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I always have a hard time explaining what "Instances" is when talking Referring Domains - and why this numbers adds up to more than the Total Visits count. Please make "Visits" available as a metric for Referring Domains.

I reported this as a bug, but I was told by ClientCare that "this is working as was designed". I hope a post here in Idea Exchange could change that. Today: There are an unmotivated space before the text rows are shown in the tables in the dashboard reportlets making them look really bad (and I have a hard time explaing for end users why the reports do not use the space that are really there). The text should of course be left lined and not be placed somewhere in the middle.As it is now we need to use large instead of medium sized reportlets and medium instead of small reportlets to be able to see the text. Idea: All rows in all tables in reportlets should be left lined.

I know there have been some posts on Targets, but this one is to add a few ideas that I don't believe have been coverered: I wish in the Target creation screen, once you have chosen the metric (or metric and specific value pair), SiteCatalyst could show you what the values have been for the past day/week/month (depending upon what you have selected as your timeframe.  Without this, you have to know what your numbers have been...I wish there was a way to have an auto-target in which you enter the first value and an expected time period increase % (i.e. 2%) and then have SIteCatalyst auto-fill the rest of the target values.Ability to download existing Targets in Excel to help see the correct way to fill out the Excel template (like you can in SAINT).

On several occassions, you want Data Warehouse report which have particular value(s) of certain variable(s) only. But the interface allows only to select all values of the variable or none at all. If the query could have been created more like SQL queries where you could, for eg. Select Gender, AgeWhere Campaign variable = "Valentines email blast" AND Product = "Roses" While in SiteCatalyst we have the ability  to do simple stuff like this through Segment but it is an overkill since I just want only 'Gender' and 'Age' values and not all other reports. And Discover is costly  !! Ofcourse Group by etc. would be great as well if you have not used SAINT. I suppose the resulting reports would be created much faster as well?

I often come across situations where I want to match one variable or classification with another in a subrelation report. For example,Billing City = Departure City (to understand how often people buy tickets for flights departing from their own city)Gender = Product:Gender (to understand if the customer specified gender is same as what the product was targeted to)Campaign: Target category = Product: Product category (Did visitor buy the same product category for which the campaign was targeted)(Note - I am using ' : ' to denote classifications here)

One of the most important insight that all CMOs (and thus analysts) need is the RoI of each of the acquisition sources. With multiple campaigns and SEO running simultaneously, true understanding of RoI is dependent on understanding the overlap amongst these sources. The first-click, last click and linear success event attributions are far too elementary to bring out any insight about overlaps. Also, Unified Sources DB Vista and cross-visitation (campaign stacking) plugin have significant limitations (it is their classifications that the pathing/overlap is needed on and not the tracking codes themselves) leaving a lot to be desired. I have a couple of visualizations that I can imagine: 1. Venn diagam on number of visitors showing intersections of different sources that we select. 2. Pivot table view with both axes showing acquisition sources and common visitors shown on each intersections 3. Pathing or hierarchy view where both visitors and success events are shown at each step. For exa

I created two report suites today, and in so doing, I noticed a behavior that I suspect is wrong and unintentional.The first report suite was the development report suite, for which I entered in the "Report Suite Id" field "[reportsuitedev]". I configured it, and hit submit.The page reloaded with the information I'd entered. I needed to create a duplicate, so I went ahead and removed the "dev" from the report suite ID and name, changed the base URL, and hit submit again -and realized too late that instead of loading "[reportsuitedev]" into the field after I created the first report suite, the admin console appended the standard prefix and loaded "[compnyreportsuitedev]." Therefore, the production report suite's ID is [compnycompnyreportsuitedev].Given that report suite IDs are permanent and cannot be changed, and report suites cannot be deleted and recreated, I think this is the worst possible behavior for this text box. I have done this in the past (thankfully in the opposite order, s

Currently: Reportlets delete trends you have added to Reports based on Reportlet size (i.e. Max Trends Large = 5, Medium = 3, Small = 1) and do so without any options on our part.  For example looking at below there are actually 6 Trends gaphed in the Report and Visits is not graphed, but only four trends shown in the Reportlet with two deleted, etc. Suggestions: The users must have the ability do decide What is important and How they want to present information in their reporting.  If the core issue is the space needed for the data columns then consider the following:Let the user pick which is more important  Show All Trends  or  Show All DataIf Details rows are not selected then default to Show All Trends and vice versaWrap text in columns for both the Trend names (so they are not truncated and unreadable - See Red Box in pic) and values i.e. put volumes on top row, %'s on next row, think some have already suggested let us turn of the secondary value (i.e. %'s if showing volumes)We c

Provide a toggle for click map to show the on-click values. This would function as onclick debugger. It is both a QA tool and conveniently shows the values for the link IDs we need to track. Currently, we have built our own tool (see image below) to see the on click values in a mouse over. Our people responsible for tracking go to the page to find what links are there and get the values, which are tracked in Omniture. 

Restore the summary reportlet item in dashboards. This provided a benchmark for the time period.It also allowed the ability to get a line item of the value, when those values are truncated in the detail reportlet.

Because a user wouldn't quite care if it was 32nd or 33rd visit.  I ended up spending an eVar copying the Visit Number variable into it and then classifying.

It would be great if Omniture could have the ability for ASI slots to copy the parent report suites IP address filtering setting as well as the SAINT mapping classification setting.

Existing Functionality: Currently users must go to the Metric Selector window to add/remove metrics by clicking on the 'Showing' link on the report.Idea: Provide users the ability to add/remove metrics from the report details page, without having to go to the Metric Selector window.  There are several ways of doing this via a dynamic reporting interface, however; the attached is an example of how it might integrate into the existing interface. In this example, there would be a flyout menu to be able to select metrics to add to the report. The user could also remove existing metrics by clicking the remove ('X') icon in the 'Showing' list.Source image file 21612 not available

s.linkName is great for changing how a link is displayed in SC, but it's limited to 100 chars and not clickable. The link URL is not changable but has a limit of 255 chars.Please allow to specify s.linkURL (pev1) in the javascript, as we can specify s.linkName (pev2) for automatic link-tracking and using s_doPlugins.

Very often it makes sense to compare the last week with 'moving average of previous 'n' weeks'. Either the date range selection should allow us to select more than two date ranges so that one can see last three-four weeks in columns and compare manually or it should allow to change the aggregator (sum) function applied on the calendar range to be changed to average function.

Currently there are still some reports that can not be added to Dashboards e.g. Next Page Flows, Page Summary Flows, etc.  If we can pull it in Site Catalyst we should be able to Dashboard it. See Also: IDEA: Site Catalyst and Test & Target on same Dashboards

Add the ability to set Targets equal to a Calculated Metric instead of simple static values that currently have to entered by hand for each day (See below).  This would let us set Targets based on prior periods, past results +/- % of growth, etc.  Obviously would make Targets much more flexible, and business effective. Doing this would largely depend on, or be far more useful when IDEA: Calculated Metrics using eVars made available too. 

Once I've set up a single classification for some variable in the Admin UI, I should be able to just add a new column in my SAINT template to introduce any new classifications thereafter. I should not have to go back into the Admin/suite/classifications UI to simply adda  new entry every time.

I would like to ave the option of adding certain plug-ins automatically in the s_code.js from the admin console. I would like to see a list of the plug-ins and then have a checkbox to automatically add the code into the JS file, so when I download the JS file the plug-in code will already be in there and all I would have to do is modify the plug-in to the correct variable number.

In some cases your s_code is loaded but you don't want to fire any tracking. Would be beneficial to have a s.disableTracking=true; parameter to disable any tracking to go out.While you would be able to put the s.t() call into an if-statement you would also need to turn of any auto-tracking and catch all s.tl()-calls and abort them. A sample case:if you don't care about saved copies of your site:if (location.protocol=='file:') { s.disableTracking=true; }would do the trick.Currently it's a lot more code.

Could be helpful if we have like a site metrics report that contains 2 or more different metrics that contains data of all over the site. An example: We have the number of visits and some custom event per hour/day/week/month, etc.

Allow admins to upload arbitrary SAINT files to a single FTP account.If you have 200 report suites with different campaign files, you would need to create 200 FTP accounts to upload to. Just make a predefined file naming and accept these files in a single account.e.g. RSID_variable_overwriteconflicts_exportafterimport.tab, so mysuite1_v0_true_true.tab would classify campaigns in mysuite1 and mysuite2_v0_true_false.tab would classify the campaigns in mysuite2.

I set text search based alerts on an hourly basis, but if I set the alert every hour, then I'll get an email every hour regardless of whether the criteria was met.  All I really want is to see the alert if it comes back with something.   We should have the option to check a box that says "check here if you do not want to get an hourly report, if there is No Data"

Need the ability to set a custom limit on the maxium amount of CSV rows in a Data Warehouse report  ex: Report kicked back contains 100,000 rows of data, default excel can only save half of this,  would like to be able to run large request and have the ability to have the file seperated into seperate files if it exceeds the custom row limitation

It would be nice if this was a built in to the standard SiteCatalyst setup instead of being an extra feature. Being able to access this would help with having more creative uses of the tools. -Rudi