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aaronwayneNew Member
asked in Data Instrumentation
Segment Events Missing Product Properties

I’m new to Amplitude. I started sending Segment order events into Amplitude and i’m seeing that all of the properties within the the ‘products’ object are not appearing. The other top-level properties are working fine. Some examples of the properties that are missing::products.$.name products.$.brand products.$.priceAny ideas what’s going on?

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Amplitude Admin
Community Manager
3 years ago
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Novice
AbeedaNovice
asked in Data Instrumentation
How to get the list of super users

I want to create a list of my super users, which chart/feature is the best way to figure out that user list? My parameters of a super user are; revenue, responses, frequency of polly creation

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ning.chang
Team Member
3 years ago
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andreas_hedenConversationalist
asked in Data Instrumentation
Add list of values to event property

Hi there, I have a long list (80-100) of various product IDs that I want to add to various events. The IDs don’t have a common category, so usually I have to add them manually. I’ve read posts about various matching (I’m new to using query and regex), so I hope Amplitude has some way for me to add all IDs to the property, by a simple copy-paste. Usually when adding manually, it’ll look like the following image. I’ve tried adding the IDs as a single string, but no matter which sort of matching I’m using, I’m getting 0 event hits. Is there a smart way to do this?  NB: ‘contains’ is dangerous to use as we have IDs (e.g. 1234) on the list, that also matches IDs (e.g. 12345 or 12346) outside the list.

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Conversationalist
3 years ago
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AkshayNew Member
asked in Data Instrumentation
Is Amplitude also useful for Blogger

how can amplitude will help me as a blogger to understand my user to grow my blog - techglover

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belinda.chiu
Team Member
3 years ago
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g.owusuNovice
asked in Data Instrumentation
Data Discrepancy

We have an amplitude connector extracting data from our app. The data is available on the amplitude dashboard and also on our snowflake api. We compared the data loaded via the amplitude connector to snowflake with that in the amplitude dashboard and we are seeing differences in the sessions measure. Also the session_id is not converting to an accurate timestamp of the relevant session.

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belinda.chiu
Team Member
3 years ago
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jnazemiNew Member
asked in Data Instrumentation
Issues using the Revenue LTV REST Endpoint

I’m currently trying to pull revenue data for specific users out of Amplitude using the Revenue LTV endpoint but getting some unexpected behavior.Before I even added a segment definition to define specific users in the request I wanted to understand its behavior and I’m not getting the results I’d expect.GET https://amplitude.com/api/2/revenue/ltv?start=20210415&end=20210422&m=2&i=1Is the request I’m making. From the documentation I thought this would be the daily (i=1) TOTAL REVENUE (m=2) of our Users. However my response is essentially empty data:{    "data": {        "series": [            {                "combined": {                    "count": 0,                    "paid": 0,                    "r1d": 0,                    "r2d": 0,                    "r3d": 0,                    "r4d": 0,                    "r5d": 0,                     ….This continues for every day in the range. I make the same request except change the interval to 7 and…GET https://amplitude.com/

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Amplitude Admin
Community Manager
3 years ago
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ValeryiaNew Member
asked in Data Instrumentation
Google Optimize results in Amplitude

Hi community  Do you know any way how we can show the results of A/B tests (as well as other tests) we run in Google Optimize in Amplitude?We thought about inserting a JavaScript string into each variant and creating an event for each of these in GTM but ithasn’t been tried yet doesn’t seem like an optimal solutionDo you have any better suggestions? Thanks! 

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eddie.gaona
Team Member
3 years ago
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KoshNew Member
asked in Data Instrumentation
Is there any way of grouping OSes my their major version?

Is there any way of grouping OSes my their major version?I have a lot of different versions of OSes which are recorded for the events from our app like ios 14.4, ios 14.2, ios 14.3, ios 14.4.2, ios 13.7, ios 13.6.1, ios 13.5.1 etc. Is there any way of making a chart with grouping them by their major version number like 12.X, 13.X and 14.X ?

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Saish Redkar
Expert
3 years ago
Saish Redkar
Expert
Saish RedkarExpert
asked in Data Instrumentation
Govern : Approving properties in Portfolio View

Hello!We are pretty heavy on querying our cross project portfolio view consisting of multiple production source projects. Currently, even after approving the unexpected events and their properties in the individual source projects, I have to approve them in cross project view also . Is this the expected behavior? Thanks!

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Saish Redkar
Expert
3 years ago
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wayzerNew Member
asked in Data Instrumentation
Retention cURL on Dashboard Rest Api

Hello, I've been trying to get the retention using a starting event and return event.The cURL that i'm using (excluded the auth header): https://amplitude.com/api/2/retention?se=\{"event_type":"ce:notification_open_event"\}&re=\{"event_type":"Start%20Session"\}&start=20210412&end=20210415notification_open_event is a custom event and i'm trying to use the amplitude default event Start Session as well.the cURL keeps returning 400: Bad Request (Unable to create definition from arguments)the documentation (https://developers.amplitude.com/docs/dashboard-rest-api#retention-analysis) states that “Full event for the start action. Supports two "event_type" values: "_new" for new users, and "_active" for all users.”. Can it be a custom event as well? If not, what would be an alternative to do the same but with a custom eventThanks!

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jarren.patao
Community Manager
3 years ago
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samratNew Member
asked in Data Instrumentation
Use taxonomy Api to delete the event property

Hello, I am exploring the taxonomy api (https://developers.amplitude.com/docs/taxonomy-api).The requirement is to programatically delete the event-properties from the event.Assume that there is some event with name `Watched Videos` which contains numerous event_properties. I need to delete some specific event property from the event. e.g `1962_Artwork` is an event property in the event `Watched Videos`.I was trying to use the taxonomy api , below attached is the curl command and error. curl -u <api_key>:<secret> -X DELETE https://amplitude.com/api/2/taxonomy/event-property/1962_Artwork\?event_type\=Watched%20Video  | jq '.' | lessresponse{  "errors": [    {      "message": "Attempted to remove an event property, \"1962_Artwork\" for event \"Watched Video\", that is not a planned event property."    }  ],  "success": false}Also tried using adding this property in the planned properties from the amplitude ui (https://help.amplitude.com/hc/en-us/articles/360047579471-Plan-even

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tracy.guo
Team Member
3 years ago
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RaymondHoNew Member
asked in Data Instrumentation
Event disappeared after approval

Hello Team,I have sent a new event to Amplitude, but not seeing it in the Events tab, but I can find it in the Home → Unexpected Errors page, then I approved the event. However it is disappeared, and couldn’t find it anywhere. Can you please help?Thanks

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3 years ago
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daikiNew Member
asked in Data Instrumentation
How to add data source from the screen of "Send using the HTTP API"

I do not know the next step to add data source from the screen of "Send using the HTTP API"Could some one teach me the procedure until using this function? 

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3 years ago
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jakehong0521Novice
asked in Data Instrumentation
Disabling metric tracking during development

Just like the title, I’m wondering if there is any simple way to disable logging for few reasonsI’m developing a new feature for frontend and don’t want to send events that are created from interacting with the website I’m running an automated E2E testing and don’t need to log events from the testing

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Novice
3 years ago
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jack.hobbsNew Member
asked in Data Instrumentation
Combine Tag Manager SDK with hardcoded events

Can I implement the SDK on web vis Tealium IQ tag manager and  also hard code an event on the page, is there any risk that this will be processed differently?

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jarren.patao
Community Manager
3 years ago
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BabysharkNew Member
asked in Data Instrumentation
Start Session as an event

Hi, I have two questions about setting and modifying events. 1. ‘Start Session’ as an eventI’ve known that ‘Start Session’ and ‘End Session’ events which are offered by amplitude automatically are visible on the ‘Pathfinder’ and ‘User Session’ chart. What if I want to use that on the other charts as an event? I checked this link and sent it to our developer, but he said it seems not possible because our app is made by react-native. (https://help.amplitude.com/hc/en-us/articles/115002323627-Tracking-Sessions) Is there any way to set up these to the event?  2. Change the name of event property valueAs changing our data structure, I’d like to change the name of the event property value. I thought it’s possible on the page ‘GOVERN’ but it just allows to change property name, not value name. Can I change it?  Thanks!

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jarren.patao
Community Manager
3 years ago
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ucsbvb07New Member
asked in Data Instrumentation
Best CMS that integrates with Amplitude?

Hi all, Does anyone have preferences on CMS platforms that integrate well with Ampltiude?Currently we are on Wordpress, but want to shift to a more robust platform.Thanks!

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belinda.chiu
Team Member
3 years ago
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kkarunakaranNovice
asked in Data Instrumentation
Amplitude Revenue [Verified] event on Amazon Kindle Fire

Hello, I’m implementing revenue tracking for Amazon devices. I’m getting the revenue event but not the revenue [Verified] event. I’m testing the purchases through amazon live testing.  user id= 4c93461e-a86b-4c35-9647-0b3a514fe255amplitude id 244677427764Receipt{"receiptId":"7ScSG2szT5w1BZPK96qE_Cw2iqxySSeg7uVMSVOu1pY=:1:12", "itemType":"CONSUMABLE", "purchaseDate":"Tue Mar 23 13:08:05 GMT-04:00 2021", "sku":"com.budgestudios.UnityIAP.Consumable2.A"}Receipt SigRevenueKbQOplsthESb_PSIxBlCV4vhUkxumfBCdRQTTJL4iCg= Event properties  

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jarren.patao
Community Manager
3 years ago
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jchenn14New Member
asked in Data Instrumentation
With iOS14 removing visibility, we want to make sure we can continue to give our clients the confidence in investing in paid channels. How do we set up the right data points / assumptions to make up for the loss of attribution visibility?

Challenge:Most people will opt-out of sharing their privacy info when iOS14 fully rolls out and sends those notifications. Once that happens, FB (and other paid channels) will underreport on its performance of how many people converted from their platform, and product analytics will begin to lose key visibility. What can we set up on the product analytics / attribution side to solve the lack of visibility?Are there any formulas, or assumptions that could be in place to estimate actual FB conversions from the under-reported performance numbers FB shows?Need to figure out:Primary: Understanding how to make sure data integrity post-iOS 14 implementation is correct, and what specific actions we can take to solve for the data/attribution loss (assumptions? working with 1st party data sets? etc).Secondary: we currently use reporting/data on Kochava. Once SKAN compatible campaigns are up and running, understanding what it can/can’t tell us.Right now data flows to Kochava, and Amplitude. Also

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belinda.chiu
Team Member
3 years ago
serene.gan
Team Member
serene.ganAmplitude Support
posted in Data Instrumentation
Troubleshooting Attribution - It's Not Rocket Science!

Hi there Amplitude Community!Today I wanted to cover a topic that our team fields many a question about - troubleshooting missing events from our attribution partners.Quite a few of our customers make use of our various integrations to pipe in mobile attribution data. To date, we have direct integrations with Adjust, AppsFlyer and Branch - just to name a few.  How the Attribution Integrations WorkAll of our attribution integrations use the Amplitude Attribution API to send data to Amplitude. This API was built primarily to collect attribution campaign events that contain attribution information, then match it with users via the Advertising ID (IDFA/IDFV/ADID). Things to Look Out For Since attribution is matched to Amplitude users via the Advertising ID, this data has to be included in attribution requests (set the IDFA, IDFV, and ADID fields where relevant) Advertising ID also has to be included in non-attribution events so that there’s something to match against Matching is case s

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Saish Redkar
Expert
3 years ago
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PolNew Member
asked in Data Instrumentation
Events appearing in user look-up but not in govern

Hello,I have a very simple but big problem:some of my events (example “Viewed Home Screen”) appear in the event stream of user look-up but they do NOT appear in the list of events in the “Govern” sectionAs a consequence, I can’t create event segmentation charts based on these events, while Amplitude receives well the events. What can I do?Thank you in advance!Pol

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3 years ago
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dshenNew Member
asked in Data Instrumentation
OPTIONS request with "request-id" is blocked

When using Amplitude and AppInsights together on the client side, the browser is flooded with error messages like below. Access to XMLHttpRequest at 'https://api.appcues.net/v1/accounts/111111111111111' from origin 'http://222222222222' has been blocked by CORS policy: Request header field request-id is not allowed by Access-Control-Allow-Headers in preflight response.Is is possible to make appcues accept the “request-id” header for OPTIONS request?

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3 years ago
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JacksonNew Member
asked in Data Instrumentation
What is the best way to analyze buttons click?

What is the best way to analyze buttons click? For instance, I have a flow of purchase with a few clicks with no particular events in it -- just a regular click with confirmation of the action. What is the best way to track it in Amplitude? My idea was to make ‘Click On’ with properties named for different buttons.​​​​​​​For instance registration flow:1)‘Click On’buttonName = Sign Up in header2)‘Click On’buttonName = Register NowIs it the right way to do such things?

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Saish Redkar
Expert
3 years ago
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jj41Novice
asked in Data Instrumentation
Can we change the display name of a user property?

I have a user property that is sent with every event, named “country_cd”. It shows up as “country_cd” in the dropdown. I was wondering if I could change the display name of this property to “Country”, while keeping the field name as “country_cd” in our CSV.Thanks!

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Saish Redkar
Expert
3 years ago
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castor-radieuxNovice
asked in Data Instrumentation
Good practices: how to test our app event trace.

Hello,Our app is evolving, we would like to make sure the tracking of our events is stable.It would be damageable, and hard to fix, if we realise after releasing the new version of our app, that some changes in the code made some event not be tracked anymore (refactoring, replacing features, ...). But that is what tests are for ! A test could perform “a normal walkthrough” of the app, and check that the event trace of this walkthrough is stable. How does those tests look like ? Does the Amplitude community has best practices for this use case, maybe a playbook, and eventually point to code or a git repository ?   

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jarren.patao
Community Manager
3 years ago

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