Next steps
About this task
After you completed your event definition, you should complete the following steps to finish specifying your event.
Procedure
- If the event is intended to be active immediately, verify that you selected the Active check box in the event definition.
- Save the event in draft form. Click Save Draft.
- Test the event before you commit the changes. See Event Tester.
- Create a test session in the live web application, which triggers the event. Be sure to close the session by logging out or exiting the web application.
- After testing, save the event to the database for use by the available Canisters. See Discover Event Manager.
- For events that are configured for display in the Portal:
- You can generate a report using the event and its specified report
groups to verify that data is being processed all the way through
the system. Note: Data may not appear immediately in the generated report.
- You can generate a report using the event and its specified report
groups to verify that data is being processed all the way through
the system.
Results
Note: If you enabled automatic creation of Anomaly Detections, a Anomaly Detection is immediately created and enabled to track changes in values
for your new event after your changes are committed to the server.
Depending on the type of event, you may want to disable this Anomaly Detection.
- The new Anomaly Detection is created after the new event is committed to the server. No record of a changed or new Anomaly Detection is displayed in the Anomaly Detection tab.
- See Manage Events - Anomaly Detection Tab.
- For more information about auto-creation of Anomaly Detections, see Data management for Anomaly Detections.