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

Tag hierarchy

When creating reports using AppScan® tags you may want to place one tag "within" another. For example, you may want a separate section for each Issue Type, and within each section a list of Issues, and for each issue a list of Variants. To do this you place the start and end tags for the "child" within the start and end tags for the "parent", as shown in the figure following.

The following repeater (loop) hierarchies are allowed:

Issue Type > Issue > Variant
Remediation Type > Remediation
Vulnerable URL > Issue Type > Issue > Variant
Remediation > Issue Type > Issue > Variant

Repeaters should be used either alone, or in one of these hierarchies. Using the repeaters in hierarchies other than these may result in an error when the report is created.

See also:

Repeaters and fields