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Understanding Event Tracking and Deletion in Analytics

Hey! If I drop an event, will it in no way be tracked later on if I send it again at some point? does it do this on event name? I have some generic events I would like to drop to get other similarily named events in. I do not want to use my deletions for this

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if you drop an event, that event will not be ingested moving forward, in the future, you can start ingesting it again if you remove the drop
Santi (.
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dropping events is based on the name of the event
Santi (.
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trick: let's say you track event1 and you drop it, you can track event2 and change the display name of event2 to show event1 in reports
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Tijmen v.
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hahah okay cool, if I undrop? it will also get all the history back?
Tijmen v.
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I am mainly concerned with clogging up the selection fields with a lot of random event names
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no, when you undrop, all the events ingested while the event was dropped are not recovered. The idea is that when you drop an event you are telling ingestion server to disregard that data, so we don't store it anywhere
Tijmen v.
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also not the data that was ingested when the event was not dropped yet?
Santi (.
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oh, yes, that data will appear
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if you drop an event, old data is still available in reports, you need to "hide"
Tijmen v.
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ahh yes, but hiding does not restrict access in the fields for people to use it
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drop: acts like a on/off at API/server level to store or not hide: acts as on/off for visibility in reports
Tijmen v.
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people can still find it 'rather easy' i'd say and get confused by it
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exactly, they can still type it manually but if it's hidden they will not see it in the dropdowns
Tijmen v.
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hmm, so no easy way to actually hide it for people, so they cannot even access it anymore
Tijmen v.
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does a deletion stop it from displaying?
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if it's hidden it will not appear the name actually, so only people who know that exists can type it manually and access it
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events appear in dropdown when they are not tracked for more than 28 days
Tijmen v.
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There is this option to pop-open hidden events in the selection displays right?
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if you drop it now, in 28 days, they will not appear in dropdowns if you hide it, they will not appear immediately
Tijmen v.
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ahhh so after 28days it will not appear anymore
Tijmen v.
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thats nice
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yes, and you can force it by dropping
Tijmen v.
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hmm it seems as in my mixpanel it does still show eventhough the 30day volume is 0?
Tijmen v.
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or is it only after dropping it?
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did you add a description to it or any change in lexicon?

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Mixpanel's report dropdown menus hide events that have not been fired within the last 30 days. The only exception are events that have been modified via the Lexicon interface, eg: by adding a description, hiding the event, changing the display name, etc. The events will still be available in the project's raw data, but will not be visible in the UI. We do this to reduce clutter from events that are no longer firing. Event properties and property values that have not been sent to your project in the last 28 days will also be hidden from dropdowns.

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https://docs.mixpanel.com/docs/tracking-best-practices/debugging#inactive-events-and-properties
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if you add a description to an event, even if it's not fired, it will still show in dropdowns
Tijmen v.
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might it be caused by me resetting the project just now?
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that could be too
Tijmen v.
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bcs after resetting the project, the events still keep existing which seems not so nice to me hahah
Tijmen v.
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I am resetting for a reason, not to still have all those cluttering events in my selection menus haha
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that is weird, resetting the project deletes all data
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could be the cache of dropdowns
Tijmen v.
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do you think I can delete the cache in some way?
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deleting the browser history/cache/cookies might work
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a way to know if this is the issue would be to open an incognito window in your browser and login again
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that incognito should not display cached events in the dropdown
Tijmen v.
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in the incognito it also is still there
Tijmen v.
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I am pretty sure this is also not fixed after 30 days
Tijmen v.
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bcs we have been running a project over a longer timespan than that and we saw no change
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mind opening a ticket to Support? we will be able to look at the project specifically and debug further
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https://mixpanel.com/get-support or support@mixpanel.com
Tijmen v.
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what should I report?
Tijmen v.
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Like I am not sure what the bug is, I will open it if you can supply me with a quick text if that is not to much to be asked
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You are trying to declutter events from dropdowns and after resetting the project, they are still appearing
Tijmen v.
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thankss
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