: Track a Adobe Flash app hosted on multiple domains with Google Analytics I'm working on a flash app that's gonna be distributed to more and more partners (and obviously domains). It needs to

@Kimberly868

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I'm working on a flash app that's gonna be distributed to more and more partners (and obviously domains). It needs to be tracked aggregated and also separately.

I implemented Google Analytics using gaforflash, tracking virtual pageviews and events inside the flash app.

What I want to achieve:


View an aggregated report of all partners.
Identify the partner not by the domain (where the flash is used), but by a partnerID.
Each partner needs access to the report of his domain. (no admin rights needed)


I came up with this solution:


Using only one "Web property" in Google Analytics.

UA-XXXXXX-4
.example.com

Set a custom/virtual hostname per partner. (GA's "utmhn" parameter)

partner1.example.com
partner2.example.com

Create a profile for each partner, setting the filter to include only the relevant "subdomain"


Problems that came up:


The gaforflash library doesn't support overriding the host name.

Possible workaround: The gaforflash source code is available, so I could add the functionality.

Any goal from the "master" profile is not copied to the partners profile.

profile 1: include traffic from hostname ^partner1.
profile 2: include traffic from hostname ^partner2.





Is it (very) bad to fake the hostname?
Are there better approaches?
Or what improvements could you think of?

UPDATE:

I'm looking primarily for a solid data structure inside Google Analytics regardless of the flash implementation. The only limitations:


We need an aggregated view across all partners
Our partners need to have access to their subset of data
We want to identify the partner by a custom partnerID, not the domain

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