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SonikaDU
SonikaDU
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July 8, 2024
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Query: On Report Suite Data Purging

  • July 8, 2024
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Hello,

 

I have configured one of my Report Suite data with testing environment data. Which is now ongoing testing.

I would like to know if there is some way that I can purge the report suite current data. And start populating acceptance data in same report suite, to have valid data for acceptance testing.

 

Regards,

Sonika Dutta

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Jennifer_Dungan
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Jennifer_DunganCommunity Advisor and Adobe Champion
Community Advisor and Adobe Champion
July 8, 2024

You might be able to use the Data Repair API, but that comes with additional costs... it likely isn't worth that...

 

I've never purged data myself, I keep our dev/qa suite for testing data, and prod for fully tested / vetted releases... 

 

If garbage data does go into prod, I actually have set up my suites with a "Prod" physical suite, and a "Prod - Clean" virtual suite. Basically, I have a "clean" segment that will clean up / remove garbage data... all our reports are made using the Clean Virtual Suite (and since I have a multiple virtual suites to separate out our individual sites, each one of those also includes the "clean segment")

SonikaDU
SonikaDUAuthor
Level 2
July 8, 2024

Hi @jennifer_dungan Can you please explain how you have setup clean segment to clear up garbage data?

Jennifer_Dungan
Community Advisor and Adobe Champion
Jennifer_DunganCommunity Advisor and Adobe Champion
Community Advisor and Adobe Champion
July 8, 2024

Well the segment will have to be customized to your needs.. you know better what data you are trying to purge...

 

Let's do an easy example, let's say I have a prod site "www.domain.com" and a testing site "qa.domain.com"... and for some reason, I had traffic accidentally send from my test site into my prod suite.

 

I would create a simple segment of

 

Hit [

    Hit Container (Exclude) [

        URL contains qa.domain.com

    ]

]

 

 

While I wouldn't normally use an extra container here, this allows me to stack other logic blocks into my "clean" segment later as separate containers (basically I am planning for future expansion of my rules - while I hope not to have to use this often, I know that there will come a time that I will).

 

 

Then, I just make sure ALL my virtual report suites, as well as a new vrs specifically designed used only for clean data, use this segment.

 

So I would have VRSs for:

  • site a (segment for "site a", and segment for "clean")
  • site b (segment for "site b", and segment for "clean")
  • site c (segment for "site c", and segment for "clean")
  • mobile apps (segment for "mobile apps", and segment for "clean")
  • etc

 

then I would have another one which is basically just:

  • global suite clean (segment for "clean")

 

The hardest part of this is really just going back and changing all your existing reports to use the new clean vrs.

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