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basilerohartNew Member
asked in  Building and Sharing Your Analysis
First session analysis for a specific screen during onboarding

Hi, I’d like to do the following analysis for all users who sign up to my app, so only their first session. I already did a funnel analysis until they reach the home of the app. This analysis is focused on this specific screen (home) : average lenght of time on this screen.  most common actions on this screen which lead to subscribe. most common actions on this screen which lead to drop-off. user path (but only for first session).Thanks in advance !  

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3 years ago
Saish Redkar
Expert
Saish RedkarExpert
asked in Product Personalization and Audience Segmentation
Unable to view Custom Marketo Boolean Field after sync completion

Hello!Many a times I want to verify if I have synced a given cohort to the correct Marketo field. It appears that I'm not able to view the Custom Marketo Boolean Field after a sync is performed. Once you sync, the only option is to resync it or set up a new field for another sync. Is there a way to view this field after a sync is performed?Ideally, seeing this field alongside the following details for a cohort will be helpful - Thanks!

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Saish Redkar
Expert
3 years ago
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rayqNew Member
asked in  Building and Sharing Your Analysis
Surfacing analytics to my end users (white-labeled embedded analytics)?

Hello, I have an engineering team that built an app that allows users to create profiles. I want to show my users analytics, i.e., how many visitors came to their profiles. What’s the best way of doing this using amplitude? Thanks!

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Nadia
Team Member
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
Nicol Hawkins
Team Member
Nicol HawkinsAmplitude Support
posted in  Building and Sharing Your Analysis
Get creative with custom bracket retention!

First, a little background. If you didn’t know, Bracket Retention offers more flexibility and freedom than N-Day retention; it allows you to define your retention period. Essentially, this powerful tool can be used to analyze retention based on your product’s specific usage interval.  Bracket retention allows you to define any bracket of time you want, from a single day/week/month to multiple days/weeks/ months. On the x-axis, N-day retention maximums are 30-day, 24-week, and 12-month retention respectively. But what if you’re hoping to see beyond the default scope? Custom brackets make this possible! Say you’re looking to see weekly retention for the entire year. Using weekly granularity, you can create custom brackets for all 52 weeks of the year:  Amplitude will conveniently save your custom brackets to the metrics module. That way you can easily reference the same 52-week bracket again for future retention charts. How have you tried using custom brackets in your analysis?

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Nicol Hawkins
Team Member
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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ashwin.araokarNew Member
asked in  Building and Sharing Your Analysis
How to track total time spent by user on a particular page?

Hi All, Needed to track total time spent by a user on a particular page on my web app. Is it possible to track page views and within page views is it specifying the time spent by a user on a page. Is there any option to start and stop tracking pageview on a particular page?Urgent help needed.Regards,Ashwin

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Saish Redkar
Expert
3 years ago
Saish Redkar
Expert
Saish RedkarExpert
asked in  Building and Sharing Your Analysis
Creating a behavioral cohort via API

Hi everyone,Is there way to programmatically create a behavioral cohort via some API endpoint?I have used the Dashboard REST API to build some custom event charts for some of my use cases, but was curious to know if we can input some basic parameters and clauses in a similar way to create cohorts as well.Thanks! 

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eddie.gaona
Team Member
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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CoreyNew Member
asked in  Building and Sharing Your Analysis
Total events and unique users changes when group by is used

Hi all, Why did the total number of events reduce when I include a user property into group by?Has this got to do with the pruning that is being applied?https://help.amplitude.com/hc/en-us/articles/360031259831 The user property is the company ID a user is tied to.Below is before group by with a user property for a particular event, performed by any users.For eg. there are 421 events in Feb 21  Below is after I add the company ID into the group by, for the same event, performed by any users.Feb 21 now has 130 events.It is possible that a user from a company ID, performs multiple events in the same month, but we are counting events here, so that should not be the reason, why it gets reduced.  The opposite can happen if I group by a user property like ‘role’ in which the user can have multiple roles. Again for the same event, performed by any users. We can see Feb 21 total events went up to 813.  Is there a concept/principle on how amplitude groups the data, that I am missing?Any ideas o

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Amplitude Admin
Community Manager
3 years ago
morvik
morvikNew Member
asked in  Building and Sharing Your Analysis
Finding drivers of long term retention

Hi,I’m working on finding drivers of long term retention in our SaaS product (long term in this case means that customers stick around for at least a year or more). I.e. the question I want to answer is: ‘What events or properties are leading indicators of long term retention?’I’ve used both the Compass feature, as well as the cohort comparison feature to try to answer this question, but I find that it’s hard to use them with such a long time frame. I’m curious to hear how other Amplitude users would approach this problem!

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Saish Redkar
Expert
3 years ago
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sebNovice
asked in  Building and Sharing Your Analysis
Can I createa a cohort with users who have signed between 24 and 72 hours ago?

The title basically. I am looking to create a cohort of new users who’ve been on the app for at least 24 hours, but less than 72. Is this possible to achieve? So far I’ve only managed to create a filter that checks for a new user at any time in the last 3 days, but not one that checks that they signed up at least 24 hours ago.  

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sydney.koh
Team Member
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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brunolucasNew Member
asked in  Building and Sharing Your Analysis
IF statement in an analysis?

Hi everyone!I keep track of where we get applications on our website via amplitude. Today, I do so using utm’s, but we still cannot attribute a majority of where our applications came from :(However, I recently added referrer and referring domain as a second potential source. What I want to do now, is create an analysis where I sort my users by utm_source or referrer. To be more specific, if the user has an utm_source, mark her as such. If no utm_source, then mark by referrer. If the user has neither an utm_source or a referrer, then mark as (none). Is it possible to do so?For reference, this is a graph I have today, with applications per utm_source  

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Saish Redkar
Expert
3 years ago
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castor-radieuxNovice
posted in  Building and Sharing Your Analysis
Amplitude Release monitoring is surprisingly uninformative

Hello,I am surprised how little information comes with the release feature: a few adoption metrics, and the proportion of new events that were added to the release.Where are the dashboards with event deltas, new paths, retention updates? Because of the semantic versioning, all the data is accessible; so is monitoring release from Amplitude not considered like a real use case? Happy to discuss about how the community approaches release monitoring.  

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sydney.koh
Team Member
3 years ago
Amplitude Admin
Community Manager
Amplitude AdminCommunity Manager
published in  Building and Sharing Your Analysis
What is Your Favourite Event Segmentation Chart Feature?

Greetings, space travellers and fellow Datamonsters! Here’s a question for you: What’s your fave Event Segmentation chart feature? We want to see the creative ways you’re using our most popular chart type!I’ll start! I love the Formula tab for its flexibility and the flare it brings my analyses… I mean, who isn’t impressed by the ability to quickly calculate the number of users between two user segments?Here’s one I prepared earlier: https://analytics.amplitude.com/demo/chart/new/euyoc4mLet’s hear all your fun, tried and tested ways of using this powerful space-time bending tool. 

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tracy.guo
Team Member
3 years ago
eddie.gaona
Team Member
eddie.gaonaAmplitude Support
posted in Data Instrumentation
Can I track attribution data via the JS SDK?

This is a common question we receive in our Support queue! Currently, it’s not possible for Amplitude’s JS SDK to ingest ADID, IDFV, or IDFA data in Amplitude.The current solution is to use the HTTP API V2 to send in the advertising IDs for your users. Fortunately, the HTTP API V2 already has a key/field for advertising IDs. In this example of the HTTP API V2 request, I am setting the ADID to AEBE52E7-03EE-455A-B3C4-E57283966239 for the unique user with device id equal to 5f9fbb3b-8b65-5a35-8ec1-699f5cfb2998. curl -H 'Content-Type: application/json' -d '{"api_key": "INSERT_API_KEY","events":[{"device_id":"5f9fbb3b-8b65-5a35-8ec1-699f5cfb2998", "event_type":"adid_event", "event_properties": {},"user_properties": {},"adid": "AEBE52E7-03EE-455A-B3C4-E57283966239","ip":"127.0.0.1"}]}' https://api2.amplitude.com/2/httpapi It’s important to note the following: This HTTP API V2 method is intended to tag advertising ID information to users so that the attribution data can be mapped to the corr

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eddie.gaona
Team Member
3 years ago
Saish Redkar
Expert
Saish RedkarExpert
asked in  Building and Sharing Your Analysis
Custom bucket interval controls in Sessions Length Distribution chart

Hello everyone,I noticed that there were some new session metrics available under the User Sessions chart ie. Total Session Counts, Total Time Spent and Average Time Spent per User.Along with this, we can now also customize the shape of the distribution by setting the minimum and maximum session lengths for the Sessions Length Distribution metric.  Using this, is it possible to set custom bucket intervals to specific granularity in the chart by dividing the time bucket as per our need?Previously, the chart showed intervals ranging from secs to mins to hrs in the same chart and was kinda the preferred way for most of our Amplitude users to consume this data.My specific use case is to have all sessions under 1 hr to be shown in intervals of 10 mins and anything above 1 hr in intervals of 1 hr.   I can do this using 2 separate charts, but wanted to know if it can be shown in the same chart. Thanks! 

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Saish Redkar
Expert
3 years ago
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gadejiNew Member
asked in Data Instrumentation
How data types are determined by Amplitude

Hello,I would like to understand a bit better how data types are determined for event properties & user properties.What if I send a property as string the first time, and then send all the following thousand events with the same property as number.Will the data type change to number or will it stay as string? Thanks.

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Saish Redkar
Expert
3 years ago

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