Recommended workflow for creating dimension populated by logged values
About this task
If you are creating a whitelist, blacklist, or group list dimension that is populated by source values from logs, the following workflow is recommended for creating the dimension.
Procedure
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Create the dimension. See Creating or editing a dimension.
- For the Values to Record, select the type of data you want to record. See Dimension values to record.
- Turn on logging.
- Do not specify your list yet.
- Specify other properties as you see fit.
- Click Save Draft.
- Before dimension values can be logged, you must add the dimension to a report group. See Creating or editing a report group.
- Click Save Changes.
- Allow sufficient time for the database log to be populated by a representative sample of values that are detected in the capture stream. Typically, 24 hours is a sufficient waiting period.
- Review the dimension logs to verify that all values you want to detect were captured. See Adding values from logs.
- Create the list or lists from the logged values.
- After you specified the list for the dimension, you may want to export the list to a file for recordkeeping.
- Click Save Draft.
- Click Save Changes.