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Automatically Pulling Franchise Name from Branch Path in Reports

  • April 15, 2025
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Hi everyone! We’re the corporate office for a gym brand with franchisees around the world. Our Branch Path is structured like this:

Type (Franchise, International, etc) → Region → Franchise Name → Gym Name

When running reports, the only way we’ve found to pull the Franchise Name is by using the full “Branch Path” field—but that shows the entire path, which isn’t always helpful.

Right now, I’m using a “Text to Columns” workaround in Excel to extract just the Franchise Name, but that’s not scalable—especially since not all our report users are Excel-savvy.

To add more context: users are added via an automation that imports a CSV file from each franchise’s payroll system. We have over 60 franchise groups, and asking each one to have their payroll company update their custom report to include the Franchise Name in a custom user field would be an incredibly heavy lift.

Is there any way to either:

  • Automatically populate a custom user field with the Franchise Name based on the Branch Path?
    OR

  • Include only a specific level of the Branch Path (just the Franchise Name) in reports?

Looking for any easier or quicker options—thank you in advance for your help!

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lrnlab
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  • Hero III
  • April 15, 2025

in most reports you can include the branch name and/or code, not the path (think this is only an option with the user export on the User Management page). This is from the report called, Users - Courses

 


emily.mccarthy
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Can you share which report you are currently using to extract this data?

 

I think the issues with ​@lrnlab work around is that you are looking to pull the Third Branch Level, not the fourth which from my understanding, is what would primarily be pulled in your exports. 

in most reports you can include the branch name and/or code, not the path (think this is only an option with the user export on the User Management page). This is from the report called, Users - Courses

 

 


lrnlab
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  • Hero III
  • April 16, 2025

Agree if that is the case where you need the parent branch name and not the actual branch the user is located in, then the branch name path is your best option. The only other way I can think of would be to look at the APIs to see if there is an option there to export the branch path in a more user-friendly way.