You can search for events and event values from the Search Builder tab. You can also search for dimensions and dimension values that are associated with specific events.
- Events are organized into groups called event labels. In the Search Builder tab, event labels are the folder nodes. They are listed below the search groups that are defined in the search template.
- You cannot search for events that are not configured to be Searchable & Reportable.
- In active sessions, you cannot search for sessions that are set to fire on the
End of Session
orLast Hit
trigger.
When you select the report group entity in the Search Builder, you are choosing to search that fact for the specified event value. You cannot search for report groups as an entity.
For each event that is specified in the Search Builder tab, you can click to expand the event tag to display the underlying fact attributes, which include the event values and associated dimensions and dimension values. To add any of these items to the search, double-click it, which can also toggle display of any underlying terms.
In the table below, you can review the event-related items in the Search Builder tab and the type of search that can be completed. An example query for dtSearch is also listed.
Object | Search Type | dtSearch Query | Notes |
---|---|---|---|
event label | no | n/a | Organizing element for display only |
event | existence |
TLFID contains 271
|
Search for displayed event by internal event ID (271 ) |
event value | existence and value |
hit//TLFID_272/TLFactValue contains example.com
|
Searches facts that are recorded in the request for event existence (if blank) or for specific values (if populated) |
dimension value (hashed) | value |
hit//TLFID_272/TLDimHash1 contains 35fcc022f293e102 ok6af20501de189d88
|
Searches facts that are recorded in the request for specific hashed values |