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mitchell_teixei
mitchell_teixei
Level 3
February 17, 2010
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RegEx Support in filters

  • February 17, 2010
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It would be very helpful if Regular Expressions were supported in Filters/Advanced Filters.  The value of the filter function is severely reduced without RegEx support.

To continue on the same train of thought, it would be great if it were possible to save filters once they've been updated on bookmarked reports.  I find myself re-bookmarking reports after adding an extra filter parameter or two. If I miss re-bookmarking, then I need to re-add the new filter parameters next time I view the report.

Thanks for your consideration of my input!

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    jdonley
    Level 8
    April 30, 2014

    I wish I had more upvotes to give to this.  There's no reason Adobe can't easily implement regex capability to ALL of their fields.  This isn't 1990.  

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    eric_matisoff
    Level 2
    December 7, 2015

    Although the Advanced > Special Characters feature of Filters in Repotrs & Analytics is nice, it'd be awesome to have full RegEx capabilities. Analytics Workspace only has Contains/Does Not Contain which is even more limited.

     

    An example where I need RegEx for Report Filtering:

    I'm trying to filter my Page URL eVar report to list only items with a colon, two characters that aren't colons, then a colon.

     

    In RegEx, that'd be super-easy to create. But not possible with Reports & Analytics "Advanced" filtering capability.

     

    The closest option that I've found is the "Matches" option while creating Segments, but there really isn't any detail in the Knowledge Base to explain what special characters are available: https://marketing.adobe.com/resources/help/en_US/analytics/segment/seg_operators.html

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    eric_matisoff
    Level 2
    May 3, 2016

    Similar to: http://ideas.omniture.com/t5/Idea-Exchange-for-Adobe/Full-RegEx-for-report-filtering/idi-p/14352

     

    I'd love to have full regex in Adobe: Reports/Analytics and Workspace.

     

    But at the moment, we only have Contains or Does Not Contain. Expanding Workspace to at least Reports/Analytics filter features would be a great step!

    andrew_r-GrfLbX
    andrew_r-GrfLbX
    Level 5
    May 11, 2016

    +1 for this, I'm surprised it's not been improved upon yet :/

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    proletm
    Level 3
    October 13, 2017

    I am surprised in this day and age we do not have regex. Can we please get it!

    luekl
    luekl
    Level 3
    November 20, 2017

    there must be something really deep down in the architecture of Adobe analytics Preventing regexp in Filters. It is so common in other Tools and so god-damn useful that I don’t see that any other reason would justify its absence to this day.

    at least the advanced filters from reports and analytics should be allowed in workspace again

    Asheesh_Pandey
    Community Advisor
    Asheesh_PandeyCommunity Advisor
    Community Advisor
    March 16, 2019

    Love the idea...eagerly waiting for this

    - Asheesh
    kumararajak
    kumararajak
    Level 5
    October 7, 2019

    Superb though... good idea

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    sorenhoyer
    Level 2
    March 24, 2021

    Hopefully this is coming soon. We also have a need for it, in our case we'd love the be able to match the ends with "button\:(.+)$" but unfortunately the current filter options does not allow that.

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