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antti-nylund
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April 16, 2020
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Building a segment - Within x hits operator

  • April 16, 2020
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Hi,

 

I a creating a segment and having hard time to overcome flawed implementation with some quick n dirty:

 

Hit 1 - A

Hit 2 - A

Hit 3 - A

Hit 4 - B

If I set in the Segment builder that State=A THEN Within 1 hits State=B with does Adobe check

1) Hit 1 and Hit 2 = false or

2) does it compare Hit 3 and Hit 4 which would mean that this Visit and Visitor would be included in the segment?

 

There is unknown and varying amount of hits between state A and B and no way to control how many hits user sends before moving from A to B but just using Visit scope might lead to false positives.

 

Thanks for your input!

 

 

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Best answer by Andrew_Wathen_

The segment as described will return any visits that contain "A then B within one page view" at any point within the journey.  So the journey described would be included as it matches this criteria.

 

I also wondered whether turning off "count repeat instances" under the menu Project > Project Info & Settings might be useful to you depending on what you are doing as hit 2 and hit 3 would be filtered out in this case.

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Andrew_Wathen_
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Andrew_Wathen_Community AdvisorAccepted solution
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April 16, 2020

The segment as described will return any visits that contain "A then B within one page view" at any point within the journey.  So the journey described would be included as it matches this criteria.

 

I also wondered whether turning off "count repeat instances" under the menu Project > Project Info & Settings might be useful to you depending on what you are doing as hit 2 and hit 3 would be filtered out in this case.

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    antti-nylundAuthor
    Level 2
    April 22, 2020
    Thanks! 'count repeat instances', if I understood correctly, would not apply to this as I have a page view event followed by x amount of page events like scroll and click before next page view event. So I have different amount of matches if I set within 3 hits or within 4 hits. If I set option within visit then user might be included since they might reach step B via other sequence. I think I got tangled up, I may need some pen&paper to get this sorted in my head 🙂
    Hyder_Ziaee
    Adobe Employee
    Hyder_ZiaeeAdobe Employee
    Adobe Employee
    April 16, 2020

    Look at it this way - there is a condition which when true has an action. It has no action when the condition is false.

     

    Hit 1 - A ---- Hit 2 - A ----> No Action

    Hit 2 - A ---- Hit 3 - A ----> No Action

    Hit 3 - A ---- Hit 4 - B ----> Include Visit (assuming container level is set to Visit)

     

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    antti-nylundAuthor
    Level 2
    April 22, 2020
    @hyder_ziaee Thanks, that makes sense. But if I want to find a hit A(Hit 3) that was followed by hit B (Hit 4), would this then include all hits that are similar to Hit 3?
    Hyder_Ziaee
    Adobe Employee
    Hyder_ZiaeeAdobe Employee
    Adobe Employee
    April 29, 2020
    @antti-nylund, the answer would depend on the container. if the container is Visit, then all the hits within a visit where the condition was satisfied will be included
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