Elements duplication

Introduction

The “Copy Management” user interface is available to administrators only, from the “Admin” menu:

It allows duplicating sites, containers, variables, deduplication settings and tags.

Note: only the site copy feature is available at present; container, variables, deduplication settings and tag copy features are currently under development.

Copying a site

Follow these steps to copy an existing site and its contents:

1/ “Element to copy”: select “Site” from the drop down menu to duplicate a site.

2/ “Site to copy”: select the site you wish to duplicate.

3/ “Add several new sites based on the site to copy”: If you wish to copy the content of a given site to another one and only, select “No”. If you wish to copy that site’s content to more than one site, select “Yes”.

4/ “Site name”: enter the name(s) of your new site(s). The “+” and “–“icons allow adding or deleting sites.

5/ “Grant same rights to the same user(s) on the new site(s)”: If you wish to duplicate user access from one site to another click “Yes”, otherwise click “No” (should you click “No”, no one else but you will have access to the duplicated site).

6/Click the “COPY” button to validate your settings.

What elements are duplicated with the “Site Copy” feature?

The “Site Copy” feature duplicates the following elements and creates one or more new sites with the exact same settings as the source site:

  • TagCommander product:

    • Containers

    • Tags

    • Events

    • “Static JavaScript Code” and “Dynamic JavaScript code” files

    • Rules

    • Data layer (external, internal and event variables)

    • Deduplication settings

    • Privacy settings (if the module is activated)

  • MixCommander product:

    • Attribution models

    • Segments

    • Excluded IPs

    • Channel identification

    • Dimensions (conversion/traffic)

    • Currencies

    • Costs

  • DataCommander product:

    • Segments

    • Streams

  • Cross-product options: connectors

The “Site Copy” feature does not duplicate these items:

  • TagCommander product:

    • Generated container versions

  • MixCommmander product:

    • Custom reports

    • Raw data

  • DataCommander product:

    • Raw data

Copying a container

Note: only administrators and technical users can copy sites

Follow these steps to copy an existing container and its contents:

1) – Click the “Admin” tab

2) – Click the “Copy Management” tab

3) – Select “Container” from the dropdown menu

4) – Select the site the container you want to duplicate belongs to

5) – Select the container to copy

6) – Select the site to host the duplicated container (among the sites you manage)

7) – Choose whether you want to create a new container or replace an existing container with the duplicate

8) – Name the copy

9) – Click “Copy”

Copying tags

Note: only administrators and technical users can copy tags

The copy tag functionality is also available on the deploy step of containers for admin users (can be added to custom profiles with Profile Management).

Follow these steps to copy tags from a given container:

1) – Click the “Admin” tab

2) – Click the “Copy Management” tab

3) – Select “Tag” from the dropdown menu

4) -Select the site containing the tags you wish to copy

5) – Select the container the tags are in

6) – Select the tag(s) to copy

7) – Select the destination site

8) – Select the destination container

9) – Click the “+” button to add more destination sites and containers

10) – Click copy

Copying variables

Note: only administrators and technical users can copy variables

Follow these steps to copy existing variables:

1) – Click the “Admin” tab

2) – Click the “Copy Management” tab

3) – Select “Variables” from the dropdown menu

4) – Sélectionnez le site qui contient les variables que vous souhaitez copier

5) – Sélectionnez les variables à copier

6) – Vous verrez affiché le nombre de variables qui ont été sélectionnées

7) – Ajoutez le site dans le menu déroulant

8) – Ajoutez plus de sites de destination pour les variables sélectionnées si besoin est

9) – Click “copy”

Copying tag librairies

Note: only administrators and technical users can copy tag librairies (to learn more about the libraries’ customization options, please click here)

Follow these steps to copy tag librairies:

1) – Click the “Admin” tab

2) – Click the “Copy Management” tab

3) – Select “Tags Library” from the dropdown menu

4) – Choose the site containing the tag whitelist to copy

5) – Select one or more destination sites

6) – Click “Copy”

Copying deduplication settings

Note: only administrators and technical users can copy deduplication settings

Follow these steps to copy existing deduplication rules:

1) – Click the “Admin” tab

2) – Click the “Copy Management” tab

3) – Select “Deduplication Configuration” from the dropdown menu

4) – Choose the site containing the deduplication configuration to copy

5) – Select on or more destination sites

6) – Click “Copy”

Copying rules

Follow these steps to copy rules from one container to another (or within the same container):

1) Click the “Admin” tab

2) Click the “Copy Management” tab

3) Select “Rules” from the dropdown menu displaying all the possible elements to copy:

4) Select the site and the container you wish to copy rules from:

5) Select the rules you wish to duplicate from the “perimeter” or “constraint” sections:

6) Select the target site and container from the dropdown menu:

7) Click copy

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