Toggle for Custom VRS Components auto inclusion/exclusion

Hi jen.lasser​

We have also been forced to abandon the use of curated VRS due to the way the curation affects user created components (i.e. calculated metrics & Segments).

This is really frustrating as VRS curation should be a really powerful feature, but at the moment it is of no use to us.

My strong preference would be for VRS curation not to include curation of user created components as there are already other methods which are more flexible and appropriate for managing these components (e.g. workspace curation, sharing, user permissions)

Always happy to provide more information of use cases that it's causing problems with etc. if you are interested

Really hope Adobe revisits this one!

Hi Jen,

The problem we've run into at our company is that we probably add 5-10 events per week, maybe a variable or two, and some classifications. And then we have 6 or so VRS that we actively use.

We have two VRS that are used very often, which have just slight differences between them. When I create a calculated metric or segment for one, I want it to show up in all 6 VRS. So between having to add all new segments and calculated metrics to all the other VRS, and then having to go through all 6 VRS any time we add a new event, eVar, classification, etc... it was adding a lot of maintenance that could be easily fixed by the toggle in this idea.

It was enough of a pain that we've decided not to use this feature for now (customization of VRS components). Which is a real bummer, seeing that we classify our marketing channel detail variable, and now there are 3 versions of each of those classifications floating around, and once they've been dragged into a report, they're indistinguishable from each other. We would really have liked to use the renaming functionality so that each of these classifications could have a different name (indicating first, last, or multi attribution).

So this "component may not appear" pop-up is a nice first attempt, but ultimately not helpful enough to enable us to use the VRS features that we would love to be using.

Hey Jenn! When you create a segment or calculated metric within a Workspace project based on a VRS, you should get a pop-up like the following after you click 'save' in the builder. You would just check the box to include the new component in the VRS moving forward. Does this meet your needs?

Yes, this is a really big issue for anyone using a Virtual Report Suite to "curate" their components. If I create a new segment, not only do I need to do the standard sharing to make it accessible to my peers, I have to also go into the VRS editor and make sure that segment is on the "include" side. It seems I have to do this even if I DON'T want to share that segment and just use it myself within the VRS.