Segment condition for 'from this date; | Community
Skip to main content
SamMa10
Level 2
March 25, 2026
Solved

Segment condition for 'from this date;

  • March 25, 2026
  • 1 reply
  • 9 views

I’m trying to create a segment that has condition for ‘From this date’ but am struggling to find that.

 

Scenario: We capture the product a customer buys and have a custom metric that measures the % of visits that upgraded this product in session. We’ve extended this product tracking to another brand so want to add to the same metric, however existing sales are bringing this down.

 

Metric is:

Brand has upgrade option (Customer Upgraded (Orders) / Orders )

Brand A has had product tracking all year, Brand B only had product tracking added this week but had order tracking all year.

 

I need to add a date measure for Brand B with in my ‘Brand has upgrade option’ segment so the existing orders don’t dilute my metric before the tracking was added….

Best answer by Jennifer_Dungan

Hi ​@SamMa10,

 

Are you trying to do this in AA or CJA?

 

In AA, there is no “from this date”… but you can “fake it”… I literally did this trick a few days ago…

 

I needed to create a “proxy” tracker for something that happened before the tracking was added to the site (and add it to the correct tracking) to get data for all of last year. But also, to only start it from the time the feature was added to the site.

 

My “proxy” was using Page Views for a subset of pages (where the item was displayed)… so I had to isolate the time before the real tracking occurred, so that it wasn’t “double tracking” with the real metric.

 

I created a container in my segment and used a combination of adhoc segments for “Year = 2025” and “Day of Year >= 150” and “Day of Year <= 176” then paired it with “Page Views” and my “Page Sub-Set Segment”

 

While you could do something similar in CJA, there may be more “date math” options available to you.

1 reply

Jennifer_Dungan
Community Advisor and Adobe Champion
Jennifer_DunganCommunity Advisor and Adobe ChampionAccepted solution
Community Advisor and Adobe Champion
March 25, 2026

Hi ​@SamMa10,

 

Are you trying to do this in AA or CJA?

 

In AA, there is no “from this date”… but you can “fake it”… I literally did this trick a few days ago…

 

I needed to create a “proxy” tracker for something that happened before the tracking was added to the site (and add it to the correct tracking) to get data for all of last year. But also, to only start it from the time the feature was added to the site.

 

My “proxy” was using Page Views for a subset of pages (where the item was displayed)… so I had to isolate the time before the real tracking occurred, so that it wasn’t “double tracking” with the real metric.

 

I created a container in my segment and used a combination of adhoc segments for “Year = 2025” and “Day of Year >= 150” and “Day of Year <= 176” then paired it with “Page Views” and my “Page Sub-Set Segment”

 

While you could do something similar in CJA, there may be more “date math” options available to you.

Jennifer_Dungan
Community Advisor and Adobe Champion
Community Advisor and Adobe Champion
March 25, 2026

My rule is based on the fact that I only had about a month of data… if you need to accomodate for all years going forward, you will probably have to change this up a bit… but it should be doable with some creative setup… you might have to do two containers… one for the year where it started (i.e.
“Year = 2026 AND Day of Year >=x” and a second container for “Year >= 2027”)

SamMa10
SamMa10Author
Level 2
March 25, 2026

It’s within AA, that does explain why I couldn’t find it if it doesn’t exist though.

 

Really good idea to fake it like that. Data retention is 25 months on my account so I could just do an exclude for Year 2024,2025 and day of year is less for this.

 

Thank you so much!