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Webtrends Helpful Tip – Setting up Visitor History
Webtrends has the ability to store data about the behavior of each unique visitor analyzed for their profile. This blog will show you how to properly configure the visitor history table and tracking.
Google Analytics Helpful Tip – Excluding Traffic by Cookies
Excluding internal traffic from appearing in your Google Analytics reports via cookie content can be done by leveraging the _setVar method. This is an advanced feature of the tool that excludes traffic from dynamic IP addresses without using an IP range filter.
Google Analytics Helpful Tip – Excluding Internal IP Addresses
Are you looking to exclude internal traffic from appearing in your Google Analytics reports but do not know how to do so? This blog posting will describe how you can go about doing that so your reports only reflect customer behaviors and patterns.
Tableau Helpful Tip – Adding Subtotals & Totals to Data Sources
Tableau supports grand totals and subtotals for both relational and multidimensional data sources. This blog posting will describe how to enable this feature for both sources.
Omniture Insight Helpful Tip – Updating Access Control File
Are you looking to update your Omniture Insight access control file but do not know how to go about doing that? This blog posting will help you set that up so that you can begin to take advantage of this feature.
Tableau Helpful Tip – Highlighting Actions
Do you want to highlight data within a view in Tableau but you are unsure on how to set this up? This blog will explain the steps needed to be taken to enable this feature.
Tableau Helpful Tip – Packaging Workbooks
Do you save files not only within Tableau but also locally as Tableau extracts or excel documents that you would like collected into a single file for easier referencing? This blog posting will help you create packaged workbooks which as a single file makes it wasier to share the workbook with team members.
Omniture Insight Helpful Tip – Changing Default Visualization
Are you looking for a way to change the default visualization display within Omniture Insight but do not know how to do that? This blog posting will explain how to go about setting that up within the interface.
Tableau Helpful Tip – Web Mapping Service
Tableau, out of the box, provides online and offline mapping that can be connected to a web Map Service. This blog posting will describe how to connect a workbook to a WMS so that you can begin to perform further granular analysis on your data.
Tableau Helpful Tip – Relative Dates
Setting up date filters within Tableau allows you to only show time periods for which you are interested in seeing and analyzing. It also helps minimize the time spent having to update the workbook.

