Google Custom Report Filters are a pain in the arse

[Nightwing]

Greetings from high weed pollen count Wetherby UK

Ok ive been having extreme custom reporting filter frustration with Google analytics.

My objective was to set up a "custom" google analytics report that detailed:

1. Referral traffic from external sights in one reporting tab
2. Visitor generic traffic report including direct, search & referral traffic

e.g: http://i216.photobucket.com/albums/cc53/zymurgy_bucket/reporting-tabscopy.jpg

But Ive hit the provebial buffers

Initailly i added an advanced  filter as shown here:

http://i216.photobucket.com/albums/cc53/zymurgy_bucket/custom-reporting-with-filtercopy.jpg

but the advanced filters do not stick / save. As soon as you exit the custom report the advanced filter is cleared as shown here:

http://i216.photobucket.com/albums/cc53/zymurgy_bucket/custom-reporting-filter-removedcopy.jpg

I then added a filter under a specific custom tab but the filter cascades into all the reporting tabs see below:

http://i216.photobucket.com/albums/cc53/zymurgy_bucket/custom-reporting-cascading-filterscopy.jpg

So my question is please...

"How do can you set up filters that effect the data in one reporting tab and does not cascade into the others"

Any insights welcome

[Nightwing]

Hi Doug, ive since dumped custom reports and got much more joy out of the widget dashboard reporting

[DougRoberts]

I had the same issue and ended up creating separate reports. It's not exactly intuitive behaviour!