June 2015 Summaries

Mixpanel has enhanced its functionality to allow users to hide outdated or incorrect event and property names from dropdown lists when segmenting reports or creating custom events, without affecting the underlying data. This feature helps maintain a clean and relevant user interface by preventing irrelevant entries, such as typographical errors, from cluttering dropdown menus. To hide a property, users can navigate through the Project Settings and Data Management tabs, selecting the specific property to conceal. It's important to note that hiding is reversible and doesn't delete any data, allowing users to manage visibility as needed. Despite hidden settings, all data remains accessible in Mixpanel’s Live View report, ensuring transparency about what data is being transmitted. However, this feature does not affect the visibility of properties in People reports.

Mixpanel's Live View report is a real-time tool that allows users to monitor events within their projects, making it valuable for testing, debugging, and exploring user behavior. Users can view individual user activities by interacting with icons next to event names, regardless of their association with a People Profile. The tool offers filtering options by event names or properties, with the ability to toggle between AND/OR logic for multiple filters. It distinguishes between properties set by the developer and those from Mixpanel's default library, displaying them in "Your Properties" and "Mixpanel Properties" columns. Users can customize the column layout in the report and utilize a NOT syntax to exclude specific terms from search results.