Subproperties are available only to Google Analytics 360 accounts that are linked to a Google Marketing Platform organization with an active 360 order. Only a Google Analytics 360 property can be the source property for a subproperty.
Create a subproperty
Subproperties have an additional cost for data. The cost of events in each subproperty is one half the cost of the events in the source property, per the terms of your 360 contract. You are not charged for source-property events that you filter out per the configuration of the subproperty. Contact your Google partner or Google account manager if you have questions about your 360 contract.
To create a subproperty
-
You must be an Administrator on the Analytics account.
- The source property must be an ordinary property. (You cannot create a subproperty from another subproperty or a roll-up property.)
- In Admin, under Property, click Subproperty management > Create a subproperty.
Note: The previous link opens to the last Analytics property you accessed. You can change the property using the property selector. You must be an Editor or above to create a subproperty.
- Select a 360 source property under the Source property name menu.
- Enter a name for the subproperty and select the timezone and currency.
- Select I'm aware of the additional cost in creating this property.
The cost for subproperty events is one half the cost of events in the source property (based on the terms of your 360 contract), for example, each two events in a subproperty cost the same as one event in the source property.
- Click Next.
- Click Edit filter to configure the include and/or exclude conditions that define which event data from the source property appears in the subproperty.
While we don't have a strict limit on the number of subproperty filters, it's recommended to streamline your configuration by using only the necessary filters.
You can use AND and OR logic when you create conditions. For example, you can configure an include condition like:
City exactly matches Hong Kong
AND
Age is one of 18-24
You can also use the Or option to specify that the value for the dimension is (not set). For example:
City exactly matches Hong Kong
OR
City exactly matches {{not set}}
- When you've finished configuring the conditions for the filter, click Confirm, then click Next.
- Select an industry category for the subproperty, the size of the business you measure with the subproperty, and the reasons you use Analytics.
- Click Create.
List of dimensions you can use to configure filter conditions
Events coming from the source property can be filtered using subproperty event-level filters.
The list is composed of a few predefined dimensions and event-level custom dimensions that the customer created.
- Continent
- Subcontinent
- Country
- Region
- City
- Language
- Language Code
- Platform
- GMP App ID
- Measurement ID
- Page Path
- Full Page URL
- Page Title
- Screen Name
- Event parameters (dimensions)
- Event name
- OS Version
- Browser Version
- Signed-in with User-ID
Edit a subproperty
To edit a subproperty, you must be an Administrator or Editor on the subproperty or its source property.
You’ll edit a subproperty when you want to:
- Edit the event filter you configured when you created the subproperty, which determines the events that flow to the subproperty
- Edit any of the settings that appear in Admin > Property access management
Edit subproperty event filter
To edit the event filter:
- In Admin, under Property, click Property access management.
Note: The previous link opens to the last Analytics property you accessed. You can change the property using the property selector. You must be an Administrator at the property level to edit the event filter.
- In the row for the subproperty, click Edit filter.
- Modify the filter conditions as needed (see instructions, above).
- Click Save.
Edit subproperty settings
To edit the settings:
- In Admin, under Property, click Property access management.
Note: The previous link opens to the last Analytics property you accessed. You can change the property using the property selector. You must be an Administrator at the property level to edit the settings.
- Select the subproperty you want to edit.
- Click the option you want to edit (e.g. property settings, access management, data import).
Move a subproperty
You can't move a subproperty from one account to another since the subproperty relies on its source property for all its data.
If you want to move a source property, you need to first delete all its subproperties (move all the subproperties to the trash and wait 35 days for Analytics to delete them permanently).
Learn more about moving properties
Downgrade a source property or subproperty from 360 to Standard
To downgrade a source property from 360 to Standard, you first need to delete all of its subproperties. Learn more about how to downgrade
Subproperties exist only as 360 entities. You can't downgrade them from 360 to Standard.
Change history
Changes that you make to a source property that affect a subproperty and changes that you make directly to a subproperty are both recorded in the change history for that subproperty.
Changes that you make to a source property are recorded in the change history for that source property.