Question

How to define a session filter with events happening within a certain time?

Forum|Forum|11 months ago
February 10, 2025
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Hey, everyone

I'm trying to define a filter to answer me how many sessions I've had with two conditional events (Event 1 then within X days Event 2) - but it seems like the filter is only interpreting the session time, so the "Within X Days" clause is actually invalid. How could I properly measure what I want (basically, "Include Sessions where Event 1 happened, then, within X days, Event 2 happened")

Thanks a lot!

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Jennifer_Dungan

Community Advisor and Adobe Champion

The problem in your segment is that you are looking at the "Within 7 Days" inside the same session... Which isn't the case, a session is not going to extend for days.

You will need to stack containers within the segment to accomodate that within logic at a Visitor or Person level.

So, if you want only the sessions with "Event 1" but it must be constrained by "Event 2 within 7 days"

Then you will probably need something like:

SESSION [

Event Category (Dataset) equals Event 1

AND

VISITOR [

Event Category (Dataset) equals Event 1

THEN within 7 days

Event Category (Dataset) equals Event 2

]

C

Caio_deArrudaAuthor

Hey, Jennifer! Thanks a lot for the answer

However, the filter doesn't seem to work, as I want to count the people/sessions that correspond to that rule

So, basically, all I want is a filter that allows me to know how many people/sessions "E1 THEN (within 7d) E2", but at the time of event, say:
If I had 200 sessions with occurrences of "E1 THEN (within 7d) E2" made by 100 people in January, then the outcome would be 200 (if counting Sessions) and 100 (if counting People), in January

The way above seems to be counting retroactively and duplicated the people that correspond to the rule, so, for example, when filtering the whole year, I have 100k people total and 80k January, 82k February, 79k March, etc. - where it should not happen, for it was supposed to be related to the moment of the action

Jennifer_Dungan

Community Advisor and Adobe Champion

The "within 7 days" should be exactly as you described... you are pulling back sessions with E1, where the visitor did E1 then E2 within a 7 day time frame.

Now, I don't have CJA, but the principal should be the same as in AA.

The segment itself is looking at a Session scope (which should be the equivalent to VISIT in AA). You are limited to the sessions with the "E1" event... and you have a visitor constraint that makes sure that only the sessions that are followed within 7 days by E2 are included. It should not include the sessions with E2, and it should not include all sessions from that visitor...

But CJA may have some calculation issues with sessions that I am not aware of that are causing issues with the results? I know that while sessions and visits are essentially the same, I believe that the way CJA determines a session is different... and maybe that is causing problems?

Sukrity_Wadhwa

Community Manager

Hi @caio_dearruda,

Were you able to resolve this query with the given solution or was this something you were able to figure out on your own or do you still need help here? Do let us know.

Thanks!

Sukrity Wadhwa

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Caio_deArrudaAuthor

Hello, Sukrity

Thanks for the reply!

Unfortunately, this is an issue that was not solved yet

Sukrity_Wadhwa

Community Manager

Thanks for the update! I'll escalate this to our SMEs and try to get you more support.

Sukrity Wadhwa

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