How to Add a Web Application

This lesson explains how to create a web application so that usage on that web application can be tracked.

How to Add a Web Application

How to Add a Web Application

The web applications data view is populated with manually created web applications that the user created under Setup > Agents > Deployment > Agent Configuration > Web App Tracking. This view lists the web application name as well as the URL(which can be modified with regular expressions) that is associated with the web application.

1. Click New to Add New Web Application Record

1. Click New to Add New Web Application Record

Add a new record by clicking the New button at the bottom.

2. Enter Web Application Properties

2. Enter Web Application Properties

Enter the name of the Web Application that you want to add. This name does not have to match the URL in any way, however is recommended to avoid confusion. Enter the web url in the pattern field. Multiple patterns can be added by clicking the green plus button located to the right of the form. Regex (regular expressions) can be used in the pattern field. Click save when the information is fully filled out to save the record of the web application.

Web Application Properties

  • Name: User-defined name of the web application that will be tracked.
  • URL Patterns: Regex code that will match on the URL of the web application. Usage will be tracked for any web application that matches this pattern so it is important to define this regex code so that it only matches the desired web application.
  • Tab Caption Patterns: Regex code that will match on the text in the browser tab.
  • Favicon Patterns: Regex code that will match based on the file name of the icon shown in the browser tab.

Advanced

The Regex codes in the advanced section allow the user to identify usage on specific documents. These documents are accessed through a web browser instead of a desktop application and each document has its own unique URL. The Regex codes in this section can be matched to either the tab or the URL.

  • Document Name Pattern: Regex code that will match on the name of the web document.
  • Document GUID Pattern: Regex code that will match on the GUID(Global Unique Identifier) of the web document.
  • Provider Pattern: Regex code that will match on the web provider that is storing the web document.