When I m setting up the metrics is it

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< future teacher 7046> When I m setting up the metrics is it possible to use a boolean based condition not just a string

future-teacher-7046 · Answer

I think that would be hard to do in the current conditions UI without breaking things What do you think about using a textarea instead where you could enter something like a javascript condition like this ```event properties skipped trial === true amp amp ```

helpful-hydrogen-62495 · Answer

if that s what I gotta do i ll do it

future-teacher-7046 · Answer

Would you prefer keeping the current UI and just adding a datatype dropdown for each condition defaulting to string

helpful-hydrogen-62495 · Answer

I think that would be a bit more straightforward yeh At least for Mixpanel i think it s string and boolean Not sure they use other datatypes natively do they dates maybe although I ve been casting my dates to unix strings

future-teacher-7046 · Answer

I guess for Mixpanel at least we can probably auto detect the data types and do the conversion automatically I ll do some testing

helpful-hydrogen-62495 · Answer

yeh i think you already do this for numbers right Looking at my events we have strings numbers and booleans

future-teacher-7046 · Answer

I don t believe we re doing anything special for numbers

helpful-hydrogen-62495 · Answer

ahh well i guess I dont use any in my conditions yet either We may also have a type mismatch if someone tries to use a number in the condition then too

helpful-hydrogen-62495 · Answer

hey < future teacher 7046> do you have any ETA on the type auto detecting for Mixpanel

future-teacher-7046 · Answer

Should be able to get to it by end of this week

helpful-hydrogen-62495 · Answer

awesome thanks

future-teacher-7046 · Answer

< helpful hydrogen 62495> I pushed a fix for this It should handle booleans and numbers correctly now Let me know if you notice any issues

helpful-hydrogen-62495 · Answer

Just looked at the query so just so I understand you re casting the numbers and booleans to string

helpful-hydrogen-62495 · Answer

with the ```+ ```

future-teacher-7046 · Answer

yeah javascript is weird `true + == true `

helpful-hydrogen-62495 · Answer

nvm

future-teacher-7046 · Answer

numbers are the same when doing equality ` 10 == 10 ` The difference is when doing ` lt ` or ` gt ` we re detecting that it s a number and doing the comparison correctly Otherwise you end up with weird stuff like ` 10 lt 9 `