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Build a segment to filter by hit *then* visitor

  • June 15, 2021
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Segments filter by the outer container, then the inner container. According to the documentation it's not possible to have a Visitor container within a Hit container, but I wanted to check if maybe there was an alternate method for that. 

 

Basically I want to first filter a data set for only specific hits, then I want to filter only those hits for a visitor level criteria. Possible/not possible?

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Best answer by hjoshi

The container works as a wrapper for any segment. to filter a data set for only specific hits, you could use hit based segment.

About segments and containers:

https://experienceleague.adobe.com/docs/analytics/components/segmentation/seg-overview.html?lang=en

https://experienceleague.adobe.com/docs/analytics/components/segmentation/segmentation-workflow/seg-build.html?lang=en

 

Thnaks,

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Alexis_Cazes_
Alexis_Cazes_
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June 16, 2021

I think you might want to first create a Visitor container that match you first hit criteria, then another container to exclude Visitors or visits or hits that do not match further criteria.

 

 

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    aaabaAuthor
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    July 21, 2021
    I considered that, but it's not practical since the required exclude list would be thousands of values.
    yuhuisg
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    yuhuisgCommunity Advisor
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    June 17, 2021

    Why can't you just use a single Hit-level container?

    It stands to reason that since you're ultimately getting a segment of Hits, because that's your outer container, then anything within that container should be filtered/segmented based on Hits too.

    Or maybe I'm not understanding your problem correctly.

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      aaabaAuthor
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      June 17, 2021
      Because I want to use this with the Products variable per visitor. For example, I want to segment by visitors who have spent $x on a specific product over a period of time. When I make the inner container a Visitor that appears to take precedence over the outer Hit container since it's the broadest scope.
      jantzen_b
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      jantzen_bAdobe Employee
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      July 20, 2021
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      hjoshiAccepted solution
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      July 23, 2021

      The container works as a wrapper for any segment. to filter a data set for only specific hits, you could use hit based segment.

      About segments and containers:

      https://experienceleague.adobe.com/docs/analytics/components/segmentation/seg-overview.html?lang=en

      https://experienceleague.adobe.com/docs/analytics/components/segmentation/segmentation-workflow/seg-build.html?lang=en

       

      Thnaks,

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        aaabaAuthor
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        July 23, 2021
        Thanks, but I don't want to just limit to hits. I want to filter for only specific hits, and then filter those results with a visitor scope. For example, I want to filter hits to only those with a purchase of X product, then filter those hits to visitors who have spent Y amount on that product. I think this goes back to the need for a Product scoped segment that I asked about in another post.
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