Custom Events could be so much more useful if we were able to group by Event Name.
Many times, custom events are used to be a shortcut to group many events together. For example, if you’ve got these individual events:
- `Account Profile Clicked`
- `Account Summary Clicked`
- `Account Billing Clicked`
rather than make everyone in the org know how to query for all of these, the natural desire is to make a custom event “Any Account Area Clicked” with this definition:
- Event Name glob match “Account * Clicked”
However the usefulness of this is quite limited in practice due Amplitude’s limitation. You can use it in charts but you can’t do a group by to get the breakdown of clicked by original event.
this limitation now forces our entire organization to know Amplitude glob matches or at minimum deal with complexity of creating segmentation chart to include all the events.
The best solution here is for amplitude to allow grouping by event name with custom events. This would honestly be a huge huge upgrade for everyone.
