Cross-project events

Cross-project events help large optimization teams track consistent, program-level metrics across multiple properties.

Usually, an event exists and is tracked only in the project where you created it. Cross-project events help you track key events across your Optimizely Web Experimentation and Optimizely Feature Experimentation projects.

With cross-project events, you can:

• Track the same event across different projects to ensure consistency.

• Create a set of program-level metrics and reuse them for all your sites and applications.

• Define metrics for a global component that crosses into property-specific events.

For example, your company has multiple web properties split into separate Optimizely Web Experimentation and Optimizely Feature Experimentation projects. One set of program-level metrics is used to manage all the properties. For example, a key metric tracks engagement with the search bar in the enterprise site and all local store sites. To track this same metric in all properties, you would ordinarily have to set it up in every project. With cross-project events, you can add the pre-defined event to any Optimizely Web Experimentation or Optimizely Feature Experimentation project.

Cross-project events do not affect snippet size. Just enable cross-origin tracking so project snippets can sync. If you expect visitors to cross domains or top-level domains, you can use the waitForOriginSync API.

Create a cross-project event 

Creating an event is available in projects for which you have a collaborator role.

Add a cross-project metric

1. By default, the metrics flow shows events in the current project. To include cross-project events in an experiment, go to the Metrics page and click All projects.
   

2. The All projects view shows events shared across all Optimizely Web Experimentation, Optimizely Performance Edge, and Optimizely Feature Experimentation projects where you are a collaborator. Click the event to add it as a metric.

3. Click Save to confirm your changes. 

Edit a cross-project event 

1. Find the project where you originally created the event. The project name is listed below the event name on the Metrics page within an experiment.

   

2. Switch to the project where the event lives.
   
3. Go to Implementation > Events and select and edit the event.

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