Most popular filtering

Ranking and conditional filters that you configure using Boolean logic with AND/OR search expressions.

Most Popular filters are expression filters that you configure using Boolean logic with AND/OR conditions, such as Page does not contain*<product name>* with conditions or groups of conditions like Includes All, Includes Any, or Excludes All. You can save these expressions for other request in this workbook, or in other workbooks.

To create a Most Popular filter

  1. Create or edit a request, and advance to the Request Wizard: Step 2.

  2. On the Request Wizard: Step 2, click the link next to the dimension in the grid, then choose Filter.

    Screenshot showing the Define Filter dialogue with options to Filter by Application, User, and Project.

  3. On the Choose Page form, enable Most Popular, then configure the following options:

    Starting Rank: The starting rank of a dimension. A default rank of 1 indicates the top item in the list of data reported. For example, for the dimension Page, a starting mark of 1 indicates the single most requested page of your site. You could specify 10 or another value as the starting rank cell, which produces a report starting with 10 as the highest. Metrics are arranged in descending order, so that line items with the greatest activity are reported first in the list. If you require more than 50,000 page names in one request, but have thousands of pages on which to report, you can copy the request and change the starting rank to retrieve the appropriate data in blocks of 50,000.

    Number of Entries: ( Pivot Layout only) Defines how many items are reported for a particular metric over a date range. Some metrics may list hundred of entries for a metric, while others may show just a few. For example, for the dimension Site Section, a number of entries of 25 indicates that the report shows the 25 most visited pages.

    Arrows allow you to change the Starting Rank and Number of Entries of the first data point in the sheet. By default, the Starting Rank is set to 1 and the Number of Entries to 10. These values are adjustable from a minimum of one to a maximum of 50,000 for certain metrics. Each metric has its own ceiling on Number of Entries. No negative values or zero are permitted in these fields. If you choose a Starting Rank as 15 and Number of Entries as 10, data requests for the metric return the 10 most visited pages, where the first most visited page is number 15 in the list for the specific date range. All the most requested pages ranked 15th to 25th are listed in descending order.

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    Applying filters to existing requests causes changes in the data presented. Suppose you mapped the top ten Pages to cells $A$1 through $A$10, with 1 for Starting Rank and 10 for Number of Entries. If you change these values to show 1 for Starting Rank and only 3 for Number of Entries, the data previously filling cells $A$4 through $A$10 will no longer appear.
  4. To create a search expression, click Add.

  5. On the Define Filter form, configure the conditions appropriate for your needs.

    Screenshot showing the Define Filter dialogue.

    The select cell icon lets you locate a condition defined in the value of a cell. The select cell icon.

    The Add Condition link lets you add a condition to the expression. There is no limit to the number of conditions you can add.

  6. Click OK.

    Screenshot of the Define Filter dialogue with the OK button in the bottom right-side.

  7. On the Choose Page form, click Save to save the expression.

  8. Click OK.

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