.g., CONNECT_SERVER_URL)
   • Port: 1433
   • Database: your database (e.g., Streak1)
   • Driver: MS SQL
   • Username: your Connect Server username
   • Password: your Connect Server password
   • SQL Query: any query to retrieve data (e.g., SELECT * FROM Users)
   • Select the checkbox to "Include column headers"
6. Click "Get data" to preview the Streak data before building a data model.

Build a Data Model

After retrieving the data, click "Continue." In the new window, configure your data model.

1. Confirm that the model includes all columns you wish to work with
2. Name your model
3. (optional) Set the Description
4. Set "Header in row" to 1
5. Click the toggle to "Exclude data before row" and set the value to 2
6. Click "Save data feed"

Create a Klip

With the data modeled, we are ready to create a Klip (or visualization) of the data to be used in the Klipfolio platform for dashboards, reporting, and more.

1. Click "Add Metric"
2. Select a measure, placed on the y-axis, to track.
3. Select up to five dimensions/columns, for the x-axis, that you wish to visualize.
4. Click "Save metric"

SQL Access to Streak Data from Applications

Now you have a Klip built from live Streak data. You can add it to a new dashboard, share, and more. Easily create more data sources and new visualizations, produce reports, and more — all without replicating Streak data.

To get SQL data access to 200+ SaaS, Big Data, and NoSQL sources directly from your applications, try CData Connect Server.