Finding Experiments in the Experiment Library
Learn how to filter, search and sort the Experiment Library, and what the Draft, Running, Deployed, Ended and Archived views each contain.
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The Experiment Library is the full list of experiments for the website selected in the header. It is the page you come back to: everything else about an experiment is reached from a row here.
Status views
The views across the top filter by status, and each shows a count so you can see where the work is without clicking through:
- All — every experiment that is not archived. This is the default.
- Draft — created but never launched. Nothing is live and no data is being collected.
- Running — live now and splitting traffic.
- Deployed — a winning variant has been rolled out to all matching visitors.
- Ended — finished, kept for reference. Results remain readable.
- Archived — deliberately put out of the way. Archived experiments appear only in this view, which is why the All count excludes them.
The selected view is held in the URL, so a filtered list can be linked to or bookmarked.
The columns change with the view
Columns that would be permanently empty are hidden rather than shown blank. Draft shows a created date instead of a start date, because a draft has never started. Running hides the end date, because a running experiment does not have one yet.
Click any column header with a sort control to reorder by it, including ID, name, dates, creator and status.
Searching
The search box matches on experiment name and ID. Matching ignores accents, so searching for rea finds "Réassurance" — useful on multilingual sites where the exact spelling is not what you remember.
Searching by ID is the fastest route when you have an experiment number from a colleague or a support conversation.
Row actions
The menu at the end of each row holds the actions available for that experiment, and two of them are deliberately restricted:
- View — open the experiment.
- Duplicate — copy it into a new draft. Available on any experiment.
- Archive — only enabled on Ended experiments. There is no reason to archive something still running.
- Delete — only enabled on Drafts. An experiment that has collected data cannot be deleted, because deleting it would destroy the record of a decision your team has already acted on. End it, then archive it.
Notes
- The library is scoped to the website chosen in the header. If an experiment is missing, check the website selector first.
- Archived experiments are not deleted and their results stay intact.