Google Sheets is a web-based spreadsheet program offered by Google, providing a collaborative platform for creating, editing, and sharing sheets. It allows data entry, calculations, charts, and can be accessed with ease on multiple devices.
Google Sheets allows users to edit, organize, update, and analyze business data from a wide variety of sources. Like any spreadsheet, it allows you to use built-in formulas, pivot tables, and conditional formatting to gain new insights and share them instantly with your team. Google Sheets also has built-in charts you can use to visualize your data, but there is no way to easily combine charts into a cross-functional dashboard or report. That’s where Databox shines.
You can use Databox with Google Sheets to create beautiful and insightful visualizations of your data. One of the key benefits of Databox is its ability to combine multiple data sources in one place. You can pull data from multiple Google sheets or ranges within them to create custom dashboards showing the most important KPIs for each segment of your business or each initiative you undertake. The Google Sheets integrations with Databox makes it easy to select the data you want from multiple sheets and ranges, choose the right way to visualize the data, and design your dashboard with just a few clicks. You can size and arrange each dashboard metric to tell your data story in the most compelling way.
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For Google Sheets, Databox does not enforce file size or number of cells limits. However, Google does have limits in place for their API. Google allows 10 MB file downloads and the files themselves have a 10 million cell limit. A Google Sheets file exceeding either one of those limits will not work in Databox.
Databox requires that the value in a cell is defined as a number and when a cell displays #DIV/0 (divide by zero) error, the value assigned to this in Databox is number 7.
We advise users to handle division by 0 in their sheet directly. There are multiple ways to do this, here is an example: How to Remove #DIV/0! in Google Sheets
Google Sheets files large in size and by number of cells and using additional styles/formatting/images in worksheets can cause longer loading times in the Metric Builder. In such cases, users are advised to:
– Remove all images from file. – Split the file into several smaller files and connect them separately to Databox. – Remove any custom cell formatting (fonts, styles, alignment, colors). – Deduplicate and aggregate values wherever possible. – Remove any unused sheets/ data.
Check if the sheet/tab contains a Pivot table. Pivot Tables are not currently supported and cannot be synced with Databox, hence they will appear empty in Metric Builder.
If the special characters ‘!’ and ‘:’ are used in the sheet tab name of the Google Sheets file, custom metric can not be saved or viewed because those are characters reserved for A1 notation.
This can be resolved in two ways:
1) rename the sheet tab, so that the tab name will not use any of the two characters (!, : ), or
2) if the data from the same tab is also used in formulas in other tabs or other Google Sheets files, duplicate / replicate the same tab as a new worksheet tab with a different name (one that does not use any of the two characters). Replication can be done by using: =, arrayformula(), importrange() or copy/paste if no new data will be added/updated.