4. Upload whitelist

About this task

After you edited the whitelist, you can upload the file as the whitelist for your dimension.

Procedure

  1. Edit the URL (Normalized) dimension. See 1. Initial configuration for URL (Normalized).
  2. In the Edit Dimension dialog, click the Advanced Options caret.
  3. Click Edit Whitelist....
  4. In the Edit Whitelist dialog, click Import File.... Select the file saved you are your whitelist directory.
  5. The new values are added to the whitelist.
  6. If you want to track any values as Top Movers, click the Track Top Movers check box next to the value.
    • To track all displayed values, click Track All.
  7. To save your whitelist, click Done.
    Note: Although you created your whitelist for the dimension, you may want to keep logging enabled for some time, as updates may be required. See Maintenance.
  8. To save changes to the dimension, click Save Draft.
  9. To apply the whitelist to the dimension, save changes to the server. Click Save Changes.
  10. All subsequent values that are detected for the URL (Normalized) are processed based on the whitelist. Only URL values that are on the whitelist are permitted, if the values to record setting is configured as Whitelist Only.
  11. If you are satisfied with the values on your dimension whitelist, disable logging.
    Note: Logging is automatically disabled after a period. To update your dimension whitelist, you must re-enable logging to capture observed values, if the count of [others] begins to climb.