Is there a way to retrieve customevents params from GA4 Data API?
Everytime I tried and run it as shown in google's API doc it returns me this error:
details = "Field customEvent:parameter_name is not a valid dimension. For a list of valid dimensions and metrics, see https://developers.google.com/analytics/devguides/reporting/data/v1/api-schema "
It may depend on when the parameter was created and the name you are using to call it.
From documentation:
The Data API can create reports on Event and User scoped Custom Dimensions. See Event-scoped custom dimensions and metrics reporting and Custom user properties to learn more about custom dimensions. Custom dimensions are specified in an API report request by the dimension's parameter name and scope. For example, include "customEvent:achievement_id" in a Data API request to create a report for the Event-scoped Custom Dimension with parameter name "achievement_id". This API request will fail if the property has not registered this Event-scoped Custom Dimension.
If an Event-scoped Custom Dimension was registered before October 2020, the dimension must be specified in an API request with its event name. For example, include "customEvent:achievement_id[level_up]" for the Event-scoped Custom Dimension with parameter name "achievement_id" and event name "level_up". In October 2020, Analytics replaced Custom-parameter reporting with Event-scoped custom dimensions and metrics reporting.
https://developers.google.com/analytics/devguides/reporting/data/v1/api-schema
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Is there a way to retrieve the user_pseudo_id field from GA4 api? It is not present in the dimensions list of the documentation but neither was the clientId for UA although it could be specified as a dimension.
See reference for clientID parameter in the older GA-UA APIs.
I need to retrieve historical data from GA4 and import them into Google BigQuery but not all export's fields are present in the GA4 api.
You will need to pass it as a custom user parameter via Google Tag Manager. Just need to set it once and then the rest of your GA4 tags will inherit it. Here’s a pretty good tutorial on how to do this: https://www.simoahava.com/gtmtips/write-client-id-other-gtag-fields-datalayer/
I've created a custom dimension to pass the user-_id (a shopify customer id) to a custom report in GA, however it's not populating. Steps I've taken:
1. Defined custom dimension in GA called "User ID" with scope User
2. Configured in Tag Manager in page view tag, a new variable to capture the user_id from the data layer.
Following is a screenshot from the Tag manager assistant:
Creating a custom report with this new dimension and other metrics
Any idea why it's not passing the data?
You have to send the value to Google Analytics as custom dimension.
So, you have to add the index of the custom dimension and its value in 'Custom Dimensions' field in the Google Analytics tags or its shared settings variable:
I have implemented GTM and GA with event based tracking. Alongside events tracking I have implemented custom dimensions and Custom Variables. In all the pages All defined Custom metrics and dimensions are populated according to needs , which is giving empty data in some cases.
for Ex. When user Registers on our page their Registration will be added to data layer object for custom dimensions but this info is not available on every part of the website..
Kindly help and suggest what to do . Do I need to create several tags for specific conditions or track the issues with develops where they can give custom info when the data is not available .
If you pass in an "undefined" value to a custom dimension or metric then Google Analytics will just treat it as if the dimension or metric was not set at all. I.e. you will not have "undefined" in your reports, but no value at all. So you could just ignore the issue.
As an alternative you could set a default value that is used when no other value is available (i.e. for filtering).
I want to query the google analytics realtime api using one of my custom dimensions.
In the regular api (not realtime) I can do this as follows:
'metrics': 'ga:pageviews',
'filters': 'ga:pagePath=~/myPath*;ga:dimension2=='+myVal
However, when I change the metrics to 'rt:activeUsers', I got the error:
"Unknown dimension(s): ga:dimension2"
when I did the request.
I changed the separator in the filters string from semi-colon to & and I didn't get the error any more, but the result always returns 0
Is it possible to do filtering on the realtime api? TIA
The realtime API does not support custom dimensions (you can see the list of supported dimensions and metrics here). On possible reason is that at least the values for session- and user-scope dimensions cannot be determined in realtime since realtime reports based on hits. So you cannot filter based on a custom dimension.
There is a possible workaround, but that comes with a caveat that makes it mostly pointless. You can create an additional data view, and then use an advanced filter to copy the custom dimension value for the hit to a dimension supported by the realtime API - e.g. you extract the value from your custom dimension and copy it to the "source" field (or some other field). Then you query for/ filte by the source field to retrieve the value. The caveat is that the original value of the source data field (or whatever field you overwrote) will be lost.
Can I use client ID as a dimension in my reports? Client ID does not appear as a dimension in the Dimensions and Metrics Explorer, but I believe I can create a custom dimension that will store the Client ID. My end goal is to have a row per customer/date+time containing the incidents associated with the particular customer at the particular time, e.g. page visits, particular events etc
Once you've created the custom dimension in GA, you can start tracking it via analytics.js with the following code:
ga(function(tracker) {
// Assumes dimension is at index 1.
tracker.set('dimension1', tracker.get('clientId'));
});
I found that the google analytics will NOT save your custom dimension if it matches the value of "client id" (even if that id isn't actually PII). However, if you alter the "client id" to become a different value, it will save properly.
Here are the guidelines about what you are allowed to send