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mpAVONew Member
asked in Data Instrumentation

User filter not working as expected

I am currently trying to filter out any test data or internal user data from our dashboards, but they continue to appear in our charts no matter how explicitly I try to filter them out. In this case, I am simply trying to understand our daily active users minus the users with a UserID containing part of the 3 strings listed in the segmentation window.  However, despite this I continue to see users with these IDs included in our chart. 

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Saish Redkar
Expert
1 year ago
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sanchitConversationalist
asked in Data Instrumentation

Can we add new event properties in already implemented event?

Since my app is in recently launched, I am required to make changes in the app as per user requirement regularly, in the process occasionally I need to add new event property and delete the old ones since they are no longer there in already implemented event. What is the best way to do it and is this even possible?  

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Conversationalist
1 year ago
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liukaichiHelpful Hero
asked in  Building and Sharing Your Analysis

How Retention is Calculated in Retention Graphs

I’m trying to understand the Weekly retention of people in a certain cohort. However, I’m getting these numbers that raise over the given weeks. I know one of them is due to lack of data in those time periods, but most of them have been implemented for quite a while now, so this increase doesn’t seem expected. I am suspecting it has to do with the way the Cohort is setup. These are If User performs X more than 1 time within 30 days kind of cohorts. This led me to wonder, how do Cohorts of this nature work with a chart window that is bigger than the defining cohort.Example: Cohort where user performs event X at least once in 30 days. But I’m charting weekly retention over 12 weeks. Does the retention track what the dynamic cohort population was from week 1, and re-calculate it for each week? Or does it take one single measurement of what the cohort users are, and measure retention based off of the very first week’s users?Hope this question makes sense. Thanks in advance.-Justin

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Denis Holmes
Team Member
1 year ago
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vjbhaktaConversationalist
asked in  Building and Sharing Your Analysis

Is array of objects possible in UserProperties? Does Amplitude charts allow insights on the key inside array objects ?

I have a device on which I connect 3 USB Cameras named : Front, Left, Right.There will be definately be charts based on the event_type and event_properties.But, here I am interested in charts that I can create from User Properties.The User(or device) Properties in any event, may have attached usb array object as below :{ "device_id": "C8F9E604-F01A-4BD9-95C6-8E5357DF265D", "event_type": "Camera started", "event_properties": { "camera_name": "Left" }, "os_name": "Android", "os_version": "4.2.2", "device_brand": "Verizon", "device_manufacturer": "Apple", "device_model": "iPhone 9,1", "firmware_version": "02.04.10.22", "usbPeripherals": [ { "cameraCapable": true, "microphoneCapable": true, "speakerCapable": false, "name": "Left", "model": "C635", "vendor": "Logitech" }, { "cameraCapable": true, "microphoneCapable": false, "speakerCapable": false, "name": "Front", "model": "DS-0021", "vendor": "Hikvision"

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belinda.chiu
Community Manager
1 year ago
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LachyNew Member
asked in Data Instrumentation

Can you force all events and properties to lowercase?

Does Amplitude have a setting to force the casing of all events and their properties to a preferred casing standard (i.e. lowercase)?This would be per Amplitude’s own Taxonomy recommendation.I recall being told that this is possible, but looking through documentation, I can’t find any reference to it.

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1 year ago
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razf6New Member
asked in  Building and Sharing Your Analysis

Uniques for multiple events

I want to measure the number of unique users per month who performed EITHER of several events. Do I just use UNIQUES(A)+UNIQUES(B)+UNIQUES(C)or would that still hold duplicate users (counts per event and just adds, or deduplicate as well)?

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1 year ago
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christopherwNew Member
asked in Data Instrumentation

Can Amplitude still stitch together session IDs in an iOS14 world?

Background: I’ve used Amplitude in a previous company before and managed to create an attribution model that included first click + last click data on a user level.Goal: I’m at a new company and would like to be able to stitch first click + last click UTM data before a user creates an account and link that data to the account creation User ID. Trouble is that iOS 14 might mess things up.Question: How does Amplitude stitch together different sessions from the same anonymous user and can that first click UTM data be linked to an account creation? Or has there been some lost functionality since the introduction of iOS 14?Thank you, I had a search of your help FAQs and other questions posed here before but couldn’t find a similar question. 

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Team Member
1 year ago
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Carolin KobeltNovice
asked in Data Instrumentation

App Set ID instead of Ad ID...implications for existing data?

I’m currently looking at the Android 12/Google Ad ID topic and it is my understanding, that the Amplitude documentation suggests to use the App Set ID to identify a specific device instead of the advertising ID. Or in more technical terms client.useAppSetIdForDeviceId(); instead of client.useAdvertisingIdForDeviceId();  Before implementing this change I would like to understand the implications for our existing data:If a device so far was identified via Advertising ID will switching to the App Set ID create a new Amplitude ID or will Amplitude be able to stitch new data to old data?For new users it is not a problem but for existing users I would like to make sure, that our identification and therefore calculation of unique users remains unaffected. 

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Denis Holmes
Team Member
1 year ago
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SethuramanNew Member
asked in  Building and Sharing Your Analysis

I want the number of unique events where event property is also unique. How do i find that?

My use case is this. I need to measure unique logins to my system. User A has user id 100 and logins in via mobile in the morning and logins in via laptop in the evening. So there are 2 unique events now. However for both these unique events the event property (user id) is 100 only. So now I want to know events for unique event property. For example: - If user A with user id 100 logins in mobile and laptop and User B with user id 102 logins in with mobile and laptop - there are 4 unique login events.However from my POV there are only 2 unique users only. Please explain to me, how to build a chart for this. Thank you

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MikkoKarvonen
Peer Moderator
1 year ago
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abhyudayaConversationalist
asked in Data Instrumentation

How do I reset the API Key for a project?

I need to reset the API Key for a project, can I revoke the existing one and get a fresh key?

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Conversationalist
1 year ago
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carissa.mokWell-Versed
asked in Data Instrumentation

Adding user properties creates separate event

Hi! I was trying to add user properties to an event and I tried doing the following: var userProperties = { city: "San Francisco"};// @ts-ignorevar amp = amplitude.getInstance();amp.logEvent(eventName);amp.setUserProperties(userProperties);However, this event tracked twice: as a “Continue button clicked” event without user properties and also as a $identify event with user properties. Is there a specific way I should be configuring the user properties to add them to the specific event, rather than tracking as a separate $identify event? Thanks in advance!

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belinda.chiu
Community Manager
1 year ago
lars
larsNew Member
asked in  Building and Sharing Your Analysis

Is it possible to calculate how long certain things take?

Hey, we’re building an app to approve invoices. So each invoice is going through somewhat a funnel. From requesting approval, through multiple approval steps all the way to export. We have time stamps for each event (request_approval, approve, export etc.).Is it possible with Amplitude to calculate the cycle time of a document?And then also determine why certain documents take longer than others?

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belinda.chiu
Community Manager
1 year ago
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hl_wangNew Member
asked in Data Instrumentation

Pageview for main feeds?

Hi! I have a page which contains a main feed, think of LinkedIn or Facebook.So there are many posts on the feed that the user can scroll down and view.My question is, is there anyway to track which posts the users scrolls past? For example some post only have a few lines of text or even just an image, so it is not neccesary to tap into the post to view it.But currently we have no way to track the views of the posts that users have just scrolled past.Is this even possible to track?Hope this makes sense.Cheers,Michael 

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MikkoKarvonen
Peer Moderator
1 year ago
lars
larsNew Member
asked in  Building and Sharing Your Analysis

How to create a user segment with multiple WHERE clauses with an OR operator

Hey, I’d like to create a segment of users with multiple WHERE clauses that are connected with an OR operator. This is what I’m looking forAdministratorsWHERE ADMIN = trueORWHERE APPROVER = true But apparently only AND is possible? I’m not sure how I can create a segment with both user properties.

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Saish Redkar
Expert
1 year ago
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DarigaNew Member
asked in  Building and Sharing Your Analysis

Is it possible to download a limited amount of project data from Api?

Good day!Is it possible to download a limited amount of project data from Api?Our case: We want to give access to uploading data via API only those that are on three dashboards (MAU, DAU, Retention, for example) , but prohibit uploading and viewing our other data

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Saish Redkar
Expert
1 year ago
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xiaomeng.zhangWell-Versed
asked in Data Instrumentation

The session_id=-1 when we use segment send data to amplitude

Our system is Android mobile, when we use segment send data to amplitude, we found the session_id=-1, and we don not konw why? { "$insert_id": "ad359f15-3f6c-44fe-8a7d-51abe6d1fa5d", "$row_source": "realtime", "$schema": 12, "_time": 1634624174745, "adid": null, "amplitude_attribution_ids": [ "d63abe7cdc0f0b2aa76ae262402f7e03" ], "amplitude_event_type": null, "amplitude_id": 251319235937, "app": 346475, "city": "Beijing", "client_event_time": "2021-10-19T06:16:14.745", "client_upload_time": "2021-10-19T06:16:27.923", "country": "China", "data": { }, "device_brand": null, "device_carrier": "中国联通", "device_family": "Redmi Phone", "device_id": "c6adc3fd07f5e282", "device_manufacturer": "Xiaomi", "device_model": "M2006J10C", "device_type": "Redmi K30 Ultra", "display_name": "Page Viewed", "dma": null, "event_id": 118285483, "event_properties": { "app_country": "ID", "page_path": "/account" }, "event_time": "2021-10-19T06:16:14.745", "event_type": "Pag

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Saish Redkar
Expert
1 year ago
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Technologic82New Member
asked in Data Instrumentation

Count seems incorrect for the first event in the Funnel

I exported the CSV for a funnel and noticed the ‘Total’ count for the first event is different to the sum of the counts for each date. This only seems to be the case for the first event in the funnel, the total for subsequent events equal the sum across all dates. I double checked this by creating a Event Segmentation for the same event and date range. The total (uniques) matches the sum from the funnel CSV, but is different to the ‘Total’ in the CSV / funnel chart. Anyone know what’s going on here?

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1 year ago
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akrauseNew Member
asked in  Building and Sharing Your Analysis

Divide by Dynamic User Cohort within Custom Formula

Hi,I am attempting to find the percentage of users in a specific cohort that performed a few events. So far, I am able to find this percentage by using the Formula feature within the event segmentation chart. I have 42,087 users within this dynamic cohort. To find the percentage, I can take the uniques from each event and divide by the number of users in my cohort. Is there a way to shortcut this so that I can just divide by number of users within the cohort itself? If the cohort grows in size, I would like to have this chart adapt without having to retype the number of users in the cohort for the formula each time. Formula I am using Instead, could the formula do something like UNIQUES(A) / ”Current Cohort Population” ? Here is my chart for reference: https://analytics.amplitude.com/viasat/chart/6bo9mqb?source=redirect%3A+chart+savedLet me know if you can help out!-Anna

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Saish Redkar
Expert
1 year ago
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zeroseshNew Member
asked in  Building and Sharing Your Analysis

Most Popular Usage Times

I’d like to create a chart where I can group session start times into arbitrary buckets like hour of day, day of week, month of year, etc. Something to monitor which times of day/week are most popular. I can’t see an obvious way of doing this. Is it possible?

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Saish Redkar
Expert
1 year ago
Bill
Experienced
BillExperienced
asked in Data Instrumentation

How could I get 1 value out of 1 user's complete event logs for the past 30 days?

Hi,I am trying to grab 1 value out of all the events generated by one user in the past 30 days, is there a way to achieve this?For example, I have a custom event for users to enter the weight… now i want to pull the last 30 days of one user’s weight value.  (like export date + weight for 30 days in csv format)Bill

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eddie.gaona
Team Member
1 year ago
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Thomas PlantNew Member
asked in Data Instrumentation

SSO Exceptions

Hi all, I’m just about to activate SSO on our Organisation for integration with OneLogin. Is it possible to exempt any accounts for breakglass purposes? I can’t see a way to do it.I am also assuming that all levels of access, including Admin, are activate for SSO as the docs don’t specify? Thanks,Tom

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belinda.chiu
Community Manager
1 year ago
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michellelimNew Member
asked in Data Instrumentation

Can I create a histogram of total time spent per user?

I really like that I can see the Average Time Spent per User on my User Sessions chart. However, I’d also like to see the distribution and Median of Time Spent per User.The chart, as far as I know, only allows me to see distribution of a session length. But that’s not what I want. It’s more relevant to me to see the distribution of total time spent per user.Thank you!

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1 year ago
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sahanlakNovice
asked in  Building and Sharing Your Analysis

Retention based on hour of the day

Hello, I am trying to understand if a specific event’s engagement can have an impact based on hour of the day or a specific day (Mon - Sun). Is it possible to visualize this in retention chart?

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Novice
1 year ago
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jillCaseyNew Member
asked in  Building and Sharing Your Analysis

Reporting users meeting cohort definition for the first time within a day/week/month

I have a working definition of Activated users and have several charts showing our DAU/WAU/MAU or the CUMSUM of this cohort of users. I’d like to build a chart that specifically shows new activated users. I can do this manually by clicking on the cumsum(activated_users) for week A and create a cohort of weekA_ActivateUsers, then repeat for Week B, then create a new chart with a segment where the users are in A but not in B.But that is tedious and we want to set up a sync of only newly activated users to send an email out to. A sync won’t be reliable if I have to do this manually. Does anyone have an automated way to solve this? 

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1 year ago
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edparryNew Member
asked in Data Instrumentation

Can you query against nested event properties?

With data coming into Amplitude from Segment, I have an event that tracks orders that looks like the below example.analytics.track('user@email.com', 'Order Completed', { 'email': 'user@email.com', 'order_id': '12345', 'platform': 'Website', 'products': [ { 'category': 'Soap', 'price': 4.99, 'sku': 'SP-SML' } ], 'sales_channel': 'Website', 'shipping': 0.0, 'total': 4.99})Is it possible to create a chart that can then track the different Category values here? Bearing in mind it is possible for one of these events to have multiple products in it.

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belinda.chiu
Community Manager
1 year ago

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