Are custom dimensions supported?

[reece]

UA (and perhaps GA) provides "Custom Dimensions". Are these possible to use with pyga?

https://developers.google.com/analytics/devguides/collection/analyticsjs/custom-dims-mets

[kra3]

Hello @reece, this library is written against GA.js, while I have plans to create a version for UA, time is not in favour so far.

That said, pyga has supports for custom variables, events & campaigns from ga.js. Most likely, one of those will work for you.

For example, ga.js variables can be thought of us less capable version of analytics.js dimensions.

py-ga-mob/pyga/entities.py

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	class CustomVariable(object):
	'''
	Represent a Custom Variable
	Properties:
	index -- Is the slot, you have 5 slots
	name -- Name given to custom variable
	value -- Value for the variable
	scope -- Scope can be any one of 1, 2 or 3.
	WATCH OUT: It's a known issue that GA will not decode URL-encoded
	characters in custom variable names and values properly, so spaces
	will show up as "%20" in the interface etc. (applicable to name & value)
	http://www.google.com/support/forum/p/Google%20Analytics/thread?tid=2cdb3ec0be32e078
	'''
	SCOPE_VISITOR = 1
	SCOPE_SESSION = 2
	SCOPE_PAGE = 3
	def __init__(self, index=None, name=None, value=None, scope=3):
	self.index = index
	self.name = name
	self.value = value
	self.scope = CustomVariable.SCOPE_PAGE
	if scope:
	self.scope = scope
	def __setattr__(self, name, value):
	if name == 'scope':
	if value and value not in range(1, 4):
	raise ValueError('Custom Variable scope has to be one of the 1,2 or 3')
	if name == 'index':
	# Custom Variables are limited to five slots officially, but there seems to be a
	# trick to allow for more of them which we could investigate at a later time (see
	# http://analyticsimpact.com/2010/05/24/get-more-than-5-custom-variables-in-google-analytics/
	if value and (value < 0 or value > 5):
	raise ValueError('Custom Variable index has to be between 1 and 5.')
	object.__setattr__(self, name, value)