# Events

## Overview

For an overview on what are events, check out our documentation below

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## Using Presight Events

Visit your **Data Hub**, where you will be able to see the tab **Events**. Click **+ New** to create.

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## <mark style="color:blue;">A. Define an Event</mark>

There are 2 ways for you to define events on Presight

### 1. Pointing to a Date

* Simply select a date from the menu when you are prompted with this modal.

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* Give it a name and a description (optional), then hit **Save Event**.

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* In the example, the defined event **Order Placed** is when customer created orders, so, the date used to define the event is <mark style="color:purple;">**Order date**</mark> in <mark style="color:purple;">**Orders**</mark> table

### 2. Building on top of existing events

The second type of definition applies when many actions can be considered as one event. For example, an **Browsing Product** event happens when a user either **Views a Product** or **Searches for a Product**. For this type:

* Simple switch to tab **Event** and select what you want from the list

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* Select all the constituent events, then click **Save Event**.

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*This can alternatively be done when you use metric funnel, cohort or event paths if you just want to toy around with different definitions first before committing to creating a permanent event definition.*
