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    <title>topic The Power of Dropdown Filters and Dimension Breakdowns in Adobe Analytics in Adobe Analytics Discussions</title>
    <link>https://experienceleaguecommunities.adobe.com/t5/adobe-analytics-discussions/the-power-of-dropdown-filters-and-dimension-breakdowns-in-adobe/m-p/434680#M2885</link>
    <description>&lt;P&gt;&lt;SPAN&gt;Slicing, dicing,&amp;nbsp;and&amp;nbsp;filtering your&amp;nbsp;data has never been easier.&amp;nbsp;There are multiple ways&amp;nbsp;to&amp;nbsp;target&amp;nbsp;and drill down&amp;nbsp;to your desired data&amp;nbsp;in Analysis&amp;nbsp;Workspace.&amp;nbsp;Filters and&amp;nbsp;quick&amp;nbsp;segments&amp;nbsp;in&amp;nbsp;Workspace&amp;nbsp;panels&amp;nbsp;easily limit data in all reports and visualizations while&amp;nbsp;dimension&amp;nbsp;breakdowns&amp;nbsp;add details to specific reports.&amp;nbsp;Add as many filters, segments,&amp;nbsp;and breakdowns as you want and mix and match to get the results you need.&amp;nbsp;Everything is drag and drop&amp;nbsp;which adds to the ease of use.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;SPAN&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;SPAN&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;STRONG&gt;&lt;SPAN&gt;Used to segmentation dropdown in other Analytics platforms? Try out&amp;nbsp;dropdown&amp;nbsp;filters and&amp;nbsp;quick&amp;nbsp;segments.&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/STRONG&gt;&lt;SPAN&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;SPAN&gt;Dropdown filters are a powerful and flexible tool to segment and filter and can be used in conjunction&amp;nbsp;with&amp;nbsp;quick&amp;nbsp;segments to build reports with focused data.&amp;nbsp;Add&amp;nbsp;dropdown filters&amp;nbsp;for device type, marketing channels, audiences&amp;nbsp;or anything else that you need or&amp;nbsp;all of&amp;nbsp;the above.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;SPAN&gt;Below&amp;nbsp;are a few things to think about when using dropdown filters&amp;nbsp;as well as some ways&amp;nbsp;to test&amp;nbsp;them out&amp;nbsp;in your own Workspace:&amp;nbsp;&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;SPAN&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;UL&gt;&lt;LI&gt;&lt;SPAN&gt;Dropdown&amp;nbsp;filters and&amp;nbsp;quick segments are at the&amp;nbsp;panel&amp;nbsp;level which means they will be applied to all tables/visualizations in the panel.&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;SPAN&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/LI&gt;&lt;LI&gt;&lt;SPAN&gt;You can have multiple&amp;nbsp;dropdown&amp;nbsp;filters/quick&amp;nbsp;segments in each panel.&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;SPAN&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/LI&gt;&lt;/UL&gt;&lt;UL&gt;&lt;LI&gt;&lt;SPAN&gt;Each&amp;nbsp;dropdown&amp;nbsp;filter can&amp;nbsp;be&amp;nbsp;built from a single dimension (eg, site section, marketing channel). Simply select multiple values of a dimension from the dimension item list, hold the shift key, and drag&amp;nbsp;them&amp;nbsp;into&amp;nbsp;the panel drop zone&amp;nbsp;at the top of the panel.&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;SPAN&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/LI&gt;&lt;LI&gt;&lt;SPAN&gt;Dimensions,&amp;nbsp;segments and even&amp;nbsp;date&amp;nbsp;ranges can be used in&amp;nbsp;dropdown&amp;nbsp;filters.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;SPAN&gt;It is good to keep in mind that&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;SPAN&gt;&amp;nbsp;date&amp;nbsp;ranges in a&amp;nbsp;dropdown&amp;nbsp;filter will overwrite the panel date range from the top right corner.&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;SPAN&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/LI&gt;&lt;LI&gt;&lt;SPAN&gt;Don’t forget to edit the&amp;nbsp;dropdown&amp;nbsp;labels to emphasize these are interactive elements!&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;SPAN&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/LI&gt;&lt;LI&gt;&lt;SPAN&gt;If you have a static value to filter&amp;nbsp;your&amp;nbsp;data, click on the&amp;nbsp;filter icon in the&amp;nbsp;&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;SPAN&gt;panel&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;SPAN&gt;&amp;nbsp;drop&amp;nbsp;zone to create a&amp;nbsp;&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;I&gt;&lt;SPAN&gt;quick&amp;nbsp;segment&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/I&gt;&lt;SPAN&gt;&amp;nbsp;that will always be applied to the panel.&amp;nbsp;It is important to note that quick&amp;nbsp;segments will not be saved as a reusable segment (unless you&amp;nbsp;select&amp;nbsp;&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;SPAN&gt;the make available to all projects box&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;SPAN&gt;).&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;SPAN&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/LI&gt;&lt;/UL&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;SPAN&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;SPAN&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;SPAN&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;span class="lia-inline-image-display-wrapper lia-image-align-inline" image-alt="gmhrb_0-1639576436731.png" style="width: 739px;"&gt;&lt;img src="https://experienceleaguecommunities.adobe.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/37399i0C3870A90D6B443C/image-dimensions/739x200/is-moderation-mode/true?v=v2" width="739" height="200" role="button" title="gmhrb_0-1639576436731.png" alt="gmhrb_0-1639576436731.png" /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;SPAN&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;SPAN&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;SPAN&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;STRONG&gt;&lt;SPAN&gt;Utilize&amp;nbsp;Freeform tables to breakdown dimensions in Adobe Analytics&amp;nbsp;&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/STRONG&gt;&lt;SPAN&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;SPAN&gt;Great News! Adobe allows unlimited breakdowns in a Freeform table. All Freeform tables are both pivot and/or crosstab tables so you can break down data in multiple ways. Here are three ways to add breakdowns in a freeform table: Drag breakdown dimensions into&amp;nbsp;a&amp;nbsp;table from the left rail, right-click on values already in the table and select&amp;nbsp;&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;I&gt;&lt;SPAN&gt;Breakdown&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/I&gt;&lt;SPAN&gt;&amp;nbsp;(right-click&amp;nbsp;magic is everywhere in Adobe!) or&amp;nbsp;use the&amp;nbsp;table&amp;nbsp;builder to create the breakdowns.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;SPAN&gt;You can&amp;nbsp;choose&amp;nbsp;to use&amp;nbsp;all values or select specific values&amp;nbsp;in a breakdown&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;SPAN&gt;. You can also add filters to your breakdown items to limit data and/or sort breakdown items by metric values.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;SPAN&gt;Find more details around each method below&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;SPAN&gt;:&amp;nbsp;&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;SPAN&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;UL&gt;&lt;LI&gt;&lt;SPAN&gt;Drag and&amp;nbsp;drop from&amp;nbsp;the&amp;nbsp;left&amp;nbsp;rail&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;SPAN&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;UL&gt;&lt;LI&gt;&lt;SPAN&gt;Drag and&amp;nbsp;drop&amp;nbsp;dimension names from the left rail to breakdown by all values&amp;nbsp;(make sure that you see&amp;nbsp;&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;I&gt;&lt;SPAN&gt;Breakdown&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/I&gt;&lt;SPAN&gt;&amp;nbsp;in the drop zone guide instead of&amp;nbsp;&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;I&gt;&lt;SPAN&gt;Replace&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/I&gt;&lt;SPAN&gt;!).&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;SPAN&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/LI&gt;&lt;LI&gt;&lt;SPAN&gt;To breakdown more than one row, select&amp;nbsp;the&amp;nbsp;rows&amp;nbsp;you would like&amp;nbsp;to breakdown and then&amp;nbsp;&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;SPAN&gt;drag and&amp;nbsp;drop the dimension&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;SPAN&gt;.&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;SPAN&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/LI&gt;&lt;LI&gt;&lt;SPAN&gt;To breakdown by specific values, go to&amp;nbsp;the&amp;nbsp;dimension item list and select items and drag to breakdown rows.&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;SPAN&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/LI&gt;&lt;LI&gt;&lt;SPAN&gt;Drag, drop,&amp;nbsp;and&amp;nbsp;repeat&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;SPAN&gt;&amp;nbsp;until you have the&amp;nbsp;breakdowns&amp;nbsp;you want.&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;SPAN&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/LI&gt;&lt;LI&gt;&lt;SPAN&gt;Fun Fact – Did you know that you can just start dragging from the left rail without creating a freeform table when you create a new panel?&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;SPAN&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/LI&gt;&lt;/UL&gt;&lt;/LI&gt;&lt;LI&gt;&lt;SPAN&gt;Right-click method&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;SPAN&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;UL&gt;&lt;LI&gt;&lt;SPAN&gt;You can only breakdown by all dimension values&amp;nbsp;&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;SPAN&gt;when using this method.&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;SPAN&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/LI&gt;&lt;LI&gt;&lt;SPAN&gt;Right-click and select&amp;nbsp;breakdown and then select&amp;nbsp;dimensions,&amp;nbsp;segments or&amp;nbsp;date&amp;nbsp;range.&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;SPAN&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/LI&gt;&lt;LI&gt;&lt;SPAN&gt;Select&amp;nbsp;the&amp;nbsp;appropriate value with&amp;nbsp;the&amp;nbsp;selected category (use&amp;nbsp;the&amp;nbsp;search function to quickly find what you are looking for) and then click on&amp;nbsp;that&amp;nbsp;value.&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;SPAN&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/LI&gt;&lt;LI&gt;&lt;SPAN&gt;Using&amp;nbsp;table&amp;nbsp;builder will only break&amp;nbsp;down the top five values of the&amp;nbsp;top-level&amp;nbsp;dimension.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;SPAN&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/LI&gt;&lt;LI&gt;&lt;SPAN&gt;Start&amp;nbsp;a new Freeform&amp;nbsp;table.&amp;nbsp;Click on&amp;nbsp;“&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;I&gt;&lt;SPAN&gt;Enable&amp;nbsp;table&amp;nbsp;builder”&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/I&gt;&lt;SPAN&gt;.&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;SPAN&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/LI&gt;&lt;LI&gt;&lt;SPAN&gt;Start dragging dimensions/segments from left rail to create the different breakdown levels and add metric(s).&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;SPAN&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/LI&gt;&lt;/UL&gt;&lt;/LI&gt;&lt;LI&gt;&lt;SPAN&gt;Don’t forget you can also use breakdowns as a crosstab and drag into columns instead of rows to easily&amp;nbsp;see&amp;nbsp;the same breakout across multiple rows.&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;SPAN&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;UL&gt;&lt;LI&gt;&lt;SPAN&gt;Crosstab breakouts work best with limited value dimensions in the columns to keep the data readable (such as Device Type, Marketing Channels).&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;SPAN&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/LI&gt;&lt;LI&gt;&lt;SPAN&gt;Stacking dimension values can act like filters to further segment data (without having to make segments).&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;SPAN&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/LI&gt;&lt;LI&gt;&lt;SPAN&gt;Combine&amp;nbsp;crosstab and&amp;nbsp;row&amp;nbsp;breakdowns for all the data!&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;SPAN&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/LI&gt;&lt;/UL&gt;&lt;/LI&gt;&lt;/UL&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;SPAN&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;span class="lia-inline-image-display-wrapper lia-image-align-inline" image-alt="gmhrb_1-1639576436733.png" style="width: 597px;"&gt;&lt;img src="https://experienceleaguecommunities.adobe.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/37400i63A20A8C1B15A72E/image-dimensions/597x285/is-moderation-mode/true?v=v2" width="597" height="285" role="button" title="gmhrb_1-1639576436733.png" alt="gmhrb_1-1639576436733.png" /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;STRONG&gt;&lt;SPAN&gt;Summary:&amp;nbsp;&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/STRONG&gt;&lt;SPAN&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;SPAN&gt;Adding&amp;nbsp;dropdown&amp;nbsp;filters and&amp;nbsp;breakdowns can&amp;nbsp;help&amp;nbsp;simplify your reporting by allowing the same tables/visualizations&amp;nbsp;to be used for multiple teams.&amp;nbsp;Business&amp;nbsp;owners can simply apply the relevant filters to see what they need to see instead of making&amp;nbsp;the same report for five different tactic owners – just make one with a&amp;nbsp;dropdown&amp;nbsp;filter.&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;Breakdowns allow you to see the details and the summary information in the one report which can reduce the number of&amp;nbsp;reports/Workspaces&amp;nbsp;that you and your teams&amp;nbsp;have to&amp;nbsp;navigate.&amp;nbsp;Go&amp;nbsp;forth and filter (or breakdown your dimensions)!&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;SPAN&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/P&gt;</description>
    <pubDate>Wed, 15 Dec 2021 13:58:23 GMT</pubDate>
    <dc:creator>gm-hrb</dc:creator>
    <dc:date>2021-12-15T13:58:23Z</dc:date>
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      <title>The Power of Dropdown Filters and Dimension Breakdowns in Adobe Analytics</title>
      <link>https://experienceleaguecommunities.adobe.com/t5/adobe-analytics-discussions/the-power-of-dropdown-filters-and-dimension-breakdowns-in-adobe/m-p/434680#M2885</link>
      <description>&lt;P&gt;&lt;SPAN&gt;Slicing, dicing,&amp;nbsp;and&amp;nbsp;filtering your&amp;nbsp;data has never been easier.&amp;nbsp;There are multiple ways&amp;nbsp;to&amp;nbsp;target&amp;nbsp;and drill down&amp;nbsp;to your desired data&amp;nbsp;in Analysis&amp;nbsp;Workspace.&amp;nbsp;Filters and&amp;nbsp;quick&amp;nbsp;segments&amp;nbsp;in&amp;nbsp;Workspace&amp;nbsp;panels&amp;nbsp;easily limit data in all reports and visualizations while&amp;nbsp;dimension&amp;nbsp;breakdowns&amp;nbsp;add details to specific reports.&amp;nbsp;Add as many filters, segments,&amp;nbsp;and breakdowns as you want and mix and match to get the results you need.&amp;nbsp;Everything is drag and drop&amp;nbsp;which adds to the ease of use.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;SPAN&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;SPAN&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;STRONG&gt;&lt;SPAN&gt;Used to segmentation dropdown in other Analytics platforms? Try out&amp;nbsp;dropdown&amp;nbsp;filters and&amp;nbsp;quick&amp;nbsp;segments.&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/STRONG&gt;&lt;SPAN&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;SPAN&gt;Dropdown filters are a powerful and flexible tool to segment and filter and can be used in conjunction&amp;nbsp;with&amp;nbsp;quick&amp;nbsp;segments to build reports with focused data.&amp;nbsp;Add&amp;nbsp;dropdown filters&amp;nbsp;for device type, marketing channels, audiences&amp;nbsp;or anything else that you need or&amp;nbsp;all of&amp;nbsp;the above.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;SPAN&gt;Below&amp;nbsp;are a few things to think about when using dropdown filters&amp;nbsp;as well as some ways&amp;nbsp;to test&amp;nbsp;them out&amp;nbsp;in your own Workspace:&amp;nbsp;&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;SPAN&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;UL&gt;&lt;LI&gt;&lt;SPAN&gt;Dropdown&amp;nbsp;filters and&amp;nbsp;quick segments are at the&amp;nbsp;panel&amp;nbsp;level which means they will be applied to all tables/visualizations in the panel.&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;SPAN&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/LI&gt;&lt;LI&gt;&lt;SPAN&gt;You can have multiple&amp;nbsp;dropdown&amp;nbsp;filters/quick&amp;nbsp;segments in each panel.&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;SPAN&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/LI&gt;&lt;/UL&gt;&lt;UL&gt;&lt;LI&gt;&lt;SPAN&gt;Each&amp;nbsp;dropdown&amp;nbsp;filter can&amp;nbsp;be&amp;nbsp;built from a single dimension (eg, site section, marketing channel). Simply select multiple values of a dimension from the dimension item list, hold the shift key, and drag&amp;nbsp;them&amp;nbsp;into&amp;nbsp;the panel drop zone&amp;nbsp;at the top of the panel.&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;SPAN&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/LI&gt;&lt;LI&gt;&lt;SPAN&gt;Dimensions,&amp;nbsp;segments and even&amp;nbsp;date&amp;nbsp;ranges can be used in&amp;nbsp;dropdown&amp;nbsp;filters.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;SPAN&gt;It is good to keep in mind that&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;SPAN&gt;&amp;nbsp;date&amp;nbsp;ranges in a&amp;nbsp;dropdown&amp;nbsp;filter will overwrite the panel date range from the top right corner.&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;SPAN&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/LI&gt;&lt;LI&gt;&lt;SPAN&gt;Don’t forget to edit the&amp;nbsp;dropdown&amp;nbsp;labels to emphasize these are interactive elements!&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;SPAN&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/LI&gt;&lt;LI&gt;&lt;SPAN&gt;If you have a static value to filter&amp;nbsp;your&amp;nbsp;data, click on the&amp;nbsp;filter icon in the&amp;nbsp;&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;SPAN&gt;panel&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;SPAN&gt;&amp;nbsp;drop&amp;nbsp;zone to create a&amp;nbsp;&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;I&gt;&lt;SPAN&gt;quick&amp;nbsp;segment&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/I&gt;&lt;SPAN&gt;&amp;nbsp;that will always be applied to the panel.&amp;nbsp;It is important to note that quick&amp;nbsp;segments will not be saved as a reusable segment (unless you&amp;nbsp;select&amp;nbsp;&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;SPAN&gt;the make available to all projects box&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;SPAN&gt;).&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;SPAN&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/LI&gt;&lt;/UL&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;SPAN&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;SPAN&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;SPAN&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;span class="lia-inline-image-display-wrapper lia-image-align-inline" image-alt="gmhrb_0-1639576436731.png" style="width: 739px;"&gt;&lt;img src="https://experienceleaguecommunities.adobe.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/37399i0C3870A90D6B443C/image-dimensions/739x200/is-moderation-mode/true?v=v2" width="739" height="200" role="button" title="gmhrb_0-1639576436731.png" alt="gmhrb_0-1639576436731.png" /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;SPAN&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;SPAN&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;SPAN&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;STRONG&gt;&lt;SPAN&gt;Utilize&amp;nbsp;Freeform tables to breakdown dimensions in Adobe Analytics&amp;nbsp;&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/STRONG&gt;&lt;SPAN&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;SPAN&gt;Great News! Adobe allows unlimited breakdowns in a Freeform table. All Freeform tables are both pivot and/or crosstab tables so you can break down data in multiple ways. Here are three ways to add breakdowns in a freeform table: Drag breakdown dimensions into&amp;nbsp;a&amp;nbsp;table from the left rail, right-click on values already in the table and select&amp;nbsp;&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;I&gt;&lt;SPAN&gt;Breakdown&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/I&gt;&lt;SPAN&gt;&amp;nbsp;(right-click&amp;nbsp;magic is everywhere in Adobe!) or&amp;nbsp;use the&amp;nbsp;table&amp;nbsp;builder to create the breakdowns.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;SPAN&gt;You can&amp;nbsp;choose&amp;nbsp;to use&amp;nbsp;all values or select specific values&amp;nbsp;in a breakdown&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;SPAN&gt;. You can also add filters to your breakdown items to limit data and/or sort breakdown items by metric values.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;SPAN&gt;Find more details around each method below&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;SPAN&gt;:&amp;nbsp;&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;SPAN&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;UL&gt;&lt;LI&gt;&lt;SPAN&gt;Drag and&amp;nbsp;drop from&amp;nbsp;the&amp;nbsp;left&amp;nbsp;rail&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;SPAN&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;UL&gt;&lt;LI&gt;&lt;SPAN&gt;Drag and&amp;nbsp;drop&amp;nbsp;dimension names from the left rail to breakdown by all values&amp;nbsp;(make sure that you see&amp;nbsp;&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;I&gt;&lt;SPAN&gt;Breakdown&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/I&gt;&lt;SPAN&gt;&amp;nbsp;in the drop zone guide instead of&amp;nbsp;&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;I&gt;&lt;SPAN&gt;Replace&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/I&gt;&lt;SPAN&gt;!).&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;SPAN&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/LI&gt;&lt;LI&gt;&lt;SPAN&gt;To breakdown more than one row, select&amp;nbsp;the&amp;nbsp;rows&amp;nbsp;you would like&amp;nbsp;to breakdown and then&amp;nbsp;&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;SPAN&gt;drag and&amp;nbsp;drop the dimension&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;SPAN&gt;.&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;SPAN&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/LI&gt;&lt;LI&gt;&lt;SPAN&gt;To breakdown by specific values, go to&amp;nbsp;the&amp;nbsp;dimension item list and select items and drag to breakdown rows.&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;SPAN&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/LI&gt;&lt;LI&gt;&lt;SPAN&gt;Drag, drop,&amp;nbsp;and&amp;nbsp;repeat&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;SPAN&gt;&amp;nbsp;until you have the&amp;nbsp;breakdowns&amp;nbsp;you want.&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;SPAN&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/LI&gt;&lt;LI&gt;&lt;SPAN&gt;Fun Fact – Did you know that you can just start dragging from the left rail without creating a freeform table when you create a new panel?&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;SPAN&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/LI&gt;&lt;/UL&gt;&lt;/LI&gt;&lt;LI&gt;&lt;SPAN&gt;Right-click method&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;SPAN&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;UL&gt;&lt;LI&gt;&lt;SPAN&gt;You can only breakdown by all dimension values&amp;nbsp;&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;SPAN&gt;when using this method.&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;SPAN&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/LI&gt;&lt;LI&gt;&lt;SPAN&gt;Right-click and select&amp;nbsp;breakdown and then select&amp;nbsp;dimensions,&amp;nbsp;segments or&amp;nbsp;date&amp;nbsp;range.&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;SPAN&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/LI&gt;&lt;LI&gt;&lt;SPAN&gt;Select&amp;nbsp;the&amp;nbsp;appropriate value with&amp;nbsp;the&amp;nbsp;selected category (use&amp;nbsp;the&amp;nbsp;search function to quickly find what you are looking for) and then click on&amp;nbsp;that&amp;nbsp;value.&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;SPAN&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/LI&gt;&lt;LI&gt;&lt;SPAN&gt;Using&amp;nbsp;table&amp;nbsp;builder will only break&amp;nbsp;down the top five values of the&amp;nbsp;top-level&amp;nbsp;dimension.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;SPAN&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/LI&gt;&lt;LI&gt;&lt;SPAN&gt;Start&amp;nbsp;a new Freeform&amp;nbsp;table.&amp;nbsp;Click on&amp;nbsp;“&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;I&gt;&lt;SPAN&gt;Enable&amp;nbsp;table&amp;nbsp;builder”&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/I&gt;&lt;SPAN&gt;.&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;SPAN&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/LI&gt;&lt;LI&gt;&lt;SPAN&gt;Start dragging dimensions/segments from left rail to create the different breakdown levels and add metric(s).&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;SPAN&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/LI&gt;&lt;/UL&gt;&lt;/LI&gt;&lt;LI&gt;&lt;SPAN&gt;Don’t forget you can also use breakdowns as a crosstab and drag into columns instead of rows to easily&amp;nbsp;see&amp;nbsp;the same breakout across multiple rows.&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;SPAN&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;UL&gt;&lt;LI&gt;&lt;SPAN&gt;Crosstab breakouts work best with limited value dimensions in the columns to keep the data readable (such as Device Type, Marketing Channels).&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;SPAN&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/LI&gt;&lt;LI&gt;&lt;SPAN&gt;Stacking dimension values can act like filters to further segment data (without having to make segments).&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;SPAN&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/LI&gt;&lt;LI&gt;&lt;SPAN&gt;Combine&amp;nbsp;crosstab and&amp;nbsp;row&amp;nbsp;breakdowns for all the data!&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;SPAN&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/LI&gt;&lt;/UL&gt;&lt;/LI&gt;&lt;/UL&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;SPAN&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;span class="lia-inline-image-display-wrapper lia-image-align-inline" image-alt="gmhrb_1-1639576436733.png" style="width: 597px;"&gt;&lt;img src="https://experienceleaguecommunities.adobe.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/37400i63A20A8C1B15A72E/image-dimensions/597x285/is-moderation-mode/true?v=v2" width="597" height="285" role="button" title="gmhrb_1-1639576436733.png" alt="gmhrb_1-1639576436733.png" /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;STRONG&gt;&lt;SPAN&gt;Summary:&amp;nbsp;&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/STRONG&gt;&lt;SPAN&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;SPAN&gt;Adding&amp;nbsp;dropdown&amp;nbsp;filters and&amp;nbsp;breakdowns can&amp;nbsp;help&amp;nbsp;simplify your reporting by allowing the same tables/visualizations&amp;nbsp;to be used for multiple teams.&amp;nbsp;Business&amp;nbsp;owners can simply apply the relevant filters to see what they need to see instead of making&amp;nbsp;the same report for five different tactic owners – just make one with a&amp;nbsp;dropdown&amp;nbsp;filter.&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;Breakdowns allow you to see the details and the summary information in the one report which can reduce the number of&amp;nbsp;reports/Workspaces&amp;nbsp;that you and your teams&amp;nbsp;have to&amp;nbsp;navigate.&amp;nbsp;Go&amp;nbsp;forth and filter (or breakdown your dimensions)!&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;SPAN&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/P&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 15 Dec 2021 13:58:23 GMT</pubDate>
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      <dc:creator>gm-hrb</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2021-12-15T13:58:23Z</dc:date>
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      <title>Re: The Power of Dropdown Filters and Dimension Breakdowns in Adobe Analytics</title>
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      <description>&lt;P&gt;Great post Gretchen.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;I use dropdowns in all my standard reports. Because we have a global suite that pulls in multiple sites, I generally add dropdowns for Site Groups, Individual Sites, Device Type Groups, Platform Groups (ie. to distinguish mobile web from app and amp), Logged In/Out users, Entitlement Groups, etc&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;This is a really powerful way to create core reports cleanly, then allow users to combine segments to see the data in a whole different way (without having to make a report 20x the size).&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;If your users aren't as versed in how to use these, you can always add in the panel description how to use the dropdowns and common combinations that people might want to use!&lt;/P&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 23 Feb 2022 19:10:20 GMT</pubDate>
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      <dc:creator>Jennifer_Dungan</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2022-02-23T19:10:20Z</dc:date>
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