Creating Event

About this task

Discover provides a building block event that detects for the presence of a ReqCancelled hit: Req Cancelled [BB-NoDim]. As a building block event, it is not searchable.

Following are some general steps for creating the event object to track request canceled hits:

Procedure

  1. Log in to the Portal as an administrator.
  2. From the Portal menu, select Configure > Event Manager.
  3. The Discover Event Manager is displayed. See "Discover Event Manager" in the Unica Discover Event Manager Manual.
  4. Click the Events tab.
  5. Click New Event.... The Add Event wizard is displayed.
  6. Configure the following properties:
    Property
    Description
    Name
    Suggest Req Cancelled Type.
    Description
    Suggest Type of canceled request: client or server.
    Evaluate
    Set to Every Hit
    Track
    Set to First Per Session, even though this is for a hit.
    Value Type
    Set to Text.
  7. Leave the other values as their defaults. Click the Condition step.
    1. In the left panel, click the Events category.
    2. Click Discover Standard Events.
    3. Select ReqCancelled [BB-NoDim]. The event is added as a condition to your Req Canceled Type event definition.
      1. From the first drop-down in the added event condition, select Value.
      2. From the condition operator drop-down, select Equals.
      3. In the third textbox, enter server.
      4. Leave the case-sensitive check box cleared.
    4. From the left panel, select ReqCancelled [BB-NoDim] again.
      1. Populate it as above, except in the third textbox enter client.
    5. In the drop-down at the top of the main configuration panel, select: 
      
Any of the following conditions must be met
    6. The Condition step is configured to test for the presence of either event condition.
  8. Click the Value tab.
    1. Click Select Item to Record....
    2. In the Select Item dialog, click the Events category.
    3. Click Discover Standard Events.
    4. Select the Req Cancelled [BB-NoDim].
    5. Leave the drop-down value as Value.
    6. The Value to record is configured to be the value of the Req Cancelled [BB-NoDim], which is set to server or client if either of the event conditions is met.
  9. You must configure the other steps of the event definition as needed for your environment.
  10. Click Save Draft.
  11. In the Events tab, click the Save Changes to commit the new event to your server.