Calculated Dimensions

[#1]

As an analyst I'd like to be able to create "calculated" dimensions. I see this working in 3 ways:

1. Simple manipulation of a value - for example like the LEFT/RIGHT/MID functions you have in Excel so I can snip out the relevant bit from a dimension value that I need in my workspace report.
2. Ability to combine two (or more dimension) to create a new one
3. The functionality to use a CASE statement (or similar) to change the dimension value.

I appreciate something like 3 could be done by classification but the ability to do #1 and #2 at report run-time by the analyst building the report would be great!

[#2]

Hi there, very relevant comment, thank you. May you let us know if you found a way to do so, specifically #2?

[#3]

Just to add some possible approaches:

• Case 1 could also be covered using Classifications and the Classification Rule Builder.
• Case 2, depending on the setup, could also be done through Classification Rule Builder (I described an approach here https://www.fullstackanalyst.io/blog/adobe-analytics/five-awesome-adobe-analytics-classification-use...)

[#4]

@FrederikWerner I don't disagree but not all users have access to that. Including functions to manipulate dimension values at report-time would help regular analysts rather than those with more of the admin access.
Functions I see being useful would be: LEFT/RIGHT/MID/SPLIT/JOIN (for aggregating multiple dimension)/UPPER/LOWER/PROPER

[#5]

Or something like REGEXP_EXTRACT.  Also complex nested logical statements is something used very often in the creation of custom channels for traffic.

This is a fairly typical requirement of most semi-advanced web analytics, but I imagine Adobe is avoiding it to not bear compute costs for users.