Support Referencing and Applying Existing Advanced Segments through the API about analytics-issues HOT 4 CLOSED

There are a number of reasons as to why advanced segments should be added to 
the API.
The first and most important of which is that it allows segments to be reported 
on in
an automated manner. This will facilitate the analysis of one segment compared 
to
another. E.g. do visitors from the a particular state have a different product 
view
to purchase ratio. Currently this type of process is labourious to do via the 
UI and
hence lends itself to the API.

The second is that adding this feature will allow for scripts to be constructed 
that
can run a number of scenarios and report on the results.

E.g. which other attributes (keywords, campaigns, etc) work better for visitors 
from
each state in betting a better product view to purchase ratio.

Dynamically accessing the segments using arbitrary parameters will facilitate 
this
type of analysis.

Thanks

Rod Jacka
Mananging Director
Panalysis www.panalsyis.com

This has been added through the new "segment" parameter in the Dec, 14, 2009 
release. Docs here: 
http://code.google.com/apis/analytics/docs/gdata/gdataReferenceDataFeed.html#seg
ment

Removing an obsolete label that was used when these issues were in the 
gdata-issues project.

Changing the issue type to match the organization desired in this project.