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Inconsistent custom dimension results being returned #828

Closed GoogleCodeExporter closed 8 years ago

GoogleCodeExporter commented 8 years ago 
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Name of affected component: Core Reporting API

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Issue summary:
Noticed that some reporting results were returning incorrect or no values for 
older date ranges when querying against a custom dimension. Issue appears to be 
occurring when selecting dates before 9/29/2015

Steps to reproduce issue:
1. Using the query explorer enter in the date range of 9/1/2015 to 9/29/2015, 
the users metric along with the custom dimension. Here is the query report link:

https://ga-dev-tools.appspot.com/query-explorer/?start-date=2015-09-01&end-date=
2015-09-29&metrics=ga%3Ausers&dimensions=ga%3Adimension6&segment=sessions%3A%3Ac
ondition%3A%3Aga%3Adimension1%3D%3Dprivate%2Cga%3AcustomVarName5%3D%40maform%2Cg
a%3AcustomVarName5%3D%40Profiling%20AB%20Test%3Bga%3Adimension6%3D~%5E%5Cd%7B3%7
D.*&max-results=10

2. Change the date range to after 9/30 to see results

Expected output:
We are expecting to see some custom dimension results returned for that range 
and was returning results several weeks ago.

Actual results:
No results are returned.

Original issue reported on code.google.com by mich...@mashbox.com on 19 Dec 2015 at 2:25

GoogleCodeExporter commented 8 years ago 
Could this have been a data collection issue?
Does the Web Interface show the same results?
Is sampling involved?
Have you made use of Data Import to manipulate the custom dimensions?
Have changed the scope of Custom Dimensions?
In other words there are a large number of factors that could contribute to the 
data in your Analytics account being different from what you expected. The 
query explorer, the API and the Web interface draw upon the same set of 
information which has been recorded through your collection mechanism and 
processed based upon your account settings.

https://developers.google.com/analytics/devguides/reporting/core/v3/help
The best place to ask questions about using and developing with Google 
Analytics APIs, libraries, and SDKs is on Stack Overflow. Make sure and use one 
of the following tags:

google-analytics — for general questions about Google Analytics.
google-analytics-api — for questions specific to one of the Google Analytics 
APIs.

Original comment by mcoh...@google.com on 24 Dec 2015 at 5:26