Creating client-side and server-side views using custom dimensions doesn't work for transactions

[mjgs]

I'm trying to setup 2 views, 1 to show client-side analytics and 1 to show server-side analytics.

In the server side analytics code I set a custom dimension to a text string (there is a list of allowed strings).

Then in the UI I setup filters that use the custom dimension to either exclude all the strings (client-side) or include some/all of the strings (server-side) traffic in the view.

I find that it works great for events and pageviews but it doesn't work for transaction analytics.

I've tried adding the custom dimension to the transaction and/or the item object:

req.visitor.transaction({
	transactionId: 'trans-12345',
	transactionAffiliation: '',
	transactionRevenue: 500,
	transactionShipping: 50,
	transactionTax: 100,
	cd1: 'custom-dimension-name-from-allowed-list'
}, {
	itemName: 'item-54321',
	itemPrice: 500,
	itemQuantity: 1,
	itemCode: 1,
	itemCategory: 'category-12345',
	cd1: 'custom-dimension-name-from-allowed-list'	
}).send();

So the only way to display transaction analytics is in the client-side view (by not excluding the transaction custom dimension strings), which isn't great because it's really server-side analytics.

Looking at the code it seems like the library just passes the custom dimension directly to google in the params object.

In the google UI view E-commerce Settings I have both settings set to On:

• Enable E-commerce
• Enable Enhanced E-commerce Reporting

Reading this tutorial it seems the enhanced setting is necessary for product level dimensions such as transaction ID.

Is it possible to add a custom dimension to a transaction and then create filters in the UI that use that dimension? And if it isn't, is there another way to create the client-side and server-side views?

[mjgs]

I checked this again today and the data has started to filter into the views as expected. I thought 3-4 hours was enough to wait but it took 24 hours.