The connection string properties are the various options that can be used to establish a
connection. This section provides a complete list of the options you can configure in the connection
string for this provider. Click the links for further details.
For more information on establishing a connection, see
Basic Tab.
Authentication
| Property | Description |
| AccountId | Identifier of the advertising account. This Id is used to get analytic stats for the
account that is identified by this Id. The AddAccounts view can be used to list available
accounts with their specific Ids. |
| UseAppOnlyAuthentication | A boolean that indicates whether or not you would like to use app-only authentication.
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OAuth
| Property | Description |
| InitiateOAuth | Set this property to initiate the process to obtain or refresh the OAuth access token when
you connect. |
| OAuthClientId | The client Id assigned when you register your application with an OAuth authorization
server. |
| OAuthClientSecret | The client secret assigned when you register your application with an OAuth authorization
server. |
| OAuthAccessToken | The access token for connecting using OAuth. |
| OAuthAccessTokenSecret | The OAuth access token secret for connecting using OAuth. |
| OAuthSettingsLocation | The location of the settings file where OAuth values are saved when InitiateOAuth is set
to GETANDREFRESH or REFRESH. Alternatively, this can be held in memory by specifying a value
starting with memory://. |
| CallbackURL | The OAuth callback URL to return to when authenticating. This value must match the
callback URL you specify in your app settings. |
| OAuthVerifier | The verifier code returned from the OAuth authorization URL. |
| AuthToken | The authentication token used to request and obtain the OAuth Access Token. |
| AuthKey | The authentication key used to request and obtain the OAuth Access Token. |
| OAuthExpiresIn | The lifetime in seconds of the OAuth AccessToken. |
| OAuthTokenTimestamp | The Unix epoch timestamp in milliseconds when the current Access Token was created. |
SSL
| Property | Description |
| SSLServerCert | The certificate to be accepted from the server when connecting using TLS/SSL. |
Firewall
| Property | Description |
| FirewallType | The protocol used by a proxy-based firewall. |
| FirewallServer | The name or IP address of a proxy-based firewall. |
| FirewallPort | The TCP port for a proxy-based firewall. |
| FirewallUser | The user name to use to authenticate with a proxy-based firewall. |
| FirewallPassword | A password used to authenticate to a proxy-based firewall. |
Proxy
| Property | Description |
| ProxyAutoDetect | This indicates whether to use the system proxy settings or not. This takes precedence over
other proxy settings, so you'll need to set ProxyAutoDetect to FALSE in order use custom
proxy settings. |
| ProxyServer | The hostname or IP address of a proxy to route HTTP traffic through. |
| ProxyPort | The TCP port the ProxyServer proxy is running on. |
| ProxyAuthScheme | The authentication type to use to authenticate to the ProxyServer proxy. |
| ProxyUser | A user name to be used to authenticate to the ProxyServer proxy. |
| ProxyPassword | A password to be used to authenticate to the ProxyServer proxy. |
| ProxySSLType | The SSL type to use when connecting to the ProxyServer proxy. |
| ProxyExceptions | A semicolon separated list of destination hostnames or IPs that are exempt from connecting
through the ProxyServer . |
Logging
| Property | Description |
| LogModules | Core modules to be included in the log file. |
Schema
| Property | Description |
| Location | A path to the directory that contains the schema files defining tables, views, and stored
procedures. |
Miscellaneous
| Property | Description |
| IsPremiumTwitter | When true, enables access to the Premium Search API. This is false by default. |
| MaxRateLimitDelay | The maximum amount of time to delay (in seconds) before submitting a request if it would
be rate limited. |
| MaxRows | Limits the number of rows returned rows when no aggregation or group by is used in the
query. This helps avoid performance issues at design time. |
| Other | These hidden properties are used only in specific use cases. |
| Readonly | You can use this property to enforce read-only access to Twitter from the provider. |
| SearchTerms | Default SearchTerms if none are specified. Used for some tables such as Tweets where
SearchTerms may be specified. |
| StreamPageSize | The number of results to return per page of data retrieved from the Twitter stream. |
| StreamReadDuration | This property represents the maximum time to read streaming data, in seconds. |
| StreamTimeout | The maximum number of seconds to continue waiting for results while streaming. When this
value is reached and no tweets are returned, then the connection will be closed. |
| Timeout | The value in seconds until the timeout error is thrown, canceling the operation. |
| UserDefinedViews | A filepath pointing to the JSON configuration file containing your custom views. |