Current situation
CSV exports are one of my least favorite parts of the Insided platform and unfortunately it's one I have to use at least weekly. I think development on the CSV exports part is on an indefinite 'not now', so we'll have to find our own solutions for the fact that a week starts on a Sunday and the exports are always an hour off 😏.
There's one improvement I'll just leave here though for future reference. Currently, requesting CSV exports is a manual process. This is laborious and user unfriendly - I bang my head against the wall on a weekly basis, trying to find improvements. Looking at your average analytics suite, there's often a way to automate this.
https://www.newmediacampaigns.com/blog/google-analytics-email-reports
https://marketing.adobe.com/resources/help/en_US/sc/user/index.html?f=scheduling
Idea
It would be quite helpful to automate exports in 2 ways:
- Schedule a certain export.
- Send the csv file to an e-mail address on schedule.
What's the use case?
1. Waiting for exports is a silly hurdle that can be taken away with automation.
2. Huge exports take up a lot of time and they can be frequently useful. Scheduling exports can save that time.
3. There's no easy way to select a time range that makes sense (again: a week starts on a Sunday), so I need to fiddle with the date selector every single week. Timing an export would help: I would request an export for a full year right when the week has ended (on a Sunday).