Unset/Delete a Custom Dimension

[Joe Christopher]

Hello,

What is the best practice on deleting a custom dimension?  Let's say it is scoped at the user-level and you no longer want that value to be tied to the user.  Do you set it to an empty string or use a bucket value like 'not set'? 

I'm looking for the equivalent of _deleteCustomVar() in ga.js.  I understand why this doesn't exist in Universal Analytics due to the visitor level custom dimension not being stored in a cookie and sent on each request.

Thanks,

Joe

[nm]

Hi,

Currently, you can't delete them. So best practice is to set non-used ones with an empty string.

(GA drops reporting rows for dimensions with no values.)

Also changing the name in the UI has no effect in processing.

-Nick