Classification rules - definitions

Report Suite

The report suites to which the rule set applies.

Variable

You can apply only one variable when creating a classification rule set. If you want to create multiple rule sets for one variable, you must apply each rule set to multiple report suites.

Note: You can use only the variables you have access to in your report suites. Variables will display in the New Rule Set panel only after they have at least one classification defined for that variable.

You can create classifications on a variable in Admin > Report Suites > Traffic > Traffic Classifications (or Conversion > Conversion Classifications). Then select the variable, then click Add Classification.

See Traffic Classifications and Conversion Classifications in Admin Help.

Displays the Available Report Suites page, where you can select one or more available report suites to use for all your rule sets. (This page also displays when you first run the Classification Rule Builder.)

This feature is intended to help reduce report suite load time, in the event that you have hundreds of available report suites.

The report suites you select here are made available at the rule level, when you click Add Suites when creating a rule.

Note: A report suite becomes available only when the report suites have at least one classification defined for the variable in Admin Tools.

(See Variable in Classification Rule Sets for an explanation about this prerequisite.)

When you activate and validate rules, you can specify whether the rules should overwrite existing classifications for affected keys. (Only classified keys that have been previously passed into Adobe Analytics within the time period you specify are affected.)

If you to not specify a lookback window, the rules look back roughly one month (depending on current day of the month.) Existing classifications are never overwritten unless you enable this option.

Dev Center: Partners can create classification rules in the Dev Center. These rules are deployed when the customer activates an integration. In the Dev Center, the Overwrite Since option lets the partner specify whether the customer can determine the overwrite value when activating or editing an integration.

See How Rules Are Processed for more information about rule processing.

Lets you add rules to the rule set.

Note: If a value is matched twice or more in a set of rules, the system uses the last rule to classify the value.

Specifies the action to take when the Matching Condition occurs.

For example, you set a Campaign Name to $2, which identifies position 2 in a tracking code as the Campaign Name.

The rule number.

See How Rules Are Processed for more information.

Each rule set applies to a specific variable. Valid selections are:

• Starts With
• Ends With
• Contains
• Regular Expression