Reference documentation and code samples for the Google Analytics Data V1beta API class Google::Analytics::Data::V1beta::Dimension.
Dimensions are attributes of your data. For example, the dimension city
indicates the city from which an event originates. Dimension values in report
responses are strings; for example, city could be "Paris" or "New York".
Requests are allowed up to 9 dimensions.
(::String) — The name of the dimension. See the API
Dimensions
for the list of dimension names.
If dimensionExpression is specified, name can be any string that you
would like within the allowed character set. For example if a
dimensionExpression concatenates country and city, you could call
that dimension countryAndCity. Dimension names that you choose must match
the regular expression ^[a-zA-Z0-9_]$.
Dimensions are referenced by name in dimensionFilter, orderBys,
dimensionExpression, and pivots.
#name=
defname=(value)->::String
Parameter
value (::String) — The name of the dimension. See the API
Dimensions
for the list of dimension names.
If dimensionExpression is specified, name can be any string that you
would like within the allowed character set. For example if a
dimensionExpression concatenates country and city, you could call
that dimension countryAndCity. Dimension names that you choose must match
the regular expression ^[a-zA-Z0-9_]$.
Dimensions are referenced by name in dimensionFilter, orderBys,
dimensionExpression, and pivots.
Returns
(::String) — The name of the dimension. See the API
Dimensions
for the list of dimension names.
If dimensionExpression is specified, name can be any string that you
would like within the allowed character set. For example if a
dimensionExpression concatenates country and city, you could call
that dimension countryAndCity. Dimension names that you choose must match
the regular expression ^[a-zA-Z0-9_]$.
Dimensions are referenced by name in dimensionFilter, orderBys,
dimensionExpression, and pivots.
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