Change Analytics Unique Identifier?

Hello, I have been trying to figure out a way to easily test our funnel logic by doing multiple playthroughs of our game on the same system. Is there an easy way to change my dev system's identifier so Unity Analytics will see it as a new user/machine when I reset our game and do another playthrough?

I've seen this: https://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/Analytics.Analytics.SetUserId.html

...but the documentation for its use (and even what exactly you pass for "userId") is a bit... sparse Can I just pass a random int?

Is the unique id something I change in Windows 10 (and is that what Unity is using for its ID)?

Thank you for any suggestions!

 

Also, a related question - what c# code can I use to print the current unique id Analytics is using for my system? While I see there is a SetUserId I don't see any kind of "GetUserId". Thanks again!

 

Anyone from the Unity Analytics team that could help us out here?

 

@Greyborn,

I would suggest doing this example to change your sessionId for your funnel tests:

1. Fire the funnel.
2. Call `PlayerPrefs.DeleteKey("unity.cloud_userid_h2665564582");`
3. Restart the editor/build
4. Repeat.

Restarting will re-create the key "unity.cloud_userid_h2665564582" and also assign the new value to

AnalyticsSessionInfo.userId

. I found this post useful as it shows a list of keys for playerPrefs.

Note: Different Unity versions might have different player pref keys. I'm using 2018.1.5f1 for my test.

We will be deprecating

Analytics.SetUserId()

in the next version of Unity. This is to help developers to comply to GDPR better by avoiding the sending of analytics events that may contain personal data. Before the deprecation you could essentially submit your own userID to help identify where the events are coming from and identify the players.

If you want to print the userId to the console then you can use

AnalyticsSessionInfo.userId

or

print(PlayerPrefs.GetString("unity.cloud_userid_h2665564582"));

.

Hope this helps!

 

An app reinstall would be considered a new user.

 

Thank you both, very helpful info!

 

How would you reset the Analytics user ID in the Unity Editor (for testing)? It's not convenient to reinstall the app in the editor.

 

What are you testing in the Editor that requires a new ID? And you would not "reinstall" in the Editor, you just press Play to run the game.

 

Well, as you saw in this thread, we're trying to make sure that when a user opts out, we can detect it in our game and disable Facebook/AppsFlyer data tracking as well. We need to be able to reset the randomly generated analytics user GUID in the Editor, since opting-out is a permanent choice for a given user.

It looks like UnityEngine.Analytics stores this value in PlayerPrefs, so we just need to delete the key "unity.cloud_userid" before playing the game.

 

Each user has their own "opt out" page where they can change their setting, if that helps. It's also informative to run Charles Proxy to see the network requests https://support.unity3d.com/hc/en-us/articles/115002917683-Using-Charles-Proxy-with-Unity

 

Exactly, that's what I'm referring to. I'd like to "generate a new user" when testing these cases from within the Unity Editor and using the Data Privacy button.