I added a custom parameter to my transactions. I am receiving data as when I go to Reports> Realtime>View user snapshot and click on an event I can see the parameter name and a value which is good. I can also see the value when I go to Reports>Engagement>Events and chose and event and select my parameter in the 'Events in last 30 minutes tab'. The issue comes when I go to Explore and make a Free Form with my parameter as a row or column as the column would simply show '(not set)' even though I know it is set from the before views that I mentioned
Thank you
You will see a value of “not set” for a custom dimension during the first 48 hours after you create the custom dimension.
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Ok, I'm trying to track when the users get an empty list of products.
The list is defined by a filter, I want to first know if there's a lot of people getting empty results to take some action like tracking what's the filter combination they're using, anyhow...
To picture it, this is what I want to achieve:
But I'm confused between the custom dimension and custom metrics. In my head, all I need is a custom metric (Cause the amount of empty results sounds like a metric to me).
So I created an "Empty list results" custom metric with the scope of Hit. And I'm passing just an integer 1 to this custom metric.
But it doesn't show what I need. Am I missing something?
UPDATE
Including every hit to the page, even when I'm not sending the custom metric index/value pair
In this example:
/custom-metric-test-1 does not include the custom metric index/value
/custom-metric-test-2 does include the custom metric index/value
But they both show in the report. It's like my custom metric it's just an alias for hits.
You can use a metric or a dimension, it depends on the result you want to get (read), in all cases you can have the number of times a page has a certain characteristic (in your case the empty product list).
Use a custom report, i.e. with flat table, put 'page' as a dimension and your custom metric as a metric. Page and hit are the same scope so the queried pair of elements shouldn't give you strange results.
We track search terms (e.g. michael kors handbags) entered on our site as an event (i.e. captured in eventLabel). We have a custom dimension that parse the list of product ids returned on a search page.
Example:
'michael kors handbag' returned 5 products on search page. Custom Dimension 1 parses a list of product ids: '12345, 23456, 34567, 45678, 56789'. On an event report, when I use this custom dimension 1 as a secondary dimension, no data is returned. I am seeing the two tags fired (i.e. one as an event hit and the other as a pageview hit) - I am not able to figure out why the custom dimension 1 cannot be used as a secondary dimension.
Any insight is helpful.
Thank you.
The dimension needs to be scoped at Session level, so it's available for all the hits within a session.
Probably the dimension is set at hit level, so the information doesn't persist, when you try to relate it to the event, GA cannot do it.
I'm trying to use custom log event to have some statistics of the use of my app.
Events are properly configured and can be seen in the "Stream view" of firebase analytics.
my problem is that i want to display statistics no for only the last 30min.
for exemple if i log an event "car" which contain the property model, which can have the value 'tesla', 'ford' etc... as this :
this.defaultAnalytics.logEvent("car", {model: "tesla"});
I'm able to see in the last 30min like 75% of car.model are tesla in the stream view, but i'm not able to see this for the last week for exemple.
I can only see that the event 'car' has been emit 100 times in the last week but i can't see anything about the value of the property.
I'm i obliged to use a tool as bigquery ?
It depends which charts you want to get, but in general - you don't have to use BigQuery. You can see all your custom event parameters in Firebase console, but you have to register them first:
You can also identify up to 100 custom event parameters per project (50 numeric and 50 text) to include in reporting by registering those parameters with their corresponding events. Once you register your custom parameters, Google Analytics for Firebase displays a corresponding data card in each related event-detail report.
I have created the dimension, it's currently my only one so it has index 1. It has session level scope and is active.
I have also created a custom report to see any results I might get from it. All the report does is show the Session metric against my custom dimension. Nothing extra such as filters.
In my code (which until now was unmodified) I have added the following line between the 'create' and 'send' calls:
ga('set', 'dimension1', 'test');
Nothing is appearing in the report, or anywhere else when I use this dimension as a secondary dimension.
I have tried on a second GA property of mine and it also doesn't work there.
What am I doing wrong?
Generally, it takes 1-3 hrs for the dimension data to show in GA UI. But there are ways to check if the hit you sent contains the dimension or not.
On your browser, check the ga requests ( Like in chrome -> Inspect -> Network -> filter by collect). If you have included the dimension correctly, the pageview hit sent must contain cd1 parameter (1 is the index of the dimension). If the hit contains the dimension and value, then wait for few hours and your report will show the data.
You can also use Google Analytics Debigger to check the requests sent to ga by your website page
I have user-scoped custom dimension and want to see if this dimension is applied to all required events.
I've generated custom report with "Event action" - "Event value" fields and trying to filter it by "Custom dimension" field.
The problem is that there is no such events - no events with empty "custom dimension" value.
Does filter requires custom dimension to be explicitly set (e.g. to empty string) or there is just no events with empty 'custom dimension' value ?
Got answer here: https://productforums.google.com/forum/#!msg/analytics/of_JM1g0lAM/tC59L07fVQgJ
Custom dimensions, like event dimensions, do not have a (not set) or empty value that can be queried. Only events with non-empty values will appear in your report. To get the rest, you need to get the all events total and subtract.
This may be an anti pattern, but technically, you could bypass this limitation by setting your dimensions to a default value.
{{MyCustomDimension}}-foo
Where your empty dimensions would display as -foo and forward.
If the dimension was supplied, you would expect to see it in analytics as the dimension value followed by -foo.
Take click events in google tag manager for example:
{{Click Element}}.{{Click Classes}}
In the example above, we can always expect click element to be defined, but not an elements class attribute.