Content updates for the Adobe Analytics documentation set since January, 2019.
Updates to project sharing documentation
Added permission requirements for uploading files to Azure SAS and Azure RBAC in Data Warehouse and Data Feeds
Added permission requirements for uploading files to Amazon S3 and GCP buckets in Data Warehouse and Data Feeds
Component migration applies to individual IMS orgs
Clarified that certain information is available only to administrators
Updates to Media average minute audience documentation
Updated information in Media average minute audience panel to improve clarity.
Improvements include:
- Improved organization of information
- Added steps to indicate task-based information
Improved bot rules documentation
Updated information in Understand and configure bot rules to improve clarity.
Improvements include:
- Updated article title to be more descriptive
- Improved organization of information
- Added steps to indicate task-based information
- Added more details about CSV file requirements when uploading bot rules
Updates to Anomaly Detection and Contribution Analysis documentation
The documentation for Anomaly Detection and Contribution Analysis was previously located in a section about Virtual Analyst. The following changes were made:
- The term Virtual Analyst was removed from the documentation.
- The section about Anomaly Detection was moved directly beneath the Analysis Workspace section.
- The Contribution Analysis documentation was merged into the Anomaly Detection documentation.
"Attribution IQ " changed to “Attribution”
Changed all instances of “Attribution IQ” to “
Attribution” throughout the documentation.
Updates to Activity Map activation/enablement topic
Added
Web SDK (both manual and via Adobe Experience Platform tags extension) content.
Added log information to Reporting Activity Manager
Updates to Data Warehouse component support
Added availability for some components and removed availability for others for Data Warehouse. These changes are reflected in Component support in Data Warehouse.
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Added support for the Visit Depth dimension (removed Visit Depth from the list of dimensions not supported)
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Removed support for Participation metrics (added Participation metrics to the list of metrics not supported)
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Added support for the following time-based dimensions: Year, Quarter, Month, Week, Day, Hour, and Minute (removed these dimensions from the list of dimensions not supported)
Previously, Data Warehouse supported these dimensions only in the first column of a Freeform table when Granularity was selected. Now these dimensions are always supported.
However, the output of dates is non-standard when using these dimensions. The year is offset by 1900, and months are zero-based.
Updated structure of articles for the Media Playback Time Spent panel
Removed the folder called Media Playback Time Spent, and combined the contents of the folder into a single article: Media Playback Time Spent panel.
This change is more in line with the documentation for other panels.
Get started content enhancements
Added information outlining key getting-started tasks and resources for administrators, analysts, end users, and developers. The following new articles are now available:
Improvements to Media Analytics Reporting documentation
Reorganized some of the content in the Reporting section of the Streaming Media guide, including consolidating the API documentation in its own section and adjusting the order of some articles.
Renamed the Media Workspace Templates article to Media reports in Workspace to better align with the in-product naming.
Data feed clarification
Updated
the definition of Start & End dates to clarify that when processing data feeds for historical data, you can set the start date to any date in the past when data is being collected.
Experience Edge data handling
Media Playback Time Spent panel
Moved content about managing scheduled projects
Created a new article in the Analytics Components Guide called
Scheduled projects. This content was previously located in the
Schedule projects article in the Analytics Tools Guide.
Compare implementation methods
Updated documentation that compares different implementation methods.
Learn more
Clarified that configuring SFTP for Data Feeds does not require Adobe Customer Care
Clarified in Send Adobe data to an external FTP account with SFTP that customers do not need to engage Adobe Customer Care in order to configure SFTP for Data Feeds.
Also added a note that SFTP is no longer recommended, and that customers should use a cloud destination when configuring Data Feeds.
Documentation improvements for Streaming Media
The following documentation improvements were made for Streaming Media:
- Updated the general overview to improve clarity and to include information related to Customer Journey Analytics.
- Updated the implementation overview to clearly differentiate between Edge implementations and Analytics-only implementations. Also included diagrams to illustrate the various implementation methods.
- Added prerequisites specific to Edge implementations and Analytics-only implementations. Also updated the general prerequisites.
- Updated tables in the Get Media SDKs, Extensions using Tags, and OTT SDKs article to include new columns for Supported solutions and Implementation method.
- Streamlined content and organization of articles in the Implementation area of the documentation. This included categorizing implementations by Edge implementations and Analytics-only implementations.
- Removed an extra level of hierarchy that wasn’t needed under Tracking and added redirects for changed URLs in this section.
Adobe Experience Platform Edge Network Server API
Added more comprehensive documentation on when and how to implement data collection with Adobe Analytics using the
Adobe Experience Platform Edge Network Server API. For example, implementing data collection with Adobe Analytics in desktop applications, IoT devices, set top boxes.
New AppMeasurement variable
The variable
decodeLinkParameters
accommodates edge cases where implementations encode multi-byte characters in link tracking variables.
Learn more
Configuring cloud account storage locations for ingesting classification data
You can now manage cloud account storage locations that are used for classification set automation.
Learn more
Data Repair filter enhancements
Three filtering improvements were added to Data Repair.
Learn more
New features for classification sets
Classification sets have been updated with several new features:
- Consolidations: Combine classification sets into a single consolidated classification set. The consolidated classification set can be used like other classification sets or as a lookup data set in Customer Journey Analytics. Learn more
- Rules: Automatically classify values based on rules in the classification set. Learn more
- Automated import: Automatically import classification data from cloud storage destinations. Learn more
Calculated metrics updates
Updates were made to various articles related to calculated metrics, including updating screen shots and steps in procedures. These changes were made to bring documentation inline with current Adobe Analytics functionality.
Secure destinations for data feed export
Data feeds can now be sent to the following cloud storage destinations:
- Amazon S3
- Azure RBAC
- Azure SAS
- Google Cloud Platform
Destinations that were previously available (FTP, SFTP, S3, and Azure Blob) are no longer recommended. Learn more
Bot reporting in Workspace
Bot reporting is now available in Analysis Workspace. This feature comes with several additions:
The new dimension and metrics contain data that is backfilled starting in March 2023.
Deep Linking (Mobile App) documentation
Allows users to send links to scorecards that will lead them directly to the scorecard project in the app.
Learn more
Documentation for updated Home screen for the Analytics dashboards app (Mobile App)
The new updated Home screen allows you to view all of your scorecards in one consolidated scorecard list.
Learn more
Spectrum icons
Replaced, where appropriate, screenshots of user interface icons in the documentation with references to the equivalent icons in
Adobe’s Spectrum Design System.
Reporting Activity Manager
Analysis Workspace overview
Create projects
Created a new article that explains in detail how to
Create projects in Analysis Workspace.
Sort components in the left rail
Added information about sorting the list of components in the left rail. See the “Search, filter, and sort the component list” section in
Components overview.
Delete rows containing dynamic dimensions from a Freeform table
Added information about how to quickly delete specific rows that contain dynamic dimensions using the x icon. See the “Quickly exclude specific rows from a table” section in
Filter and sort tables.
Button to add a visualization within a panel
Added information about a new button at the bottom of each panel in Analysis Workspace that allows you to quickly add a visualization. See the “Add visualizations to a panel” section in
Visualizations overview.
Transfer user assets and set account expirations
2 new endpoint guides for the Adobe Analytics 2.0 API
Project segments (Ad hoc and quick segments)
Streamlined docmentation about project segments and removed duplicated information. The steps for creating ad hoc segments are now combined with the steps for
creating quick segments.
Dynamic lookups
Additional information around
Dynamic lookups is added. Previously, Information only existed for mobile attributes, which is one of several dynamic lookups.
Web SDK support for Activity Map
Traffic variables (props) overview
Added sections and step-by-step procedures to clarify and improve article content. Merged content from an article titled, “Enable traffic variable reports” and removed that article. See
Traffic variables (props) overview.
Internal URL filters
Added sections and step-by-step procedures to clarify and improve article content. See
Internal URL filters.
Create data stories in mobile scorecards
A
data story is a collection of supporting data points, business context, and related metrics built around a central theme or metric.
Default calculated metrics
Link sharing for projects (no login required)
Updated existing documentation to explain how to share a read-only link of a project with people who do not have access to Analysis Workspace.
Updated user documentation includes Share projects and Create shareable links.
Options for administrators were added to Preferences.
Workspace calendars and date ranges
Mobile scorecards
New documentation section to describe how to show and hide comparison date ranges. See
Show comparison date ranges in Customer Journey Analytics.
Tracking across implementation types
Filter and sort tables
Updated content (including adding procedures and explaining available options) in the
Filter and sort tables article. Renamed this article from “Pagination, filtering and sorting tables.”
User preferences
Many additional user preferences are now available in
Preferences.
Auto-save for projects
Updated content to include auto-save functionality in
Save projects.
Consent management variables
Classification sets
The new user
Classification sets experience provides a single interface to manage classifications and rules and improves visibility of customer-owned classification data.
Mobile app: Custom detail views
Updated plugin
Updated version of the
getvalonce implementation plugin.
New configuration variable
High-entropy client hints
New topic on how Adobe is using
client hints in addition to User-Agent to determine device information.
Processing order
Various help pages have been aggregated to provide a single help topic on
Processing order.
Support for List Variables in XDM for Edge Collection
Enables customers collecting data via Experience Edge/Web SDK to use XDM to specify the List Variable contents.
Learn more
Use of SKU field in XDM for Edge Collection when setting product string Variables
Enables customers collecting data via Experience Edge/Web SDK to use the SKU value to set the product field in the products variable.
Learn more
Merchandising variables in XDM for Edge Collection
Experience Platform Edge documentation
Updated Flow visualization documentation
Documentation on sharing annotations in Mobile scorecards
Populate Lifecycle dimensions and metrics through Experience Edge
Mobile Lifecycle data sent via Experience Edge now appears in Analytics reporting. See
Analytics variable mapping for details on which XDM fields map to existing mobile Lifecycle reporting.
Adobe Analytics landing page updates
New topic on Page Summary panel
New topic on Next/Previous item panel
New topic on supported HTTPS encryption algorithms
New documentation on Annotations in Workspace
Annotations in Workspace enable you to effectively communicate contextual data nuances and insights to your organization.
Adobe Analytics landing page updates
Updates to the joint Workspace/Reports & Analytics landing page that improves usability and ease of navigation.
Next item or Previous item Workspace panel
This panel allows you to explore items that follow or precede a dimension item of your choice.
Page Summary Workspace panel
This panel provides a deep-dive analysis for a page of your choosing.
New topic on pausing older scheduled reports
Effective April 15, 2022, Adobe intends to pause all scheduled reports that have a creation date greater than two years
Mobile scorecard project preview mode
The
preview mode allows you to preview the experience before you save and share a scorecard.
API projects endpoint
Add, edit or delete Analysis Workspace projects using the API.
Learn more
Updated topic on pausing older scheduled Report Builder tasks
August 18, 2021
Revised top-level structure and consolidated to a single
Landing page
August 5, 2021
Updated classifications documentation on
templates,
browser import, and
browser export to indicate options unavailable for report suites that are enabled for the New Classification Architecture.
March 25, 2021
New documentation on the Components > User preferences page. It enables you to manage Analysis Workspace settings and its related components for your user. User preferences applies to all new projects and panels.
Note: the following settings have moved to the User preferences page:
- Report Settings: Thousands separator (now called Number format)
- Report Settings: CSV separator
- Workspace projects: Help > Enable tips
- Workspace projects: Blank panel Start new projects with this panel option
March 25, 2021
Histogram Smart Bucket Prediction helps with high-cardinality-metrics histograms by automatically identifying the right width and number of buckets for your data spread. For low-cardinality metrics, the visualization behaves the same as it did previously.
March 25, 2021
Data Repair API updates (filtering for URLs, query strings, at signs, and more)
February 4, 2021
Component Selection: The drop-down/drop zone component found in Quick Insights was added to all drop zones in Workspace. This enhancement lets you pick from a drop-down list of compatible components or continue to use the space as a drop zone.
January 14, 2021
Added language selection option to Analytics dashboards documentation.
January 14, 2021
Added documentation on how you can add images to Workspace projects by referencing a public image URL.
January 14, 2021
Combined source & settings manager for Workspace visualizations: The Data Source manager (dot) and settings manager (gear) for visualizations have been combined into a single popover, so you can easily manage your source and settings from the same location.
December 7, 2020
Amended all relevant pages to include or substitute the “adobedc.net” endpoint.
November 24, 2020
New implementation review documents:
October 23, 2020
Workspace Line visualization:
Moving average trendline option: This setting was added to Line visualization trendline settings. Also known as a rolling average, a moving average uses a specific number of data points (determined by a
Periods selection), averages them, and uses the average as a point in the line.
October 23, 2020
The Workspace
Performance Help page shows the different factors that impact project performance and links to tips for optimization.
October 23, 2020
Added enhancements to Adobe Analytics dashboads documentation. In the mobile scorecard in Workspace, the styling of the scorecard now matches the app.
September 17, 2020
Download 50K items for a single dimension: You can now download 50,000 items for a single dimension in a freeform table, with segments and filters applied. This allows you to access more than the 400 rows of data outside of Analysis Workspace.
September 17, 2020
Enhancements to Line visualization:
- You can show or hide the X-axis and Y-axis of any Line visualization. This can be especially helpful when your Line visualizations are more compact.
- You can overlay a minimum and maximum value label on any Line visualization to quickly highlight the peaks and valleys in a metric.
- You can overlay different regression trend lines on any Line visualization to more easily see the trend in the data. Options include Linear, Logarithmic, Exponential, Power and Quadratic.
September 17, 2020
New date ranges in Workspace: We added 5 new date ranges so you can choose from date ranges that do not include partial day data from today: Last 7 full days, Last 14 full days, Last 30 full days, Last 60 full days, Last 90 full days
July 16, 2020
New date range presets in Workspace. Added 4 new date ranges: (This week/month/quarter/year (excluding today)). This lets you choose from date ranges that do not include partial-day data from today.
June 25, 2020
New documentation for
Quick Insights panel in Workspace. It provides guidance for non-analysts and new users of Analysis Workspace to learn how to answer business questions quickly and easily.
June 25, 2020
New documentation for
Analytics for Target panel in Workspace. It lets you analyze your Adobe Target activities and experiences, with lift and confidence.
June 18, 2020
New documentation for
Project roles for shared Workspace projects. When sharing a Workspace project, you can now place recipients in one of three project roles, depending on the project experience you want them to have: Edit, Duplicate and View.
June 18, 2020
New documentation on
“View only” Workspace projects. Projects can be shared to users as “Can view” only. When a View recipient opens the shared project, they receive a more restrictive project experience, with no left rail and limited interactions.
June 18, 2020
New documentation on
Project roles for shared Workspace projects. When sharing a Workspace project, you can now place recipients in one of three project roles, depending on the project experience you want them to have: Edit, Duplicate and View.
June 18, 2020
New documentation on
Co-editing Workspace projects. Recipients added to the “Can edit” role can save over a project that has been shared to them. This extends to both admins and non-admins.
May 21, 2020
New documentation on
accessibility improvements to Analysis Workspace, including improved keyboard navigation, color contrast, and screen reader support.
April 16, 2020
Documentation on how to automatically build Freeform Tables from a blank state. Previously, you could not drop components directly into a blank project or blank panel; you had to add a freeform table first. You can now drop components directly into a blank project or panel, and a freeform table will automatically be built for you in a recommended format. Additionally, improvements were made to how mixed component types (e.g. dimensions & metrics) are handled when dropped into a blank Freeform Table together.
March 12, 2020
Updates to CDA stitching latency.
March 12, 2020
Support for multiple report suites in Workspace. You can now bring in data from multiple report suites into a single project to view side by side.
Learn more…
March 12, 2020
Training Tutorial template in Workspace. This new standard template walks you through common terminology and steps for building your first analysis in Workspace. It is available as a standard template in the New Project modal and replaces the sample project that exists today for new users that do not have other projects in their list.
Learn more…
February 20, 2020
New Workspace template for organizations using Cross-Device Analytics. This template shows how effective CDA is at stitching visits together and educates you on CDA-exclusive dimensions and metrics. A report suite using CDA is required. See
Set up Cross-Device Analytics for more information.
February 20, 2020
New hotkeys in Workspace:
- Collapse/Expand All panels:
alt + m
- Collapse/Expand Active panel:
alt + ctrl + m
- Search left rail:
ctrl + /
- Move to next panel:
alt + Right Key
- Move to previous panel:
alt + Left Key
Learn more…
February 20, 2020
Workspace enhancements:
- When a panel or visualization is dropped into Workspace, the left rail will now auto-switch to components for a more seamless workflow.
- Template components can now be actioned upon (e.g. tagged, favorited, approved).
- Filtered metric and segment lists offer the + button to add a new component if you don’t find what you need.
February 20, 2020
Workspace debugger was added to the Help menu, giving you a more seamless way to enable it for debugging Workspace requests.
Learn more…
January 16, 2020
New documentation on Freeform Table Builder. With Table Builder enabled, you can drag and drop in many dimensions, breakdowns, metrics and segments to build tables that answer more complex business questions. Data will not update immediately. Instead, updates occur after you click Build, saving you time once you know what table you want to construct. Additionally, this feature offers:
- Preview: You can preview the format of a table before spending time to render real data.
- Flexible Row and breakdown settings: You can set your row and breakdown levels for every dimension row. Previously, Workspace imposed defaults that could not be changed until after the data was returned.
- Breakdown by position: You can set dimension rows to always breakdown by position instead of by specific item (the default).
- Manual static row ordering: You can manually order static rows so that the table rows are displayed exactly as you need them. Previously, static rows could be sorted only by a metric column or alphabetically.
November 25, 2019
New topic on End-of-life for Enforce IP login restrictions.
October 10, 2019
Update to Freeform table totals: they now include two totals, a
Table total and a
Grand total. The Table total row accounts for
report filters applied. Previously, only segmentation impacted totals.
Learn moreIn addition,
Show Totals and
Show Grand Total options have been added to
Column Settings.
With this change to Freeform totals, dependent visualizations will be updated (e.g. linked
Summary Number visualizations), as well as exported CSV and PDF data.
October 10,2019
In Workspace, the ability to easily remove ‘Unspecified (None)’ was added as an option to report filters.
October 10,2019
In Workspace, purple granularity components (Minute, Hour, Day, Week, Month, Quarter, Year) were deprecated. No action needs to taken if you previously used one of the purple time components.
With this change, the purple Time section has also been renamed to Date Ranges.
July 18, 2019
In the left rail in Workspace, users now have the option to Show items from last 18 months. Previously, the lookback period was a maximum of 6 months. This makes it easier to compare to pages or campaigns from last year, up to 18 months ago.
July 18, 2019
Documentation on a new Workspace template called
“Magento: Marketing & Commerce” to Analysis Workspace. It is designed specifically for Magento e-commerce customers, but any retailer can use it to get unique insights into their commerce activities.
June 13, 2019
Added new out-of-the-box filters to the left rail search in Workspace. Beyond what you see today (Dimensions, Metrics, Approved, etc.), new filters such as Calculated Metrics, Customer Attributes, eVars, Props, Video, etc. were added to make it easier to find the components you need.
May 09, 2019
A new setting was added to the Flow visualization settings: Include Repeat Instances. See
Flow Settings
February 7, 2019
Minor update to the “Replace the last octet of IP addresses with 0” and the “IP Obfuscation” settings in
General Account Settings.
January 17, 2019
Cohort Analysis - Major improvements to Cohort Analysis let you:
- Apply a segment inclusion and return metrics separately.
- Show churn instead of retention.
- Show latency tables (time elapsed before and after an inclusion event).
- Customize cohort dimension (to group visitors based on an eVar, not just time).
- Do a rolling cohort calculation: calculate retention/churn based on prior time period, not original cohort.
- Add in multiple metrics in inclusion & return fields, as well as apply segments. (Calculated metrics are not supported)
January 17, 2019
View Density. This new setting lets you see more data on a single screen by reducing the vertical padding of the left rail, freeform tables and cohort tables. Accessible via Project > Project Info & Settings.
January 17, 2019
Support for multi-valued variables in Attribution. Some dimensions in Analytics can contain multiple values on a single hit, such as listVars, the product variable, list props, or merchandising eVars. Analysis Workspace lets you apply Attribution to any of these types of variables at the hit level.