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Custom groups

A custom group is used to group attribute elements and aggregate results in a report. This report is made up of custom group elements that consist of a header and filter condition. Each custom group element can have its own banding or filtering condition. A custom group allows us to group elements with the same or different attributes and metrics.

In the following example, if a data warehouse contain different countries but you want to group those countries by region, you can use custom groups; the American region custom group element displays countries such as Canada, the USA, and so on as other custom group elements:

A custom group ...