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lojmann_lego
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August 16, 2013
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Understand where segments and calculated metrics are used – to clean up without breaking anything

  • August 16, 2013
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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

13 replies

Level 2
August 26, 2019

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

Level 2
January 5, 2021

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.

August 11, 2021

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