Feature: defining goals with a segment

[diosmosis]

It occurred to me that some goals can be defined by segments, eg "download URL == ..." (or even the normal ones "page URL contains ..."). It might be useful to be able to define "virtual goals" whose conversion criteria comes from a segment, then have a command or UI feature to re-attribute conversions for those goals. Would allow being able to change goal definitions and allow users to define all sorts of goals.

[tsteur]

Sounds good. There might be couple problems though. For example you can't know the region or refer, campaign, custom variables/dimensions, device, etc they had the time this goal happened. You would only know the values from the end of the visit (we copy most of the current values from log_visit into log_conversion). And you can't really evaluate the segment on each request.

It's more like you could just create a custom report based on the segment and have almost the same.