Guide - Set up Custom Dimensions (parameters) in GA4 - News moduels

For the set-up for Modular see here: https://support.visiolink.com/hc/en-us/articles/21345503430034-Guide-Set-up-Custom-Definitions-parameters-in-GA4-Modular-App 

GA4 is Event based, where each Event Names are sent with Event Parameters (sub information). Therefore, you are no longer limited to store all your parameters in the three categories used in GA3.

Visiolink 12 standard events in GA4:

1. vl_event_download
2. vl_event_publication
3. vl_event_page
4. vl_event_article_end
5. vl_event_search
6. vl_event_interstital_impression
7. vl_event_interstital_click
8. vl_event_hotspot_impression
9. vl_event_hotspot_click
10. vl_event_audio_end
11. vl_event_podcast_end
12. vl_event_feed
13.  

Visiolinks standard events will automatically be sent to your GA4 account. However, the events will first be visible when the data connection have been set-up in your app/apps. 

For all of Visiolinks standard events different parameters follows. One important aspect in GA4 is that all custom parameters need to be set-up as Custom dimensions in order to use them in reporting. Therefore, if you want to see all additional information that is send with each of Visiolinks Standard events, it is necessary to set them up as Custom dimensions.
The next section of this guide goes through how you set-up all Event parameters as Custom dimensions.

Set up Custom Dimensions in GA4:

The following set-up of Custom dimensions will include all Visiolinks 12 Standard events. It is however very individual if you have all events present in your app. Though, it will always be a good idea to set up all parameters, then you are insured you don’t miss any tracking if you at a later point implement ex. Podcast.

If you set-up all parameters for all 12 main events this will include 41 custom dimension and 1 custom metric.

Here is the overview of the 41 custom dimensions:

If you have bougth the feature Module tracking you will need to set-up one more parameter: 

The process of setting the custom dimensions up is identical. The only different is the scope of the custom dimension. It is possible to choose ‘Event’ or ‘User’. The different between these two is that event parameter can change value through out a session, where a user custom dimension always will take the same value through a session.

Setting up a Custom dimension:

Step 1: Go to your Google Analytics 4 Property and click on the Admin-panel in the bottom left.

Step 2: Click on "Custom definitions" located in the "Data display" section.

Step 3

Click on "Create custom dimension".

Step 4

Fill out the form using the information found in this guide. Below example is using the information for the User Parameter "vl_value_orientation" (See section 1 for this information). The descriptions are not mandatory.

Click ‘Save’. The user scoped custom dimension is now added to you property.

Step 5

Save custom dimension.

You have now added one of the parameters needed to capture valuable data. We highly recommend that you repeat step 3 through 5 until all parameters are added.

The only custom metric we collect is 'Duration', therefore you only need to add this one metric.

Sum up:

When you have finished the set-up of all the Custom dimensions and metric you can now use the events and parameters to create reports. Further you can also use the parameters to build dashboards in Looker Studio. 
If you have set up all custom dimensions you will now have 41 rows.