Managing Domains

Domains give you a clear overview of areas of responsibility and ownership within your schema, by mapping out which domains are stakeholders of each event and event variant in your tracking plan and which users belong to those domains.

Defining domains in Avo is a key step toward more organized, scalable data management, especially in larger workspaces with multiple teams. It enables your entire organization to operate within a single namespace, sharing data structures and working towards more consolidated tracking, while ensuring that the entities of your organization can operate comfortably without stepping on each-others’ toes.

What is a domain?

A domain refers to a certain function or area within your organization. It could be a product area (Search, Checkout, etc), an entire app for specific personas (Drivers, Riders, etc) or a business function independent of the product (Marketing, Sales, Finance, etc.).

Domains have different data needs and they need to be able to influence what data they get access to. But they have different access to the ability to generate the data they need. For instance: the finance team will need the product team to generate events related to the user experience so they can measure retention to predict financial outcomes.

By documenting domains as stakeholders on the events and event Variants in your tracking plan, anyone navigating your tracking plan is able to understand who is relying on which events and variants and who to loop in when changes are made or if an issue comes up.

Stakeholder domains

Why and how to assign domains as stakeholders on events and event variants

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Viewing and managing Domains

To see and manage your domains in Avo, navigate to your workspace settings and click to the tab labeled “Domains”. From there you can navigate to a view for each domain in your workspace

In the view for each domain you will see:

1. The domain team: The users in your workspace that have been assigned to the domain. One workspace member can be a part of one or multiple domain teams.

2. The domain events: The events and event variants where this domain has been added as a stakeholder, indicating that the domain depends on and/or is responsible for those events and variants.

Creating a Domain

To create a new domain, click on Create Domain and give it a name.

Adding domain members

Under the “Team” section, click “Manage” which will open a modal where you can search for members in your workspace and add them to the domain.

Assigning stakeholdership of events and event variants

From this view you can assign stakeholdership of multiple events in your tracking plan to the domain

1. Click “+ Add”
2. Select the events and variants from your tracking plan where you assign the domain as a stakeholder. You can filter events by category or tag to make it easier to find relevant events.
3. Click “Add” to finish adding the selected items to your domain

You can also add the domain as a stakeholder directly from your tracking plan.

Who can create and manage domains?

Creating domains: Workspace admins are able to create a new domain and add its first member(s).

Managing domains: Once set up, members of the domain can add new members and mark the domain as a stakeholder on events in the tracking plan. Workspace admins can also manage all domains in the workspace.