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MitchellTe1
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February 26, 2026
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Adobe Report Builder dependent data block

Hello AA / ARB Community - are Dependent Data Blocks not a thing in the new Adobe Report Builder?  I can only find very brief info about dependent data blocks for Legacy Report Builder.  Is there a new way to do this, or some new vocabulary around it?

 

Thanks for reading and for any ideas.

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Jennifer_Dungan
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Adobe Champion and Community Advisor
February 26, 2026

Hmm that’s a good question ​@MitchellTe1 

 

I had never used Dependent Data Blocks in the Legacy Report (I didn’t even know they were a thing until today….).

 

I haven’t seen anything like that… but the new Report Builder has a lot more controls, and a lot better way to pull multiple dimensions (and filter at different levels - the entire request, at the dimension level, and even at each individual metric level), so depending on what you are trying to do, it might be possible to do a different way that doesn’t require creating a dependency??

 

Maybe if you can explain what you are trying to do, we can figure out a solution together?

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Jennifer_Dungan
Adobe Champion and Community Advisor
Jennifer_DunganAdobe Champion and Community AdvisorAccepted solution
Adobe Champion and Community Advisor
February 26, 2026

Hmm that’s a good question ​@MitchellTe1 

 

I had never used Dependent Data Blocks in the Legacy Report (I didn’t even know they were a thing until today….).

 

I haven’t seen anything like that… but the new Report Builder has a lot more controls, and a lot better way to pull multiple dimensions (and filter at different levels - the entire request, at the dimension level, and even at each individual metric level), so depending on what you are trying to do, it might be possible to do a different way that doesn’t require creating a dependency??

 

Maybe if you can explain what you are trying to do, we can figure out a solution together?

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MitchellTe1
Level 2
March 26, 2026

Delayed reply Jennifer, thanks for responding to my post.

 

The “dependent data blocks” concept may have been more common with the legacy ARB. We found a way to join the data of two seperate data blocks into a single table with a little Excel magic. Still, if Dependent Data Blocks is a “thing”, I’d love to learn more about it. 

 

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Jennifer_Dungan
Adobe Champion and Community Advisor
Adobe Champion and Community Advisor
March 27, 2026

Well if you post an Idea with details with how it should work, I will definitely give you an upvote.

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