Creating Grouped Reports

Grouped reports can be thought of as a set of individual reports created simultaneously with each report showing a nonintersecting slice of the total data set. The data slice shown in each report is based on one or more slicing dimensions. For example, a report of sales by a user sliced on the user dimension would produce a sales report for each user. A report of sales by year and by user, sliced on user and year, would produce an annual sales report for each user for every year in which there are sales. One of the functions of report grouping is to limit the data shown in any one report to the data slice applicable for the intended user. For example, if a site hosts multiple advertisers it would make sense to provide advertising campaign results only to the advertisement sponsor instead of showing all advertising results to all advertisers. Grouped reports provide this capability and support slicing by multiple dimensions. This capability supports the hosting environment, supplier enablement, and individualized reporting, by allowing the user to create a set of reports sliced by dimensions such as user, site, advertiser, and campaign.

The steps involved in creating a grouped report are described as a running example in the following sections:

1. Update the grouped report SDK sample script. For details on this step, see Update the Grouped Report SDK Script.
2. Run the grouped report. For details on this step, see Running the Grouped Report.

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