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Can GA4 filter Event names or Event parameters by its name?

For a website example.com, it has 1000+ pages:

  • example.com/tiger/english/
  • example.com/tiger/french/
  • example.com/tiger/ukraine/
  • example.com/cat/english/
  • example.com/cat/romanian/
  • ...

The pattern is simple, slugname/language - all pages follow the pattern.

When I was using GA3(UA) tracking, I can just type /tiger/ to filter all tiger pages, and /english/ to filter all English pages. It looks like this:

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It's so flexible that I can filter out anything I want on the fly.

However, in GA4, it stops tracking page URLs. I can only send those strings as custom events/event parameters. How can I filter the topics in GA4? I looked hard but failed to find this magic text box in GA4:

The GA3 text filter

After some research, I tried to define custom names here:

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And am able to filter by those pre-defined terms.

But there're so many limitations compared to GA3 filters:

  1. Only 50 terms can be defined
  2. I have to open the admin page and define the terms before making any queries.

Is there any way to use the textbox filter in GA4?

Thanks for any kind of tips/advices.

Solution

  • Does this photo help you ?

    Follow these steps:

    Reports - > Involvement -> Events :

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    As an example for my case, I am filtering the dimension equal to "page path" and the value includes "/it-IT"

    Sorry, my default language setting is set in Italian, I tried to use translate in English but after applying the filter it will remain in Italian anyway, I guess it is clear. If it is not helpful let me know.

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