As part of the Application Insights custom telemetry I create and send from my application, I can provide custom properties with Events that I choose to track. Those are then available later within the normal AI UI or Analytics interface to query against. Similarly, when a user begins a session, I can use the AI API to set the app-defined user identifier or an app-defined session identifier.
But is there a way to do a cross of the two? For example, is there a way that I could set a custom property for a given user (such as an audience or role she is part of)? Or a way to set a custom property for a given user session? (perhaps the connection type or company branch office they are in) There are plenty of predefined sort of user- and session-related properties that AI implicitly associates with each user session. (like city, country, device, etc.)
I would really like to set properties like these one time for that session (or user) and then be able to associate other activities during that user session with these properties. (such as custom events, metrics, trace entries, etc.) What I need to avoid is having to set such properties with every event, every trace, or every metric logged (e.g., with an ITelemetryInitializer), because I've got about 25 different ASP.NET apps instrumented on the client and server side and a couple of separate SaaS apps instrumented only on the client side. To try to introduce custom extensions and then continually and repeatedly determine the custom properties to be added to everything logged would be a monumental undertaking across a lot of teams.
Is this possible? If so, how? I haven't been able to find any mention of it in the API documentation and Intellisense snooping in the C# API has similarly turned up nothing obvious. (e.g., with Microsoft.ApplicationInsights.Channel.ITelemetry.Context.Session or .User)
Yes, you can set property once per session. Then use join to associate it with the rest of events.
For instance, below query counts events per session and then associates this count with custom property. After that it can be piped for further aggregations if needed.
let events = customEvents
| where timestamp > ago(1d);
events
| summarize count() by session_Id
| join kind=inner (
events
| where name == "MySingleEventPerSession"
| summarize any(*) by session_Id
) on session_Id
| project count_, any_customDimensions.MyCustomProperty, session_Id
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I have been trying to understand the concept behind google client id, set as fullvisitor id in BigQuery Export Schema
I know that to define a session, a unique combination of fullvisitorid and visitid has to be found.
However,I couldn't find a good explanation regarding how google defines this id, and how permanent it is across sessions.
Thank you very much!
I'm not sure about what you didn't understand, but the client id is generated on the user's browser when the GA script is initialised and stored in the cookie.
After that, every hit sent by that instance of the script [that has the cookie] will have the cid value as the client id.
When implementing GA you can also set that value yourself if you want. Although there are better ways for doing that.
Here's some documentation on the cid and here is how the session is defined (thus how the session id is derived during data collection)
Currently I am using 'Session' to keep the datatables in memory.
But after doing few R&Ds, I came to know the it is not a good practice
e.g.
Session("Syllabus") = RegistartionLogic.GetSyllabusInfo(Session("StudentID"))
Requirement:
The items of dropdown will be different based on student-type.
The dropdown data will be fetched from DB and these controls are used
in more than one screen.
Multiple DB call is not preferred from different screens for same
data.
So I need to call only one DB call, keep the data in memory and
then read data from memory next time onward.
I tried with 'cache' as well, but the issue was "Cache is not unique to the user.The scope of the data caching is within the application domain unlike "session". Every user can able to access this objects".
Kindly help me out.
For your scenario, HttpContext.Current.Cache should work.
Yes cache is not unique to the user. But cache key can be made unique.
var studentId = GetStudentIdFromRequest();
var cacheKey = "SyllabusInfoCacheKey_" + studentId;
Then you can make use of the unique cachekey, to insert and later get values for the particular student.
Session is also at Application level. Every user has a ASP.NET_SessionId cookie that is sent from client side and used at the server side to store/retrieve values.
Note: For Session and Asp.Net Cache to work in a load balanced environment, load balancer should be sticky.
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
I am building a website users have to pay for different functions. For example the user have payed for "packet 1" for the current month and it includes "short messages". How can I check, if a user is allowed to send sms? Updating the user/role relations every night or is there anything more dynamic?
You could add custom voter, where you can check if a user is allowed to use certain service. See example here:
http://symfony.com/doc/current/cookbook/security/voters.html
You can create a table in a database which has a foreign key to a table of which contains different packages, a foreign key to your user table and finally a column which indicates the expire date of the package.
If the package is not found for that user and for that expire date then the user is not allowed to send sms.
You can use some other storage procedures but using a database makes most sense.
Basically: You don't want to update anything, you simply want to store certain information like the expire date (and maybe the starting date if you want to change the expire duration) and compare to that selected value.
I have an .aspx form with 20 fields that must be disable based on a users role and a status of a order record. Currently the application has 5 roles and 3 status, so I have 300 different possible conditions that I have to account for.
My first thought is to store each permutation in a table, then set the fields when the page loads by looping through the fields. Is there a better way? Please note, I am using .Net 2.0 and NOT MVC.
I'd probably store the details of each field, and then the roles and status that can edit them, and do it that way.
What are the rules for the system? Basically, are there really 300 possible conditions? Or is that really certain fields are only editable for certain status, and then only certain roles can edit those fields? Or is it that certain fields are available for certain roles as well?
If it's more of the former I'd probably have something like this:
Three primary tables (makes it easy to extend if you add a field, role or status):
Fields
Roles
Status
Then two link tables:
Field.Id and Role.Id
Field.Id and Status.Id
Then for any given order and user you can then find which Fields are editable for the order's current status, and the users role, and as you work through the fields set the access rights appropriately - however you set the controls - either dynamically generating them based on the collection you get back, or statically on the page.
If you have an issue where the Role can override the Status, you could also store a boolean in the Field/Role table, indicating whether the Field should be avaiable regardless of status.
Like another responder, we also use a Business Object framework called CSLA. CSLA implements field-level security checks by requiring class developers to do security checks in the property get/set calls. A typical property implementation looks like this:
Private mFirstName As String = ""
Public Property FirstName() As String
<System.Runtime.CompilerServices.MethodImpl(Runtime.CompilerServices.MethodImplOptions.NoInlining)> _
Get
CanReadProperty("FirstName", True)
Return mFirstName
End Get
<System.Runtime.CompilerServices.MethodImpl(Runtime.CompilerServices.MethodImplOptions.NoInlining)> _
Set(ByVal value As String)
CanWriteProperty("FirstName", True)
If value Is Nothing Then value = ""
If Not mFirstName.Equals(value) Then
mFirstName = value
PropertyHasChanged("FirstName")
End If
End Set
End Property
Notice the calls to CanReadProperty and CanWriteProperty. The second parameter specifies that the method should throw an exception if the user is not authorized to perform the specific read/write operation.
The implementation of the CanReadProperty and CanWriteProperty are provided by the framework's base class but should be reproducible without adopting the entire CSLA framework. The implementations check an AuthorizationRules data structure which defines who is allowed/denied Read/Write access based on roles. Often, the AuthorizationRules structure is populated during object creation.
Exposing the same CanReadProperty and CanWriteProperty methods to your presentation-tier allows you to enable/disable UI elements based on the current user's access rights. For example:
FirstNameTextBox.ReadOnly = Not CanWriteProperty("FirstName", false)
Hopefully this information will provide you with a good starting point for developing your own implementation. If you're interested in learning more about CSLA then check out Expert C# 2008 Business Objects.
I suggest to use third party framework to achieve this. We use CSLA framework in our projects. It allow us to set authorization at field level.