How do I set up the User ID in Google Analytics?

Question

Following the documentation Set up the User ID it states:

The User ID is set at the property level. To find a property, click Admin, then select an account and a property. From the Property column, click Tracking Info then User ID .

I've looked at this and the screenshot below shows that for my profile (using Universal Analytics), there is no User ID option below Tracking Info .

• What am I doing wrong?
• Is there any better documentation for setting up User ID? A video even?

FWIW: My site is definitely sending the user id to Google Analytics -- the Google Analytics Debugger Chrome extension gives the following output:

Sent beacon:
v=1&_v=j18d&a=434892113&t=pageview&_s=1&dl=http%3A%2F%2Fread-able.com%2F&ul=en-us&de=UTF-8&dt=The%20Readability%20Test%20Tool&sd=24-bit&sr=1440x900&vp=1126x688&je=1&fl=12.0%20r0&_utma=147368500.818946455.1393192543.1396643738.1396900196.7&_utmz=147368500.1393192543.1.1.utmcsr%3D(direct)%7Cutmccn%3D(direct)%7Cutmcmd%3D(none)&_utmht=1396915192983&_u=MCCCg~&jid=600367557&cid=818946455.1393192543&uid=ghi-456-rst&tid=UA-920590-2&z=833810348


adSenseId        (&a)   434892113 
apiVersion       (&v)   1 
clientId         (&cid) 818946455.1393192543 
encoding         (&de)  UTF-8 
flashVersion     (&fl)  12.0 r0 
hitType          (&t)   pageview 
javaEnabled      (&je)  1 
joinId           (&jid) 600367557 
language         (&ul)  en-us 
location         (&dl)  http://read-able.com/ 
screenColors     (&sd)  24-bit 
screenResolution (&sr)  1440x900 
title            (&dt)  The Readability Test Tool 
trackingId       (&tid) UA-920590-2 
userId           (&uid) ghi-456-rst 
viewportSize     (&vp)  1126x688 
Sent Display Join Beacon: (jid="600367557") 
http://stats.g.doubleclick.net/collect?t=dc&aip=1&v=1&_v=j18d&tid=UA-920590-2&cid=818946455.1393192543&jid=600367557&z=1612498098

apiVersion (&v)   1 
trackingId (&tid) UA-920590-2 
clientId   (&cid) 818946455.1393192543 
joinId     (&jid) 600367557 

Answer 1

I found this same question here https://productforums.google.com/forum/#!topic/analytics/COvwmhZhE8c

And apparantly the functionality is not completely rolled out to all accounts yet.

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Edit:
The April 2 post " Universal Analytics: Out of beta, into primetime " on the Google Analytics blog says:

We're also gradually rolling out the User ID feature to help you better understand your customers' full journey.

Answer 2

I came across this issue as well. If you are starting from scratch you can kill the profile that doesn't show "User-ID" in the tracking.js section within admin and try to create a new one until you get the user-id settings page. I would recommend this because there is some bugginess in the reporting when trying to fire multiple trackers from an account which has this functionality vs. ones that dont. Ironically the tracker without this functionality will log correctly where-as the "updated" tracker doesn't track anything. bizarre...