Toggle for Custom VRS Components auto inclusion/exclusion

Hi Gigazelle, thanks for reaching out.

The ideas are definitely strongly related as the both relate to the way VRS curation currently affects the inclusion/exclusion of components.

However, my thread is very much focus on this impact on user created components (segments/calculated metrics).

Also, the suggested solutions are very different; the solution in this thread would not address some of the key issues I'd like to see solved such as the impact on segment sharing, segments being either available to all or available to none etc.

Which is a long way of saying I think they should be kept separate

Hi Andrew, that's an awesome thread that goes into pretty solid detail on the issues you're experiencing!

Do you feel like these two topics are related closely enough for them to be considered duplicates so we can focus the conversation in this thread, or do you feel like the two topics are different enough to warrant their own idea?

Hi jen.lasser​

I've got another related idea logged which goes into the details of the issues we've been experiencing:

Virtual Report Suite Curation: How did it get so messed up??

(somewhat regretting the slightly inflammatory title but guess it was a reflection of how frustrated I was )

Sorry to hear you are still struggling.  I sympathize greatly as we've had to abandon the use VRS curation until Adobe sorts this out  :-(

The confusion and impact on our end users was similar to what you appear to be experiencing.

I still come back the fact that I don't really understand why Adobe have included user created components (i.e. segments/calculated metrics) in VRS curation.

There are so many other better ways to manage access to segments/calculated metrics such as sharing, and workspace curation.

jen.lasser Alas, I have some followup- I'm doing a training on Wednesday and have given a training account the same sorts of access/rights that my users will have, so we see the same things. And now I see that without fuller rights to Virtual Report Suite admin, I don't even GET the "add new component" tick box-

This is what our users-in-training will all see when I have them create a new calculated metric. It's icky enough, I'm going to give up on using the VRS for now:(

Note this is related to/a duplicate of Have components addition in Virtual Report Suites be "exclude only" .

Ok thank you guys for providing this added info! I will pass this along to my colleagues focused on VRS so they can take it into consideration for the next iteration of VRS curation.

Thanks for looking into this and responding, Jen!

That "component may not appear" message does help a bit, though the messaging is a bit weird (something more along the lines of "would you like to include this component in the VRS? Yes/No" would be much clearer, and if I'm in a VRS it should default to "included", since the assumption is I created the thing because I want to use it here) but I still feel like for bigger orgs particularly, it's going to be a mess to maintain.