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Exclude vs not match in Visitor and visit container

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November 15, 2018
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Hello

I have been studying adobe analytics.

But I can't figure out the difference between Exclude and not match even though I read some thread and answer like .

"Exclude" and "Does not contain" in segment

Now I have made document to confirm if my understanding is correct or not.

The documents show how total page view will be calculated when implementing each segmentation to visit.

I appreciate it if you let me know if my understanding is correct.

Thank you

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Best answer by Hyder_Ziaee

the action is not to pick hits where the condition matches, but the entire visit (container level)

Since the container is visit, the action taken is to include the visits (and the the entire hits within) when a single hit matches the condition.

Here the condition is 'page does not equal home'. So if a visit contains even a single page that is not home, it will include the visit (all the hits) to which the hit matching the condition belongs (including the pages which have home).

Now once the data set is present, you are simply calculating the page views.

Hyder_Ziaee

Adobe Employee

Your confusion seems around the condition match and the segmented data set.

Example.

Container: Include Visit

Condition: Page does not contain 'home'

Visit #	Hit #	Page Name	Condition	Action
1	1	Home	False	No Action
1	2	Product A	True	Include Visit 1
2	1	Product B	True	Include Visit 2
2	2	Product C	True	Include Visit 2

So the final data set contains the entire Visit1 and Visit2

If you calculate, the total page views in this data set equals 4 (2 from Visit1 + 2 from Visit2)

Similarly the container with include Visitor would include the entire visitor data set when the condition is fulfilled. Thus the total page views is again 4

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kodaio44098824Author

Level 2

Thank you

But Sorry I can not still understand.

Visit #	Hit #	Page Name	Condition	Action
1	1	Home	False	No Action
1	2	Product A	True	Include Visit 1
2	1	Product B	True	Include Visit 2
2	2	Product C	True	Include Visit 2

Example.

Container: Include Visit

Condition: Page does not contain 'home'

In this above case,

Why the total page views in this data set equals 4 (2 from Visit1 + 2 from Visit2) ?,even though visit#1 hit #1 will be no action.

I think the total page views in this data set equals 3 (1 from Visit1 + 2 from Visit2).

And I appreciate it if there is a case of using excluding visit.

Thank you

Urs_Boller

Community Advisor

read this forum thread: Does not exist vs Exists (exclude)

your question/confusion is almost the same except another condition.

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kodaio44098824Author

Level 2

Thank you.

Actually I read that thread. But I can't still grasp all idea of this.

So which part of following visualization is wring after all?

Hyder_Ziaee

Accepted solution

Adobe Employee

the action is not to pick hits where the condition matches, but the entire visit (container level)

Since the container is visit, the action taken is to include the visits (and the the entire hits within) when a single hit matches the condition.

Here the condition is 'page does not equal home'. So if a visit contains even a single page that is not home, it will include the visit (all the hits) to which the hit matching the condition belongs (including the pages which have home).

Now once the data set is present, you are simply calculating the page views.