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Configuring Unica Discover involves setting up and managing Discover user authorization and configuring Discover server components and services that process captured data.
Unica Discover Event Manager Manual
Manage Events - Dimensions Tab
Through the Discover Event Manager, you can specify data dimensions to track metadata associated with an event. They can be considered the contextual data captured at the moment of event execution.
Creating or Editing a Dimension
Dimension Values to Record
Recording of dimension values

Configuration
Configuring Unica Discover involves setting up and managing Discover user authorization and configuring Discover server components and services that process captured data.
- Unica Discover Configuration Manual
- Unica Discover Event Manager Manual
  - Discover Event Manager
    Unica Discover Event Manager provides the user interface for defining the event objects used to monitor your visitors' sessions. Here you can configure the events, hit attributes, dimensions, session attributes, alerts, and deviations to monitor customer success and struggle with your web application.
  - Getting Started with Discover Events
    Discover events provide the mechanisms for monitoring mission-critical metrics and other indicators of your web application's performance, including software errors, failures to complete transactions, customer struggles, and more. Through Discover events, IT staff, business managers, and executives can keep tabs on critical aspects of the overall customer experience.
  - Manage Events - Events Tab
    Through the Events tab in the Discover Event Manager, you can define, edit, test, and organize events to monitor specific conditions in your visitors' sessions. Discover events provide a flexible and powerful mechanism for tracking at the most granular level what is happening during a visitor's session.
  - Manage Events - Hit Attributes Tab
    When processing hit data, the Discover event engine searches each hit for patterns of text. These patterns can signify an event of interest, such as the occurrence of the word Sorry in the response, or can bracket a text string of interest, such as the value of a form field. These patterns can be explicitly specified or can be defined using the start and end tags for which an event should look when evaluating a condition or setting a value.
  - Manage Events - Dimensions Tab
    Through the Discover Event Manager, you can specify data dimensions to track metadata associated with an event. They can be considered the contextual data captured at the moment of event execution.
  - Manage Events - Session Attributes Tab
    A session attribute is a pre-defined variable that is persistent throughout the life of a Discover session. Session attributes may be used to store various data that may be referenced by events at any point during the session.
  - Manage Events - Alerts Tab
    Through the Discover Event Manager, you can define alerts that are triggered based on Discover events or Anomaly Detections. When threshold values are detected in the related event or Anomaly Detection, an alert is generated and delivered in the appropriate format to the designated recipients.
  - Manage Events - Anomaly Detection Tab
    Through the Discover Event Manager, you can indicate the events, dimensions, and ratios whose variations you wish to track over time. Through the Anomaly Detection tab, you can track the metrics that are major anomaly detections on your site.
  - Manage Events - Import-Export Tabs
    Through the Import and Export tabs, you can export a set of selected event definitions and all supporting data objects from your current system and import a set that has been exported. Import/export controls enable the easy migration of event definitions from a development environment to testing and staging environments.
  - Event Tester
    Integrated into the Discover Event Manager, the Event Tester enables you to test active events and hit attributes, even if they are saved in draft mode, against sessions that you upload to the server. This integrated tool provides a quick method for validating the event objects you define before you deploy them into the live transaction stream.
  - Advanced Mode for Events
    In Advanced Mode, you can review and modify the actual JavaScript™ function that is called to process the event.
  - Event Administration
    The section provides an overview of how events are initially installed and stored in the database and later updated based on changes in the Discover Event Manager.

Recording of dimension values

Note: Dimension values can be recorded as soon as the following occurs:

Dimension definition is saved.
Dimension is associated with a report group.
Report group is assigned to an event.
Event is triggered.

The above has some implications that are best explained by example. Suppose you have an event with the following configuration:

Table 1. Recording of dimension values
Event	Report Group	Included dimensions	Start Date for Recording Dim Values
EventA	ReportGroup1	DimA DimB	Day 1

As soon as the dimensions are associated with the report group and the report group is associated with EventA, values are recorded for DimA and DimB whenever EventA fires.

Suppose that three days later two more report groups are created and associated with EventA, so that the configuration now looks like the following:

Table 2. Recording of dimension values
Event	Report Group	Included dimensions	Start Date for Recording Dim Values
EventA	ReportGroup1	DimA DimB	Day 1
	ReportGroup2	DimC DimD	Day 4
	ReportGroup3	DimC DimE	Day 4

Now, when EventA fires, dimension values are recorded for dimensions A-E, yet there is no data at all for DimC, DimD, and DimE before Day 4. When dimensions from ReportGroup2 and ReportGroup3 are added to reports, there are no values from before Day 4.

Suppose that another three days passes, and then DimC is added to ReportGroup1. The event configuration now looks like the following:

Table 3. Recording of dimension values
Event	Report Group	Included dimensions	Start Date for Recording Dim Values
EventA	ReportGroup1	DimA DimB DimC	Day 1 for DimA and DimB Day 7 for DimC
	ReportGroup2	DimC DimD	Day 4
	ReportGroup3	DimC DimE	Day 4

Since DimC was added to ReportGroup1, there is no data for DimC in recorded instances of EventA + ReportGroup1 combination before Day 7. While the dimension is included as part of the report group, all values displayed for ReportGroup1\DimC before Day 7 are null values.

However, if you use EventA + ReportGroup2 or EventA + ReportGroup3, there are reported values for DimC for Days 4 and onward.

This distinction can be confusing in reports using the configured dimensions.

Note: For purposes of reporting, different data sets are recorded for event + report group\dimension combinations in the Reporting database. So, the data set referenced in a report uses the specific instances of the event + report group\dimension values, instead of all data that is captured since the dimension was created. This space-saving mechanism works as designed.

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