For testing purpose I always use the drop zone of the panel in a workspcae project, drag to panel, edit and make public if needed.
Maybe that was too short, lets get through the single steps:
- Drop any item which you want to use in the segment in the filter zone at the top of a panel. For example, if you drop a single element of a dimension (orange), it will stick there and show the item. but that is already a full segment even if the color doesn't make it clear at the beginning (jen.lasser maybe something to improve?)
- Move the item to any table you want. as soon as you do this the color switches to blue (segments)
- hoover over the new segment and hit
and edit to get i to segment manager, adjust segment as needed.
Repeat steps 1-3 if you need more segments to compare...
The cool thing about this is that your segmentd are created "locally", that means they exists only within this workspace project! the bad thing: if you accidentally remove it, it's lost!
As soon as you finished testing and are happy with a segment, you can make it "public". the easiest way is hoovering over segment, hit
and within the info box use the link at the bottom "make segment public". Now you're segment is within the segments manager for you and you may go on and share as needed.
at the end, you either leave the test project as is (use "tags" to mark as test) or delete it completely. if you do the last, all the temporary segments in the project will get deleted as well.
let me know if you need more information