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katie_b
Helper ⭐️
July 22, 2019
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Reporting on Multi-Select Picklist Fields

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  • July 22, 2019
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We have 6 multi-select picklist fields we are currently using to track feature limitations that are blocking our customers from moving to the next generation of our product. These fields represent 6 main product lines and have anywhere from 3-16 feature options each. I have a few requests from our team to report on these items in the following formats...

1. A pie or bar chart showing the total number of accounts that have each feature selected

2. Report of the top 5 features across all 6 product lines

The issues I'm running into are 1. These are 6 different fields and 2. Gainsight doesn't allow us to group by or aggregate multi-select fields. The only reporting option I've been able to come up with is just adding all 6 fields in the 'show me' section of a report along with Account Name and enabling row grouping by account. The only way I see today to show a count by feature is to filter by an individual feature and create a widget for each one....which isn't really an option because there are too many to even put them all on one dashboard. Other thoughts/ideas to better report on these fields? I'm open to creating new fields/formats if needed, I just don't want to go to all that work for an experiment that may or may not give me what I need. Also, any info from Gainsight as to WHY we don't have more options to maniputale and report on multi-select fields?

80 replies

anirbandutta
Expert ⭐️
May 19, 2022

Blast from the past this thread. @rakesh if you could pl take a look during your day.

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Contributor ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
July 19, 2022

I’m sure if the solution is implemented it would be applied to similar report types equally, but we would like to leverage the Packed Bubble report type for this. Crossing our fingers for something soon!

iainr
Contributor ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
July 28, 2022

Adding my voice to the demand for this. Surprised it’s been open so long for something that seems a fairly fundamental reporting capability tbh!

Contributor ⭐️⭐️⭐️
September 7, 2022

Adding our support for this request as well! This is currently impacting our ability to report on key information for our customers when capturing risks.

sarahmiracle
VIP ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
September 7, 2022

I’m about to launch a multi-select picklist for products purchased in our instance with the goal of improving reporting and now I’m scared about the implications this will have on reporting 😓

Customer Success Systems Admin @ Amplitude, 3x Gainsight CS Ops Product Council Member
TMaier
Helper ⭐️
September 7, 2022

The gist is that without applying some kind of workaround, if a customer purchases Product A and Product B you will have a single column for “A;B” with a quantity of 1 vs individual columns for Product A and Product B with 1 each.

 

If two more customers come in and one purchases Product A only, and the other purchases Product B only, you will now have 3 columns for “A” , “B”, and “A;B”. It’s no fun!

lyne_therien
Helper ⭐️
September 7, 2022

@sai_ram Do you have any update on this? 2 years ago we learned that this was on the roadmap. As it fallen off by chance? Thanks!

bradley
Expert ⭐️
September 7, 2022

@sai_ram Do you have any update on this? 2 years ago we learned that this was on the roadmap. As it fallen off by chance? Thanks!

He’s not at Gainsight anymore :) Paging @anirbandutta to the rescue!

anirbandutta
Expert ⭐️
September 8, 2022

Thanks Bradley. Let me try to get a sense of where we are at with this and share.

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Azad
Gainsight Employee ⭐️
Gainsight Employee ⭐️
September 9, 2022

Hey Everyone, 

First of all thank you soo much for the insights here on the need to have picklist aggregatable, I have started discussions with the engg team to look into possibilities of enabling this, since as of today we do not even allow to group by existing combination groups. 

I will have more updates for everyone towards the end of the month. 

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