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aaaba
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Jun 15, 2021 3:25 PM UTC
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Build a segment to filter by hit *then* visitor

Segments filter by the outer container, then the inner container. According to the documentation it's not possible to have a Visitor container within a Hit container, but I wanted to check if maybe there was an alternate method for that. 

 

Basically I want to first filter a data set for only specific hits, then I want to filter only those hits for a visitor level criteria. Possible/not possible?

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hjoshiAccepted solution
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Jul 23, 2021 3:32 AM UTC

The container works as a wrapper for any segment. to filter a data set for only specific hits, you could use hit based segment.

About segments and containers:

https://experienceleague.adobe.com/docs/analytics/components/segmentation/seg-overview.html?lang=en

https://experienceleague.adobe.com/docs/analytics/components/segmentation/segmentation-workflow/seg-build.html?lang=en

 

Thnaks,

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hjoshiAccepted solution
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Jul 23, 2021 3:32 AM UTC

The container works as a wrapper for any segment. to filter a data set for only specific hits, you could use hit based segment.

About segments and containers:

https://experienceleague.adobe.com/docs/analytics/components/segmentation/seg-overview.html?lang=en

https://experienceleague.adobe.com/docs/analytics/components/segmentation/segmentation-workflow/seg-build.html?lang=en

 

Thnaks,

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    aaabaAuthor
    Level 2
    Jul 23, 2021 6:05 PM UTC
    Thanks, but I don't want to just limit to hits. I want to filter for only specific hits, and then filter those results with a visitor scope. For example, I want to filter hits to only those with a purchase of X product, then filter those hits to visitors who have spent Y amount on that product. I think this goes back to the need for a Product scoped segment that I asked about in another post.
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    jantzen_b
    jantzen_b
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    Jul 20, 2021 9:14 PM UTC
    Do any of the answers below answer your initial question? If so, can you select one of them as the correct answer? If none of the answers already provided answer your question, can you provide additional information to better help the community solve your question?
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    yuhuisg
    yuhuisg
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    Jun 17, 2021 5:09 AM UTC

    Why can't you just use a single Hit-level container?

    It stands to reason that since you're ultimately getting a segment of Hits, because that's your outer container, then anything within that container should be filtered/segmented based on Hits too.

    Or maybe I'm not understanding your problem correctly.

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      aaabaAuthor
      Level 2
      Jun 17, 2021 10:26 PM UTC
      Because I want to use this with the Products variable per visitor. For example, I want to segment by visitors who have spent $x on a specific product over a period of time. When I make the inner container a Visitor that appears to take precedence over the outer Hit container since it's the broadest scope.
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      Alexis_Cazes_
      Alexis_Cazes_
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      Jun 16, 2021 5:06 AM UTC

      I think you might want to first create a Visitor container that match you first hit criteria, then another container to exclude Visitors or visits or hits that do not match further criteria.

       

       

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        aaabaAuthor
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        Jul 21, 2021 10:10 PM UTC
        I considered that, but it's not practical since the required exclude list would be thousands of values.
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