I'm working on a flash app that's gonna be distributed to more and more partners (and obviously domains). It needs to be tracked aggregated and also separately.

I implemented Google Analytics using gaforflash, tracking virtual pageviews and events inside the flash app.

What I want to achieve:

• View an aggregated report of all partners.
• Identify the partner not by the domain (where the flash is used), but by a partnerID.
• Each partner needs access to the report of his domain. (no admin rights needed)

I came up with this solution:

• Using only one "Web property" in Google Analytics.
  • UA-XXXXXX-4
  • .example.com
• Set a custom/virtual hostname per partner. (GA's "utmhn" parameter)
  • partner1.example.com
  • partner2.example.com
• Create a profile for each partner, setting the filter to include only the relevant "subdomain"

Problems that came up:

• The gaforflash library doesn't support overriding the host name.
  • Possible workaround: The gaforflash source code is available, so I could add the functionality.
• Any goal from the "master" profile is not copied to the partners profile.
  • profile 1: include traffic from hostname ^partner1\.
  • profile 2: include traffic from hostname ^partner2\.

Is it (very) bad to fake the hostname?
Are there better approaches?
Or what improvements could you think of?

UPDATE:

I'm looking primarily for a solid data structure inside Google Analytics regardless of the flash implementation. The only limitations:

• We need an aggregated view across all partners
• Our partners need to have access to their subset of data
• We want to identify the partner by a custom partnerID, not the domain