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I was looking to create dashboards for my org's stakeholders for their specific areas of our site. I was unable to get a report for the data I needed, so I researched Segments, created & applied them, and then applied them to each specific Dashboard I created. I come back the next day and noticed that the Segments were not saved in any Dashboards. This turned out to be a big waste of time and now I'm back at where I started with ZERO results to show. GA help pages are a waste of time b/c they don't give you instructions on how to accomplish anything, only why it's important. Can anyone direct me or provide instructions on how I can pull and save a custom report to a Dashboard for a specific area of a website.

B.Foor
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One way to address seeing a Google Analytics Segment in a Dashboard is to create a new View using the Segment rules. Once you have a new View, every report and Dashboard will be looking at just the data for the Segment used to create the View. Please note: A new View will only start capturing data from the point of creation and it will not have any of the historical data available. Create new View

The other method is to create a new Custom Report and apply a Filter that matches your Segment rules. Then view the resulting report and click on Add to Dashboard. This will preserve your Filter applied. Custom Report Filter

MarcusF
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  • Thank for so much for your reply and example. Unfortunately, this doesn't alleviate the issue at hand. I am still unable to get any custom reports to work and I'm looking for a instructional walk-through or some type of rubric that clearly shows how to pull custom reports. I've searched over and over again and I can't find this info anywhere! – B.Foor Jun 09 '16 at 13:55
  • Can you provide an example of the Metrics, Dimensions and Segment Rules you are looking at? Example: Metrics = Sessions, Transactions, Conversion Rate. Dimensions = Day of Week Name, Hour of Day, Browser Type. Segment/Filter = ga:country==Australia Note: I use Query Explorer to test the results of a potential Custom Report. [link] (https://ga-dev-tools.appspot.com/query-explorer/) – MarcusF Jun 10 '16 at 01:19