Welcome
Welcome to the documentation for HCL AppScan Standard version 10.4.0
Getting started
This section provides a short tour of basic product features and procedures, including using the wizard to set up a scan.
Configuration
You configure a scan by choosing settings that best describe your application, and the kind of testing you want.
Manual exploring
Manual exploring enables you to explore specific parts of your application, filling in fields and forms as you go. This can be a way of ensuring that particular areas of the site are covered, and that AppScan has the information needed to complete forms correctly.
Scanning
Learn how to start a scan, and what happens during the scan; how to manually manipulate the Explore stage, and how to export the results of a scan.
Data
Data view is populated with information about the structure of the site during the Explore stage of the scan.
Issues
Issues view provides access to the results of a scan. You can view results at a high level or select specific tests or objects and access more details. These details include how to fix, requests/responses, and differences between the test variants that resulted in issues. You can manipulate the severity of issues, resend tests (with or without modifications), and create reports based on Issues.
Reports
This section describes how to generate reports from the scan results.
- Report overview
- Security reports
  The Security report provides information about security issues discovered, and you can choose from a variety of templates depending on the type of content you need.
- Industry Standard and Compliance reports
  Industry Standards reports let you know if your application complies with standards of a selected industry committee; Regulatory Compliance reports let you know if your application complies with specific regulations or legal standards.
- Delta Analysis reports
  The Delta Analysis report compares two sets of scan results and shows the difference in URLs and/or security issues that were discovered in them.
- Template-based reports
  The Template Based tab of the Create Report dialog box enables you to create reports in Microsoft® Word DOC and DOCX formats, with exactly the data you want, and the document formatting you define.
  - Creating a custom report template
    You can use field codes for defining your own custom reports to generate in MS Word.
    - Introduction to "merge fields"
    - Custom template tutorial
      This section describes how to make a simple custom template.
    - Tag hierarchy
    - Repeaters and fields
    - Field filters
  - Importing a custom template
Tools
This section explains how to use additional tools provided with HCL AppScan Standard.
Integrations
This section describes integrations of other applications with AppScan Standard:
Best practices
This section contains some best practices and use cases for advanced users.
FAQ & Troubleshooting
CLI
This section describes the syntax and options available using the Command line interface.
References
Menus and toolbar summaries, and glossary

Introduction to "merge fields"

AppScan® Merge fields fall into two categories:

Repeaters (or loops): These consist of a Start and an End tag. They do not produce any data themselves, but they "loop through" any plain fields placed between the Start and End tags, and draw the relevant data for these groups.
Example: <<AS:IssueTypeRepeaterStart>> <<AS:IssueTypeRepeaterEnd>>
This repeater loops through all IssueTypes in the scan results.
Plain fields: These consist of a single field, and they produce the actual data. (Plain fields do not necessarily have to be placed within a repeater, but they cannot have other plain fields as "children".)
Example: <<AS:IssueTypeName>>
This field represents the names of all issues found in the scan.

When you insert a plain field between the Start and End tags of an appropriate loop, a report can be created. Using the two examples above, we can create a report of all the IssueTypes found by the scan:


<<AS:IssueTypeRepeaterStart>>
 <<AS:IssueTypeName>>
<<AS:IssueTypeRepeaterEnd>>

To better understand how this works in practice, see the Custom template tutorial following.

Note: A complete list of valid merge fields can be opened by clicking Tools > Report > Template Based > View Field Reference.