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Analytics - Email reports - show filters like Date Range in email body

  • June 1, 2022
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In Analytics I love that I can set a schedule to email out a report that I’ve created - for both internal and external recipients.

What’s missing though are parameters to allow the body of the email to (1) harvest the date range from the report itself along with (2) the Department names -- or really any filter that has been applied to the report.

Here’s my process:

  • I create a monthly report -
  • set the filter as Date Range = Previous Month -
  • set the schedule to run on the 1st day of each month
  • type in all the email addresses manually (that’s another thing that needs improvement - why is this not a search through the Contacts?)

So the 1st of the month comes and the email goes out - but there’s nothing in the report or in the email to indicate the Date Range of the report.

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zachary.king
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  • June 2, 2022

Hi @BrynCYDEF Couldn’t agree with you more on this. In the past I have either had the email sent to me, made changes to the subject line to include the date range before dispersing out the report, or setup a workflow through microsoft power automate that does this for me. Unnecessary steps in my opinion if this was a part of the default capability. +1 vote from me! Great suggestion.


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  • June 2, 2022

@zachary.king thanks for the upvote!  I was doing those edits as well and then sending a fresh email but found it so time consuming that I just made the report info as generic as possible.  MS power automate is quite interesting but I don’t know anything about it - will have to investigate.

Another thing I’ve always wished for is the ability to re-use the same report with all my clients - this time the filter on Department Name is a parameter so I don’t have to make 50 cloned reports (nightmare!) and then <shudder> update them if I want to change something.