Correlating custom properties to events about appcenter

[Muras678]

Is there any update on this request ?
I also would like to know the other purpose of these custom properties and more over I would like to know where I can view those logged custom properties which I sent from app. I couldn't find them showing in both App center portal and Application Insights too.

[masked-dancer]

Hi @breyed, custom properties are used in quite a different way: they used for "filtering" users. Then, for example, if you want to send a push to only those users that have Gender: Female property, that would be the use case.
But they certainly won't appear on analytics events, which have their own mechanism for setting custom properties.

Anyway, this sounds like a feature request, thanks for reporting that!

@breyed was correct in:
The docs I found don't lend any insight into what custom properties are for other than "various purposes" which include push notifications. The implementation and docs look like they need updates.

As such, this still isn't clear. You state that custom properties are used for "filtering users", then, for example, sending those filtered users a push. Is this the only example? Can custom properties (as defined by method SetCustomProperties) be used, in any way, with modules Diagnostics/Crashes or Analytics? If so, how???

[Arie-Kanarie]

+1
Documentation should be updated. If only use of SetCustomProperties is for Push notification then "various purposes" shouldn't be mentioned.
But even better would be to add the properties set via SetCustomProperties to each event and crashlog.

[breyed]

Still applies: #41 (comment)

[breyed]

Still relevant. Maybe the bot is really a call to action. 😉

[Tommigun1980]

It would be courteous towards us developers to turn off that bot, which is wasting time as we have to fight it.

[breyed]

Issue to stalebot: "I'm not dead! ... I think I'll go for a walk." Of course, we all know how that turned out. 😮

[annakocheshkova]

Hi @breyed, custom properties are used in quite a different way: they used for "filtering" users. Then, for example, if you want to send a push to only those users that have Gender: Female property, that would be the use case.
But they certainly won't appear on analytics events, which have their own mechanism for setting custom properties.

Anyway, this sounds like a feature request, thanks for reporting that!

[hamswan]

Thanks @breyed , we have made a note of this feature request.

[breyed]

In the near term, it would helpful to clarify how custom properties work in the concept docs and in IntelliSense (cf. microsoft/appcenter-sdk-dotnet#818).

Higher level, some additional thought should be put into alignment of Application Insights and AppCenter. Coming from Application Insights, it was confusing that seemingly related concepts (AI Context and AppCenter global custom properties) turn out to be so different. Ideally, AI and AppCenter would share a common API for telemetry, with AppCenter just being an alternative destination.

[nikitag-ms]

Some of the concept namings are a bit confusing. What you are asking about sounds like custom events. Could you take a look and see if that is something that works for you?

It may still not be as seamlessly integrated with App Insights as you are suggesting, but it looks like there might be a way to make it work through designing and emitting properties in your scenario-specific way in conjunction with custom queries on the AI side.

[breyed]

This issue is referring to custom events. Each custom event has several standard properties such as WrapperSdkName, CarrierName, UserId, and OsBuild. It also has up to 20 properties specified by the code calling trackEvent. I thought the term to differentiate those from standard properties was "custom properties". However, it doesn't appear to be so, or at least not the same meaning of "custom properties" as is used by SetCustomProperties.

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[arek-avanade]

+1 here

[genericwoods]

+1

[Tommigun1980]

Is App Center going to get the axe? This is such a mandatory feature and considering that devs don't even reply here leads me to believe App Center will be deprecated soon. Please communicate on the state of this issue, if at all possible.

[mflanzani]

+1

[Tommigun1980]

Fwiw I made this package, https://github.com/Tommigun1980/AnalyticsSender, that provides 'custom properties' functionality until this issue is resolved.

But considering how mandatory a feature this is it should be added to the SDK.

[futuretap]

I logged #2110 as a feature request. I suggest displaying the custom properties under Analytics > Overview.

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This issue has been automatically marked as stale because it has not had any activity for 60 days. It will be closed if no further activity occurs within 15 days of this comment.

[futuretap]

The get-on-my-nerves bot is kicking again. 😟
It's still relevant!

[Tommigun1980]

They really want to close this issue…