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GoodData is a business intelligence and analytics platform. It is built around a semantic layer, a shared set of metric definitions that dashboards and reports reuse. The GoodData connector lets your Lovable app browse the workspaces, metrics, attributes, and saved visualizations in your GoodData Cloud organization and compute report data from them. It works with GoodData Cloud, GoodData’s managed analytics product. GoodData is available as an app + chat connector: one shared connection that works in the project chat while you build and in your published apps. With GoodData, your app can:
  • List the workspaces in your GoodData Cloud organization
  • Browse each workspace’s metrics, attributes, and facts, the building blocks of its semantic model
  • Discover saved visualizations and analytical dashboards
  • Compute report data with the metrics and groupings your team already defined
Use GoodData when your app needs the metrics your team already maintains in GoodData’s semantic layer, instead of recreating the calculations in your app.

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Common use cases and example apps

These examples show what you can build with GoodData, each with a prompt to start from.

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How to connect GoodData

Who can create GoodData connections depends on your plan and workspace settings. App + chat connectors are available by default on Free, Pro, and Business plans. On Enterprise plans, they are effectively disabled at first: Who can create connections and clients defaults to No one until an admin changes it in Connectors → Admin settings → App + chat connectors. You can create multiple GoodData connections using different organizations or API tokens, which is useful for separating environments or giving different projects different levels of access. When the connection is created, you can link it to the projects where you want to use it. Anyone building in a project can ask Lovable in the project chat to link their project to it.

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Prerequisites

Before connecting GoodData, make sure you have:
  • A GoodData Cloud organization, reachable at your GoodData Cloud URL, for example https://<org>.cloud.gooddata.com
  • A GoodData API token (Step 1 shows where to create it). By default, only GoodData admins can create API tokens. To let another user create one, a GoodData admin must give that user the SELF_CREATE_TOKEN organization permission
  • Permission to create connections in your Lovable workspace (see Who can create connections and clients)
Report computations made through this connector run on your GoodData Cloud organization and use its resources. Billing and quota are handled directly by GoodData, not Lovable.

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Step 1: Create a GoodData API token

The connector authenticates with a GoodData API token. The token acts as the GoodData user it belongs to and sees whatever that user can see, so give that user only VIEW permission on the workspaces your app reads. VIEW is enough to browse the semantic model and compute reports through the API. To create a GoodData API token:
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Sign in to GoodData Cloud

Sign in to your GoodData Cloud organization at your GoodData Cloud URL, for example https://<org>.cloud.gooddata.com.
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Open personal access tokens

On the GoodData Cloud homepage, go to Settings. In the Developer section, next to Personal access tokens, click Manage.
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Create the token

Click + Create, type a descriptive name for the token, for example Lovable, and click Create.
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Copy the token

Copy the token.
Your API token functions like a password. Store it securely, and paste it only into the connection form in Lovable. Do not put it in a prompt, a chat message, or your app’s code. A token that belongs to a GoodData admin lets your apps do anything that admin can do.
See GoodData documentation for more: Create an API access token.

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Step 2: Connect GoodData to Lovable

Open the connection form and enter the values from Step 1.
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Open GoodData in Connectors

Open Connectors and select GoodData. For the other places to open the catalog from, see Where to find connectors.
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Add a connection

Click Add connection and select App + chat connector. The form is split into collapsible sections, Details, Configure connection, and Sharing.
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Name the connection

Under Details, Lovable fills in a name for the connection, which you can change. The name is only used inside Lovable to identify the connection.
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Configure the connection

Under Configure connection, enter:
  1. GoodData Cloud URL: the https URL of your GoodData Cloud organization, for example https://yourorg.cloud.gooddata.com.
  2. API token: the token from Step 1.
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Choose who can use this connection

Under Sharing, the connection is private to you by default and shows a Private label. To share it, click Share with others. Then add workspace members by email, or click Invite entire workspace to make the connection available to everyone in your Lovable workspace.Everyone with access queries GoodData as the token’s user. See Who can use connections and clients for more information.
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Connect

Click Connect. Lovable verifies the API token against your GoodData Cloud organization before saving the connection.
When connected, anyone building in a project can ask Lovable in the project chat to link their project to GoodData (based on configured connection-level access). Your Lovable apps can then browse your workspaces and compute reports from your metrics. In the project chat, Lovable reads your workspaces, metrics, and visualizations without asking. It asks for your approval before each report computation. A computation only reads data, but GoodData runs it through the same kind of request that it uses for changes. If you select Always allow, Lovable can run all later requests on that connection without asking. This includes requests that change data, if the token’s user has permission to make them. See Approving connector actions in the project chat. A published app does not ask for approval. If the API token changes, open the connection in Lovable and click Update under Configure connection to replace it.

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Limitations

The GoodData connector cannot:
  • Connect to GoodData Platform, GoodData’s older product. The connector works with GoodData Cloud organizations.
  • Embed GoodData dashboards or visualizations in your app. The app computes report data and renders it with its own components. To embed a GoodData dashboard where each viewer signs in, use GoodData’s own embedding with your organization’s URL.
  • Support per-end-user GoodData login. Each connection represents a single API token shared across all projects linked to it.

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Manage your GoodData connection

Connections are managed from Connectors: select GoodData, then open the connection.
  • Unlink projects to remove GoodData access from specific projects while keeping the connection available for others. See Unlink projects from a connection for the steps.
  • Delete the connection to remove it from the workspace entirely. Deleting is permanent. It removes the credentials from all linked projects, and app features that use GoodData stop working until a new connection is added. See Delete a connection for the steps and who can delete.