A mature platform shows itself not by relying on its complex capabilities alone, but also focusing on how simple it is to maintain the solutions built in it. On this front, an easy-to-miss time-saving feature in MCI is the ‘Find/Replace’ functionality found under Dimensions and Measurements management.
What it does – ‘Find/Replace’ can be used to do the following –
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To find and list the location of a given Metric or Dimension used across various processes within MCI. For example, in the screenshot given below, we select the ‘Clicks’ metric from the Measurement List and then click on the ‘Find/Replace’ option.
A pop-up window will then display the list of all the processes where the metric Clicks is used, and the processes can be drilled down further to look at the individual entities and open the process in a new tab if required.
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Once the location of the metric or dimension used across all the processes is listed, the user can exercise the option to replace them with any other metric or dimension based on the need. For example, in the pic below we are replacing Clicks with Website Clicks across all Pivots and Actions. The user also has the option of individually selecting entities across different processes. Between finding and replacing the entities we can accomplish in 5 mins what could have taken hours if done manually.
Eligible entities and processes with this feature –
| Entities | Process Locations |
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| Measurement List | Widget |
| Calculated Measurements | Page Filter |
| Filtered Measurements | Report |
| Dimension List (Including Harmonized and Classified Dimensions) | Pivot Table |
| Calculated Dimensions | Goal |
| Insight Bot | |
| Calculated Measurement | |
| Filtered Measurement | |
| Calculated Dimension | |
| Action | |
| Patterns | |
| Data Classification |
Caution to Follow – The user must be aware of the fact that the ‘Replace’ feature is irreversible once executed and there is no undo option to swap the original entities. Therefore, great care must be exercised when using this feature.
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