Lithium Advanced Connector

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Intro

Lithium Technologies provides social customer experience management software for enterprise customers. Use Domo's Lithium connector to retrieve data related to forums, such as leaderboards of kudos authors, lists of visiting users, and so on. To learn more about the Lithium API, visit their website (https://community.lithium.com/t5/Community-API/bd-p/developers-rest-api).

The Lithium connector is a "Cloud App" connector, meaning it retrieves data stored in the cloud. In the Data Center, you can access the connector page for this and other Cloud App connectors by clicking Cloud App in the toolbar at the top of the window.

This is the advanced version of the Lithium connector. There is also a standard version that contains fewer reports and configuration options. For more information, see Lithium Connector.

You connect to your Lithium account in the Data Center. This topic discusses the fields and menus that are specific to the Lithium connector user interface. General information for adding DataSets, setting update schedules, and editing DataSet information is discussed in Adding a DataSet Using a Data Connector.

Primary Use Cases	User community management and activity
Primary Metrics	Users with the most kudos Escalated threads Registered users Visiting users Number of posts with solutions
Primary Company Roles	Community roles
Average Implementation Time	1-2 hours
Ease of Use (on a 1-to-10 scale with 1 being easiest)	4

Prerequisites

To connect to your Lithium account and create a DataSet, you must have the following:

The username and password for your Lithium account.
The server URL for your Lithium instance. For example: https://community.company.com

Connecting to Your Lithium Account

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

Credentials Pane

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

Field	Description
Username	Enter the username for your Lithium account.
Password	Enter the password for your Lithium account.
Base URL	Enter the server URL for your Lithium instance. For example: https://community.company.com

Once you have entered valid Lithium credentials, you can use the same account any time you go to create a new Lithium DataSet. You can manage connector accounts in the Accounts tab in the Data Center. For more information about this tab, see Managing User Accounts for Connectors.

Details Pane

This pane contains a primary menu from which you can select a report, along with various other fields and menus that may or may not appear depending on your selected report.

Description

Report

Select a Lithium report. The following reports are available:

Custom Report URL	Returns the custom report URL.
General Metrics for a Board	Return metrics for a specific board: nested boards views, message views, subscription sent and threads escalated.
General Metrics for a Category	Return metrics for a specific category: nested boards views, message views, subscription sent and threads escalated.
General Metrics for the Entire Community	Returns metrics for the community: board views, message views, subscription sent and threads escalated.
Leaderboard of Kudos Authors	Returns a list of the users who have received the most kudos in the community. (Leaderboard must be enabled in the community for this report to run.)
List of all Posts in the Chosen Board(s)	Returns a list of all posts for the selected boards.
List of Escalated Threads	Returns a list of escalated threads in the community.
List of Posts	Returns a list of posts for all or selected boards.
List of Solutions	Returns a list of accepted solutions for all or selected boards.
List of Registered Users	Returns a list of registered users in the community.
List of Visiting Users	Returns a list of users who visited the community during the specified time period.
Number of Kudos	Returns the number of kudos for the entire community.
Number of Posts	Returns the number of posts for one or more boards.
Number of Registered Users	Returns the number of registered users in the community.
Number of Replies from a User	Returns the number of replies from a user.
Number of Replies in the Community	Returns the number of replies in the community.
Number of Solutions	Returns the number of solutions for the entire community.

Time Period

Select the desired time period for the report data. If you select All, all available data is shown.

Days Back (Optional)

Enter the number of past days of data to be retrieved. For example, if you entered 30, data would be retrieved for the last 30 days.

All or Specific Boards

Select whether you want your report to show all boards or one or more specific boards.

Boards

Select the boards you want to retrieve data for.

Data Retrieved

Select whether you want your report to return all data or only new data since the last successful run.

Users

Select the user you want to retrieve data for.

Data Aggregation

Select how you want the data in the report to be broken down.

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 Data Connector.

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