Hierarchy Variable should follow the deduplication approach which is followed in other Analytics Variables

[#1]

Description - Hierarchy Level 2 Variable shows the same value captured from multiple nodes in different line items.

Let's assume a scenario in which we're tracking:

s.hier1 = "first_value>second_value"; for 3 page views in total

s.hier1 = "third_value>second_value"; for 5 page views in total.

The delimiter is set to ">" in our example.

What we see in Adobe Workspace for the report "Hierarchy Level 1" is:

• third_value: 5 page views
• first_value: 3 page views

This makes perfect sense to us and is working as expected.

What we see in Adobe Workspace for the report "Hierarchy Level 2" is:

• second_value: 5 page views
• second_value: 3 page views

We see "second_value" two times.

That is super confusing and also causes a lot of questions on the client side. We'd rather expect the report to look this way:

• second_value: 8 page views

From a technical point of view it is fine, but from a business point of view that this is not working as designed. There is no benefit and no additional insight in "splitting" the hierarchy level 2+ reports with the same values, and I feel like this should be changed, there should be only 1 line item for the same value though it is coming via multiple nodes, the results should be accumulated.

[#2]

Especially, since you can always get the "by node" breakdown by using Level 1 and Level 2 so then you see "second_value" nested under each parent node with the correct metric count.

Upvoted.