Google Analytics Customer filters & the correct syntax

[Nightwing]

Good afternoon from torential rain and thunder Wetherby UK

Ive been delving into the world of custom filters in Google analytics and Ive hit a problem.

Apart from Googles advice being out of date (wont get into that one) I wanted to set up clone a profile of an existing site and set up a filter that would exclde USA traffic.

But a country can be called many things e.g. United Sates USA America so how do you know what is the correct name to put in the filter pattern box?

Here is a screen shot of my efforts :http://i216.photobucket.com/albums/cc53/zymurgy_bucket/filter-toexclude-usatrafficcopy.jpg (I chaned it to United States)

So my question is where is there a list of the correct syntax for the filter pattern box?

Taker for example you wnated to set up a custom filter to include just Palm OS traffic apprently from reading this the correct filter patter is Palm OS, i only know that from this http://www.e-nor.com/blog/web-analytics/tracking-mobile-devices-in-google-analytics

Whilst Google has lots of documentation about filed patterns as documented here http://support.google.com/analytics/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=1034380&topic=1034830&ctx=topic

Where in the name of flying spacial jockstraps is there documentation for the correct filter pattern syntax.

Help my head hurts

[Nightwing]

Thanks Brent

[Copstead]

As far as excluding traffic from the United States, you would need to exclude "Visitor Country"  and then type "United States".  Knowing what to type for the Country is based on what Google displays to us in the Demographics, Location section.

Instead of filters, I would probably setup Advanced Segments.  Filters actually remove the information, where Advanced Segments allows you to look at certain areas without losing any information.