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Category — Custom reporting

Automate your reports with the ODBC driver

The ODBC driver is probably my favorite WebTrends feature.  I still haven’t bothered to use REST because ODBC does everything I want.
With the ODBC driver I can create a 1 click report in Excel that I can distribute to anyone in my organization. They don’t have to log in, they don’t have to figure out [...]

September 1, 2011   18 Comments

Basing a dimension on a subpart of a URL

You don’t need to have WebTrends custom reports showing URL craziness like “/discount/Catamaran/coupon/ 8299937-fda.html”. If you just want “Catamaran,” you can extract it and display just that subpart.

May 6, 2009   7 Comments

Suspending a Custom Report

Discontinue – but continue to view results for – WebTrends custom reports that no longer need to be processed.

May 6, 2009   4 Comments

Cool Custom Report: Campaign latency, pt 1

Campaign attribution, campaign latency, residual effects, latent conversions, indirect campaign effects, post-campaign effects. Whatever you want to call it, here are some WebTrends solutions for it. Part one of several.

February 3, 2009   3 Comments

Making a blitz profile

The WebTrends software version allows data re-analysis any time you want. Sometimes you want it SOON. Here’s how to make a speedy re-analysis profile for one-time use.

January 21, 2009   12 Comments