Understand where segments and calculated metrics are used – to clean up without breaking anything

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August 16, 2013
13 replies
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A nice feature to get would be to be able to run a report showing me where a specific calculated metric or segments is used, in order to make it easy to clean up and streamline calculated metrics and segments across all suites, users, reports, dashboards etc…

It might be possible to get an overview over Discover Projects, dashboards, bookmarks and scheduled reports using specific segments and calculated metrics across all Adobe Marketing Cloud products.
More difficult to find may be non-scheduled Excel Client or Report Builder reports using any of those and in case those can’t be found (maybe by looking at what has been refreshed last 3 months etc.) a better warning in those reports telling the user that a specific segment or calculated metric has been removed/replaced by something else.

This feature would make administrating large enterprise accounts way easier that it is today. This will help us maintain a high reporting quality by users not knowing everything going on with the tool and our implementation.

Best Regards,

/Løjmann

Analytics

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Katie_Durkin

New Participant

This is much needed functionality!

In the meantime, there is a product out already out there (but it should be standard admin functionality within Adobe Analytics): https://datacroft.de/en/component-manager/

It is described in these blog posts:

https://lukas-oldenburg.medium.com/find-and-delete-100s-of-unused-adobe-analytics-segments-with-a-few-clicks-video-18762313826a

https://lukas-oldenburg.medium.com/google-sheets-bulk-component-editor-for-adobe-analytics-video-ddf726ec2ac

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ctro

New Participant

I know this is an old thread, but curious if this was ever implemented and if so, where? Would still be a great feature and make it easier to bulk delete old segments.

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kamaljeetk69606

New Participant

It should have been by now. This is must needed feature which allows makes user aware before deleting a segment

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whatever_you_want

New Participant

This is common sense. Admin's are hamstrung without this ability.

Please make-it so.

bryanth35874492

New Participant

Yes please!

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JenLa5

Employee

This is something we are reviewing, and considering addressing in Component managers.

In the meantime, you can delete segments/calculated metrics and reports won't break. We soft-delete things on our side, meaning we still apply them in reports where they are used, even if you've deleted them. We did this so as not to break anything.

We also have a recommended process for deleting components as well: https://adobe.ly/2MUfxyW

alessandrov9274

New Participant

This would be such a nice feature! We have many redundant segments and calculated metric, for historic reasons... But nobody is eager to break anything so they are left there. A cleanup is not possible and it is getting messier...