{"id":3614,"date":"2022-09-16T17:36:17","date_gmt":"2022-09-17T00:36:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/clarity.microsoft.com\/blog\/?p=3614"},"modified":"2025-07-30T09:38:40","modified_gmt":"2025-07-30T16:38:40","slug":"a-new-update-to-custom-id-functionality","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/clarity.microsoft.com\/blog\/a-new-update-to-custom-id-functionality\/","title":{"rendered":"Custom ID Functionality: New Feature Release!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

One of the benefits of Clarity is being able to dial in the interface to fit your needs when it comes to analytics, reporting and visualizations. We are excited to announce a new update to Clarity that will add further functionality for custom IDs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

If you aren’t familiar with the user ID feature here’s how it works. A generic user ID is assigned to each visitor when they come to your site, the ID will be assigned to features like Screen Recordings. At the same time, you can also assign other custom identifiers for users, sessions, and pages if you want to track custom features on your site. As seen below, it was previously possible only to filter by the randomly assigned Clarity user ID. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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After receiving your valuable feedback on expanding the custom ID feature, we categorized them into these top requests: <\/p>\n\n\n\n