How do I segment my users in Google Analytics to show only users who have triggered an event "X" times?

Question

I'm trying to segment my users in Google Analytics to show only users who have performed a specific event "X" time(s).

I can only seem to segment them by either "they did, or did not, trigger this event". Current Filter for this: "Filter, Users, Include, Event Action exactly matches 'SentMessage'"

What I tried from here, was to add an "AND" statement, to say "AND, Event Value, Per User, >= 1, 5, 10, ect..."

However when I apply this "AND" statement, the only value that returns any numbers is "0". If it selects 1+, it shows me 0% of users. I'm thinking this "Event Value" is not being linked to the filtered event above, but I'm not sure why, and I can't figure out how.

Anyone know? Huge block for me right now :/

Answer 1

You can segment users who have activated the event, and add the metric "total events" to the filter, and set to the number you want (total events = X).

The problem with this is it will return you all the users that activated the event X times during their entire lifetime (not just the selected data range).

There is a workaround if X is 10 or less, which is including users who went through a sequence of X steps with the event.

The limitation with this is X can't be more than 10, and it will only count through the previous 90 days, and you can't change that number to anything less (or more, or dynamically with the data range).