Hoping someone can point me in the right direction - we use a lot of lists and it's driving me crazy that I can't create a list and immediately use it in Analytics. Now, to make matters worse, our lists don't even show up the next day. Sometimes we have to wait 2-3 days in order to pull information out of analytics using a list. Can anyone tell me if there is a workaround for this? We usually need some of this info on the spot, not 3 days later.
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If your lists aren't showing up the next day, I would check that you're using the "Full" rather than "Incremental" load for your scheduled overnight loads. We had that issue a while back and switching to always doing the Full load fixed it for us.
I would also add that you can, theoretically, run a load at any time as long as you don't mind Analytics being down for an hour while it runs. (This is at least true for self-hosted orgs, I can't speak for people on RAMP/Tess Hosting.) I have had to do a midday load in the past when emergency reporting needs have come up. Someone with access to your Analytics server would just need to hop on and run the job. It might not be best practice, but it is an option when you REALLY need that list filter immediately.
We are on Ramp so have no access to our loads. I thought the nightly load would be sufficient for the lists to show next day, but if it needs a full load that would make sense.
(Depending on the criteria), filtered values can mitigate some of the list reliance. Also Custom Categories can take some of that heat as well.
Building on Heath and Anne's comments: a Ranking type filter can also be used to produce an equivalent list of Constituent ID in Analytics as a filter on a dashboard, widget, or formula.
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I'm not sure if that would work (my analytics skills are not that advanced!) We do a lot of segmentation, so create lists from extractions to isolate certain segments. The current lists we are working with (that are still not in analytics after 2 days) are looking at year over year lapsed donors. We need to output in a table their giving history by appeal/date/amount - I know I can do this from a report but the output isn't the format we want, while an analytics table is exactly what we want. I'm not sure of any other means of getting just those specific segments into analytics other than using a list or manually adding them (which would be very time consuming)