Overview

With Goal Based Dimensions, events fire when they occur, yet the data is not published until the end of the session so that all required data to properly evaluate the event is tabulated. Events that are configured to be evaluated at the end of the session are not published until that time. At the end of the session, the last known value for each dimension is back-populated to the event occurrences earlier in the session.

For example, the event that identifies when a user goes to the shopping cart occurs on hit 6, yet there are references to dimensional data populated by this event earlier in the session, on hits 2 and 4.

You can configure the event to properly capture the event on hit 6 and then to apply the dimensional values backward in the session.

For example, the Went to Cart event fires on hit 6 and the Shopping Cart report group that fires on hits 2 and 4 include a YES value for the Went to Cart dimension. The populating event is not yet fired at the time of the recording of the report group on the earlier hits.

Note: Since the data is not populated until the end of the session, Goal Based Dimensions and events are not searchable and reportable until after the end of the session, if they are configured to be searchable and reportable in the event definition.