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feed entries should be "filled in" when you query with ga:month #77

Closed GoogleCodeExporter closed 9 years ago

GoogleCodeExporter commented 9 years ago

Name of API affected:
Analytics Data Export API

Request summary:

When you query with ga:month, the result feed has "filled in" entries for
each month covered by the timeframe. When you add another dimension, such
as ga:visitorType, these "filled in" entries go away. This is inconsistent
and makes it harder for users to consume the results since they will have
to add in the logic to fill in missing month elements. It would be better
to always have at least one entry per month, and use a null for the
visitoryType dimension.

 <dxp:dimension name="ga:visitorType" xsi:null="true" value="" /> 

See this forum thread for discussion:
http://groups.google.com/group/google-analytics-data-export-api/browse_thread/th
read/6b727e15bc3ccc05

Use Cases:
Displaying the results correctly when a date dimension (ga:month, ga:date,
etc) is present.

Original issue reported on code.google.com by back5...@gmail.com on 13 May 2010 at 12:31

GoogleCodeExporter commented 9 years ago
We decided not to fix this because there is no common case as to what to fill 
in for missing dimensions. Instead you will have to wrote your own fill in 
logic. There is some sample code on how to fill in missing dates in the 
articles section of the GA developer site.

Original comment by nickski1...@gmail.com on 26 Jan 2011 at 8:29

GoogleCodeExporter commented 9 years ago
Removing an obsolete label that was used when these issues were in the 
gdata-issues project.

Original comment by jrobbins@google.com on 21 Jul 2011 at 10:05

GoogleCodeExporter commented 9 years ago
Changing the issue type to match the organization desired in this project.

Original comment by jrobbins@google.com on 21 Jul 2011 at 10:06