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MAKE SURE THAT YOUR BIGQUERY REGION IS “Multi-Region EU
and not another one like “europe-west-6”

Link BigQuery to a Google Analytics 4 property

First make sure you are using an email address that has OWNER access to the BigQuery Project and also EDITOR role for the Analytics property you want to link.

Go to https://analytics.google.com/analytics/web/#/ and check in the admin section the account and property. Then click BigQuery links.

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Click on Link to create a new connection.

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Click Choose a BigQuery project.

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Select your project from the list, then click Confirm.

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MAKE SURE THAT YOUR BIGQUERY REGION IS “Multi-Region EU
and not another one like “europe-west-6”

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Add advertising identifiers if desired and check the frequency options.

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Review your settings and click submit.

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After the link is created it might take up to 24 hours for your data to appear in BigQuery.

You will then be able to query your data.

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Share your datasets access with the Boxalino Service Account emails and the

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Datastudio email

You can share a dataset by clicking on the three dots next to the name and select “Share Dataset”.

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In the Dataset Permissions Click on Add Principals in the top right corner.

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Purpose

General Testing

General Service Account

General Service Account

Access to daily processing

Access to full processing

Access to delta processing

Access for reports processing

Access for lab processing

Access to mailchimp processing

Access for p13nsync processing

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You can copy the list of emails from above and paste them in the “New principals“ field. Provide read access (Data Viewer/Metadata Viewer roles)

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and click on “Save”.

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Let Boxalino know the name of the project and dataset and we will integrate it to your data lake.

Additional Sources: https://www.ga4bigquery.com/tutorial-how-to-set-up-bigquery-linking-in-your-google-analytics-4-property-ga4/