I created a UserID View for the GA Property and the active users in UserID View is very much less than the normal view..Is this expected?
Yes, as the name suggests the UserID view only contains data where you've set the UserID, thus less than in the normal view where everyone is counted.
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Inside the reports for some of the custom events we have setup, the User_ID is set to 0/(not set), and if we do a comparison with "all users" and "Signed in with UserID" there is a difference. Thus some users are able to trigger the event without having a UserID? Which should not be possible because these events are triggered after login and the assigning of userID is assigned at login?
What possible reason could the UserID be set to 0 or (not set)?
await analytics().setUserId(internalUserID);
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We use: '#react-native-firebase/analytics'
Tested locally via GA debug view and the userID is assigned everytime
There was an edge case where the setUserId was bypassed
I have a question when using the User ID feature to track users across devices/browsers.
If I activate the transfer service from GA to Bigquery in which field will I get that information. Would it use the same fullVisitorId column or a new one will be created?
thanks,
mike
The field is called userId.
More info can be found here. Please note that for this data to appear in BigQuery, you must make sure to select the User ID view when setting up the GA/BigQuery link.
The GUID will be new field and can be found as a custom dimension.
I have been tasked with using Google Analytics to report of use of a desktop app so we can see which parts of the program are being used and how heavily, and potentially also see which companies are using which parts of the program (each company has a unique companyID). Ideally I'd like to be able to look at correlations (e.g., How many users who use report A also use process B?)
I currently have my program set to fire off a call to analytics. I've set it up to use the event tracking, but I'm open to app/screen tracking or something else if something would work better. I'm passing values like
v=1
&t=event // Event hit type
&tid=UA-XXXXX-Y // our ID; real code has valid value here
&cid=12345 // CustomerID
&ec=JobFinancialReport // Event Category
&ea=Run // Event Action
&el=Manager // Event label
&ev=7 // Event value
What I can't figure out is how in Google Analytics to set up reports that would show me something like:
CustomerID Category Label Total Hits Unique Users
12345 JobFinancialReport Manager 27 2
12345 MarketingReport1 Manager 6 4
I'm totally new to analytics so pardon my ignorance if I have some key misconception here. I've searched Googles sites and other questions here, but I may be wording my question incorrectly so I'm not finding something that's there. This is only one example; in some cases we might want to see how broadly each customer is using the program; in other cases we'd want to take the customerID out and just see how much a particular report is being used overall. Appreciate any guidance. Thanks.
The "cid" parameter is the client id, the value that is used to stitch single interactions into sessions and users.
The first problem that comes to mind with your setup is that the client id is not exposed in the user interface (with the single exception of the user explorer report) or the API.
You would need to implement this via a custom dimension (probably user scope, since it probably will never change for a given user) where you pass in the client id (you still need the cid parameter).
Then you could create a custom report (or create a report in Google Data Studio) with the custom value as primary dimension and your selected metric.
If you want to report "Unique Users" you would probably need to create a cid per logged-in user (if all users of the app have the same cid then you will always have but a single user reported). You should then probably create a second custom dimension for the company id, so you can segment your reports by company.
you can use custom reports in google analytics to get your desired output. here is how to create custom reports https://support.google.com/analytics/answer/1151300?hl=en
When regsitering in my site (ASP.Net MVC application), the users get inserted into the aspnet_users table. Since its a shopping site, I would want the users to have a customer id and all their details provided by them at registration in this Customer table as well. How do I link these 2 tables? Is it recommended to use the aspnet_user's UserId(Guid) in the application for other business processes.
Also, I would like to know when should a new record be inserted into the customers table.
I mean, when should a new customer be created. I guess its not good to create a record as ans when users are registered? Here, I want to know whats the norm? I felt it would be better to add it when a user adds an item to the shopping cart. Pls guide me.
Thanks in advance.
Add the UserId field into your customer table and then make a foreign key relationship back to the UserId in the aspnet_users table if you want to enforce relational integrity.
I'm not sure what you mean about when to insert the customer record. As long as you insert it after you have created the user (so that you have the user ID), you should be fine. It can happen in the same postback.
I'm not sure how you are saving the user. As in are you using one of the built-in ASP.Net controls or making the call manually?
If you are using the Membership provider as it sounds like you are, you can save the member using:
var user = Membership.CreateUser;
Guid userKey = user.ProviderUserKey;
//Populate your customer object.
//now use whatever EF/ADO/etc... to save your customer record.
Question No 1
I am familiar with role management, a particular member in a particular role can do this and access this functionally. What I need to do is Manage individual user, not the role he is in.
For example, lets say I create a role, called "Sales". I setup the role permission what the sales persons can do. Now i want to keep a check on individual user. For example if this is "john", i want to show him the records only he created. If his is peter, I want to show him only that records which he created, not by john or other sales people.
Is there a thing called "User Management" in ASP.NET that we can use? If not we have to create it ourselves and I believe the integration with ASP.NET "Role Management" will not be that smooth.
Question No 2.
I am using control for user login. I want to create a session at this time so I can keep track of which user is signed in so I can show him the records only pertaining to him. How can I do that?
Your Q1 isn't really about Role vs User management (ie: authorizations) at this point. It's about audit tracking within your application.
And the way you do that is you capture the ID of the user who created the record in question with the record, so that later you can filter on that ID.
Pseudo database structure
Table Sales
Field...
Field...
Field...
CreatedByUser int not null, -- Populate this on creation and never change it again
ModifiedByUser int not null - populate this on every row update including insert
See ASP.NET Profile Properties.
Assuming the records in the database correspond to a unique ID for a user, you can store the unique id in a profile property per user.
1) If you want to filter records by the creating user, you need to record in your table the ID of the user who created the record. You can access the name of current user through User.Identity.Name and their ID (provider-dependent) through User.ProviderUserKey.
2) Sessions are created automatically in ASP.NET and provided you have a properly configured MembershipProvider, you can retrieve all the needed user info using the User object as shown above.
It sounds like you are a little unfamiliar with ASP.NET Membership and Roles capabilities, because they are actually set up quite well to accomplish what you are describing. I would recommend checking out this tutorial series:
https://web.archive.org/web/20211020202857/http://www.4guysfromrolla.com/articles/120705-1.aspx
You are talking about Authentication and Authorization. For question 1 you and implement a custom authorization provider to allow for user level control http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa479048.aspx For question 2, once you log in and are Authenticated, the session contains a userprinciple object that has the info in it automatically.