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MichaelWon
MichaelWon
Level 5
November 14, 2016
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Create a proper Hour dimension for Web (Native already has it)

  • November 14, 2016
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I posted this already, just bringing it back to the top!  Apologies for not following the rules.

We currently have both web and native implementations going to the same report suite.  Web has an "Hour" dimension that takes the following format (10:00 2016-11-13), Native has an "Hour of Day" dimension that takes the following format (23).

For me, the native dimension is preferred because that allows me to compare dates based on the time of day.  The we dimension is limiting because it is tied to a date so you cannot compare metrics.

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    jakewinter1
    New Participant
    November 15, 2016

    We want to add rolling date ranges in segments; there are a ton of great use cases that would be solved by this. Either way, we'll keep an eye on this idea for votes and comments and make sure we're solving your need as we go. 

     

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    THAT! Please!!!

    Jeremy_Brugger
    Level 2
    November 15, 2016

    @benjamingaines

    MichaelWon
    MichaelWonAuthor
    Level 5
    November 15, 2016

    Can you add Hour of Day (00, 01, 02, 03, 04, etc) as a dimension in Analysis Workspace (and other tools) ASAP?  Right now all you have is 'Hour' which is bound to a date.  this makes it very difficult to compare day over day by hour.

    mubarakd5726232
    mubarakd5726232
    Level 4
    November 15, 2016

    Similar for 'Month' . Adobe has added Month dimension meaning customers do not have to implement/capture however this captures  the month AND year .. which reduces functionality

     

    eg.

    1. As with above example I can't have 'Month' as the breakdown dimension and then use the 'new' compare time periods functionality to compare month traffic YOY .. this concept would apply to other Date dimensions offered out of the box.

    2. Creating segments .. we capture hour of day, day of week in addition to Adobe dimensions which allows for creating segments too (as well as comparisons similar to above example) eg. visits duing hours 8 or 9 .. or visitors during weekend etc.  But would make sense if this functionality was offered 'out of the box' or without the need to duplicate recording.

     

    Whilst it 'may' be necessary for Adobe to capre the time/date metrics as they do, so my slightly alternative suggestion would be they classify and make appropriate classifications available ;-)

    Andrew_Wathen_
    Andrew_Wathen_
    New Participant
    November 15, 2016

    I totally agree with this.  We've paid for a VISTA rule to allow us to create a dimension that enables us to do this.

     

    It definitely feels like this is funcationality that should come straight out of the box.

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