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tylers45603141
Level 2
Aug 9, 2018 8:26 PM UTC
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Make 'Previous Page' & 'Next Page' Dimensions in Workspace

In Adobe reports you are able to run previous page and next page reports which is very handy. In Workspace you are able to see similar data using the flow analysis. An improvement on both of these, IMO, would be to have a 'Previous Page' and 'Next Page' dimensions that you could drag and drop on visualizations all within Analysis Workspace.

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New Participant
May 31, 2024 10:39 AM UTC

Hi,

Any plans on when this could be available in CJA via derived fields?

 

Many years have passed and, as far as I know, this feature is still not available. 

With SQL this is a simple use of Next or Previous functions, so unfortunately more and more times I need to take data out of CJA to do these analysis.

 

I think Derived Fields are an amazing feature, but it needs to expand its functionalities faster to be able to match the potential expectations and to avoid moving some Analysis out of CJA.

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New Participant
Dec 13, 2022 1:37 PM UTC

I vote to have this feature as well, especially now that Adobe is discontinuing reports

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Level 4
Jan 5, 2022 2:11 PM UTC

I use Previous Page and Next Page reports in R&A because there isn't a corresponding substitute in Workspace (try clicking the Try in Workspace button).  These reports answer basic (and potentially advanced) questions that can't be answered any other way in the tool.

 

So why isn't it feasible to do in Adobe Analytics Workspace?  I think the concern now is that Reports & Analytics is going away and getting that capability back requires purchasing another tool (CJA).  Previous and Next dimensions would be best, but even a right click node menu option in the Flow chart to generate the table (similar to the Fallout touchpoint option Breakdown fallout at this touchpoint) would solve the issue.

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WendyS-W
New Participant
Nov 2, 2021 2:56 PM UTC

@schaubma I agree. That would be a great feature. I'm guessing they're moving all of these sorts of issues/questions/recommendations into the CJA product. 

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New Participant
Sep 13, 2021 6:17 PM UTC

I am interested in another related use case. I want to find circular navigation on the site. So I want to know when the next page is the same as the previous page. This would be similar to reloads where the next page is the same as the current page, but one step back.

 

For example, the user navigates from page A to page B and then back to page A. I can do this myself today for specific pages, but I want a way to do this globally to identify friction in the site.

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New Participant
Sep 13, 2021 6:13 PM UTC

If you have previous page name in your implementation, finding the next page from any page is pretty straightforward. The drawback is that you have to do this for one page at a time that you are interested in next page.

 

Create a segment where the previous page equals the page you want to get a list of next pages. Drop that on a table with Page Name, and that will produce a list of all the next pages from that page. 

 

For example, if I wanted all the next pages from Login, I would create a segment where the previous page is login and put that on a report with page names for the whole site and it will only show you pages where the previous page was login, aka "the next page"

 

 

 

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trevor-paulsen
Employee
Feb 10, 2021 5:06 PM UTC

Love this idea. While this isn't something that's very feasible for us to do in standard Adobe Analytics, it is something we're looking at doing with Customer Journey Analytics using a new feature we're working on called "Derived Dimensions". To learn more about CJA check out this page: CJA Spark Page

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Employee
Dec 18, 2020 8:56 PM UTC

This idea was archived in error, so re-opening back to New. It remains on the backlog for future consideration!

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mmw09er
New Participant
Dec 18, 2020 7:36 PM UTC

Archived? Does that mean rejected?

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jantzen_b
Employee
Oct 27, 2020 10:23 PM UTC
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