Chapter length

This page covers the Chapter length reporting dimension. See Chapter length for how to collect this variable.

The Chapter length dimension reports the duration of each chapter, in seconds.

How this dimension is populated

Chapter length is set by the player on every chapter start event.

Reporting system
Source
Adobe Analytics (processing rule)
Create a Processing rule that maps a.media.chapter.length to an eVar.
Adobe Analytics (classification)
Classification of the Chapter dimension — Adobe automatically creates this classification when Media Chapters is enabled for the report suite. You are responsible for populating and maintaining classification values.
Customer Journey Analytics
mediaReporting.chapterDetails.length
Data feeds (processing rule)
evar1-evar250, post_evar1-post_evar250 (the eVar that your processing rule maps a.media.chapter.length to)
Data feeds (classification)
N/A — Data feeds do not support classifications.
Audience Manager
c_contextdata.a.media.chapter.length

Classification approach

Adobe creates the Chapter length classification structure automatically when Media Chapters is enabled for the report suite. You are responsible for populating and maintaining the classification using Classification sets.

This approach provides a guaranteed 1:1 relationship between each chapter ID and its length. Classification updates apply retroactively across all historical data for that ID.

IMPORTANT
Do not change the Chapter length classification name. Renaming it can cause Adobe to recreate the original classification, resulting in a duplicate.

Processing rule approach

Create a Processing rule that maps a.media.chapter.length to an eVar. This approach captures the chapter length as a per-hit value without requiring classification maintenance.

The trade-off is that you lose the guaranteed 1:1 relationship between the chapter length and the parent Chapter dimension. If your implementation sends inconsistent values for the same chapter ID across events, multiple lengths can appear under the same chapter. Updating a value only applies to data moving forward.

Dimension items

Each item is the integer length value, in seconds, reported on chapter start.

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