What Are Report Datasources?
Data sources are the connected social profiles from which a report retrieves its data.
When you create a report, you can choose which social profiles to include as data sources. This ensures that the data shown in the report is relevant to the specific social profiles or networks you want to analyze.
What’s Included In Datasources?
Datasources in Statusbrew Reports comprise:
How To Select Datasources?
Go to Reports and open a Report from the Sidebar.
From the Filter bar, click on the datasource selector. You'll see a list of all datasources available.
Each data source includes:
The profile image
The network icon (for social profiles and competitor channels)
The profile name
Competitor channels are marked with
You can scroll through this list or use the search bar at the top to find specific datasources to include in your reports.
Click on the checkbox beside a datasource to include in your reports or deselect the selected checkbox to remove the datasource from a report.
As you select or deselect datasources, the report will automatically update to reflect data from only the chosen datasources.
In the datasource selector, you will find:
Select all: Use this option to include every connected profile in your report.
Frequently used: Datasources you’ve used in recent reports are listed here for quicker access.
Social profiles grouped by network: Click on the checkbox beside a network to select all profiles of a particular network at once.
Brand keywords: If you’re tracking specific keywords related to your brand, these can also be added as data sources to capture data related to mentions or discussions.
Ad accounts: If you’ve connected ad accounts (Facebook & LinkedIn), you can include them to pull ad-related data into your report.
Competitor channels: Select competitor profiles you've added to benchmark your brand’s performance against your competitors.
The datasource field shows a few of the selected datasources, followed by a count of additional datasources included (e.g., +40 more, if 10 data sources are shown and you've selected 50 in total). Hovering over the "+n more" label reveals a full scrollable list of all selected datasources. From here, you can quickly review which datasources are currently included in the report and remove any datasources by clicking (Remove) next to it.
Selecting Data Sources When Creating A Report
When creating a report in Statusbrew, you can choose which data sources the report should pull data from. This applies to both custom reports built from scratch and reports created using templates.
By default, all available data sources are selected when you create a new report.
Clicking inside the datasource field opens the full selector, where you can browse, search, and add or remove datasource as needed.
The datasource field shows a few of the selected datasources, followed by a count of additional datasources included (e.g., +40 more, if 10 data sources are shown and you've selected 50 in total). Hovering over the "+n more" label reveals a full scrollable list of all selected datasources. From here, you can quickly review which datasources are currently included in the report and remove any datasources by clicking (Remove) next to it.
Select Datasources At Section & Widget Level
Datasources can be added at the section and widget levels as filters.
To apply a section-specific data source:
Go to Reports and open the desired report.
Double click on the section tab where you want to apply the data source filter.
Select Edit section from the section options.
In the Edit section dialog box, click Add filter > Data sources.
After selecting the desired condition and choosing the appropriate data sources, click Done.
When creating a widget, click Add condition > Data sources in Select filters section to apply filter of datasources.