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Great! I'll try it today.

Thank you for the article 🙂

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Hey @tammaroivan

Custom dimensions were on my list of this to do... 😃

I went ahead and added them: https://github.com/DavidWells/analytics/blob/master/packages/analytics-plugin-google-analytics/src/browser.js#L11

I need to clean up the docs & then I can release a new version for ya.

In the newer version, once released, you can define customDimensions option and map to your google analytics custom dimensions.

Here is an example:

import Analytics from 'analytics'
import googleAnalytics from '@analytics/google-analytics'

/* initialize analytics and load plugins */
const analytics = Analytics({
  app: 'awesome-app',
  plugins: [
    googleAnalytics({
      trackingId: 'UA-1223141231',
      // Map your dimensions here
      customDimensions: {
        baz: 'dimension1',
        foo: 'dimension2',
        flam: 'dimension3',
      },
    }),
  ]
})

// Tracking example with mappings
analytics.track('buttonClicked', {
   baz: 'hello',
   foo: 'cool'
})
/* This tracking call payload maps to:
{
  dimension1: 'hello', ===> baz is mapped to dimension1
  dimension2: 'cool'   ===> foo is mapped to dimension1
}

Under the hood this sets the custom dimensions in GA:

ga('set', {  dimension1: 'hello', dimension2: 'cool' }).     */

// Mapping works with identify too
analytics.identify('user123', {
   flam: 'wow'
})
/* This identify call payload maps to:
{
  dimension3: 'wow', ===> flam is mapped to dimension3
}
a.k.a ga('set', {  dimension3: 'wow' }). 
*/

Out of curiosity, what are you tracking with custom dimensions? Also, are you using custom metrics at all? Thanks!

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Thank you so much for that! Waiting for that release.

I'm dealing with a specific problem. I need reports associated to the user id, I'm identifying the user with analytics.identify but Google Analytics really doesn't allow you to do so much else than "User Explorer" (or I couldn't find it).

One basic example: I'm saving a specific event and I would like to know which user does this event more times. I couldn't find how to do this with the user id feature but yes with a custom dimension.

I'm not using custom metrics for now, but I'm just starting this project in my company and it will get bigger in the near future.

What do you think? Custom dimension is a good approach for this? Or can I do this with the user id feature?

Thanks!

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Alrighty! @analytics/[email protected] is published with custom dimension support.

Thanks again for reaching out & using the package! 😃

As for which custom dimensions to track, I've always liked Simo's https://www.simoahava.com/analytics/13-useful-custom-dimensions-for-google-analytics/ list.

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am i doing something wrong?

I'm not able to load the values sent to customDimensions into Google Analytics

import googleAnalytics from '@analytics/google-analytics'
import Analytics from 'analytics'

const analytics = Analytics({
  app: 'app',
  version: 100,
  plugins: [
    googleAnalytics({
      trackingId: process.env.GA_TRACKING_ID,
      customDimensions: {
        feature: 'dimension1',
        subfeature: 'dimension2',
        version: 'dimension3',
        chapter: 'dimension4',
        verse: 'dimension5',
        ip: 'dimension6',
        isHowToUse: 'dimension7'
      }
    })
  ]
})

await analytics.track('request', {
   feature: 'verses',
   subfeature: 'search'
})

Using the default properties (action, category and label) it worked.

In Google Analytics:

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Hey @marciovsena

That looks correct as per the docs https://getanalytics.io/plugins/google-analytics/#using-ga-custom-dimensions

Do you have a live project/link I can checkout?

setCustomDimensions should be getting called here

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@DavidWells Yes, I am apparently doing as described in the documentation.

Link of the PR with the implementation:

• omarciovsena/abibliadigital#121
  • https://github.com/marciovsena/bibleapi/pull/121/files#diff-fc66d847b10744ac04e9854460da2f18

Application Staging Link:

• https://bibleapi-stg.herokuapp.com

I was unable to add your hello@davi... email to the google analytics staging account.

How to test:

• Visit https://bibleapi-stg.herokuapp.com/en
• Go to the How To Use section
• Search for:
  • verses/nvi/sl/21
  • verses/nvi/sl/22
  • verses/nvi/sl/23
  • versions/nvi/sl/24

Thank you

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To anyone else that was having this issue, i had to manually pull the release. Perhaps a release for this wasn't published.

Doing a fresh npm install was pulling 0.2.2

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