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Intro

LiveRail is an industry-leading online video monetization platform for agencies, advertisers, publishers, and networks. LiveRail provides video ad serving, real-time bidding, delivery, optimization, and analytics along with VAST and VPAID compliance. LiveRail’s API system is a powerful interface that enables clients to interact programmatically with the LiveRail Platform. You can connect to your LiveRail account in the Data Center. This topic discusses the fields and menus that are specific to the LiveRail connector user interface. To add DataSets, set update schedules, and edit DataSet information, see Adding a DataSet Using a Connector.

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Prerequisites

To connect to your LiveRail account and create a DataSet, you must have the username and password associated with your LiveRail account.

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Connecting to Your LiveRail Account

This section enumerates the options in the Credentials and Details panes on the LiveRail Connector page. The components of the other panes on this page, Scheduling, and Name & Describe Your DataSet, are universal across most connector types and are discussed in great detail in Adding a DataSet Using a Connector.

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Credentials Pane

This pane contains fields for entering credentials to connect to your LiveRail account. The following table describes what is needed for each field:

Field

Description

Username

Enter the username associated with your LiveRail account.

Password

Enter the password associated with your LiveRail account.

Once you have entered valid LiveRail credentials, you can use the same account at any time to create a new LiveRail DataSet. You can manage connector accounts in the Accounts tab in the Data Center. For more information about this tab, see Manage Connector Accounts.

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Details Pane

Menu

Description

Report

The following reports is available.

Report Name Description

Statistics Aggregated

This report fetches the aggregated statistics information from the data warehouse.
Entity/Account Id Enter the entity id.
Select dimensions Select the dimensions.
Select Metrics Select the metrics.
Duration

Select the duration for the report (a Single Date, or a Date Range).

Report Date Select the report date using relative or specific dates. Relative means the number of days from today or a specific date using the date selector.
Select Specific Date Select the report date using the date selector.
Days back

The number of days back that would like to fetch the data for. Specify either today or 0, yesterday or -1, or today -7 or 7 to get the data for 7 days into the past.

Start Date

Select the report start date using relative or specific dates. Relative means the number of days from today or a specific date using the date selector.

Select Specific Start Date

Select the report date using the date selector.

Days back to start from

The number of days back that you would like to get the data from (start day). Specify either today or 0, yesterday or 1, or today-7 or 7 to get data for 7 days into the past.

End Date

Select the report end date using relative or specific dates. Relative means the number of days from today or a specific date using the date selector.

Select Specific End Date

Select the report date using the date selector.

Days back to end at

The number of days back that you would like to get data to (end day). Specify either today or 0, yesterday or 1, or today-7 or 7 to get data for 7 days into the past.

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Other Panes

For information about the remaining sections of the connector interface, including how to configure scheduling, retry, and update options, see Adding a DataSet Using a Connector.