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Configuring HCL Discover involves setting up and managing Discover user authorization and configuring Discover server components and services that process captured data.
HCL Discover Event Manager Manual
Manage Events - Events Tab
Through the Events tab in the Discover Event Manager, you can define, edit, test, and organize events to monitor specific conditions in your visitors' sessions. Discover events provide a flexible and powerful mechanism for tracking at the most granular level what is happening during a visitor's session.
Configuring Portal Access to Events
Configuring Events to be Searchable and Reportable in the Portal
Availability of facts in the Portal

Configuration
Configuring HCL Discover involves setting up and managing Discover user authorization and configuring Discover server components and services that process captured data.
- HCL Discover Configuration Manual
- HCL Discover Event Manager Manual
  - Discover Event Manager
    HCL Discover Event Manager provides the user interface for defining the event objects used to monitor your visitors' sessions. Here you can configure the events, hit attributes, dimensions, session attributes, alerts, and deviations to monitor customer success and struggle with your web application.
  - Getting Started with Discover Events
    Discover events provide the mechanisms for monitoring mission-critical metrics and other indicators of your web application's performance, including software errors, failures to complete transactions, customer struggles, and more. Through Discover events, IT staff, business managers, and executives can keep tabs on critical aspects of the overall customer experience.
  - Manage Events - Events Tab
    Through the Events tab in the Discover Event Manager, you can define, edit, test, and organize events to monitor specific conditions in your visitors' sessions. Discover events provide a flexible and powerful mechanism for tracking at the most granular level what is happening during a visitor's session.
    - Overview
    - Event Wizard
    - Editing an Event
    - Deleting an Event
    - Special Event Types
    - Configuring Portal Access to Events
    - Event Tester
    - Event History
    - Change History
    - Event Hierarchy
      In the Event Manager Event tab, you can review the hierarchy for a specific event. Items that are listed above other items are dependent on the items below them being triggered. Dependent items are listed higher in the hierarchy. Antecedents that are listed below an event in the hierarchy.
    - Purging Event Data
      If needed, you can purge data for a selected event and all related report groups and dimensions. Suppose when you are configuring events, you discover that you captured inaccurate or bad data for the event. You can purge the data for a selected event and all recorded dimensional data that is related to the event.
    - Dicover Standard Events
    - Default Customer Events
    - WorkingSet of Events
    - Distance Events and sequence Events
    - Recommendations
    - Distance Events
    - sequence Events
    - UAParser events
      In earlier versions of Discover, if you execute a replay using Extended User Agent, it provided information like:
    - Step-Based Eventing
      Through step-based eventing, you can create Discover events of these user interface events that are generated by your rich internet application.
    - Eventing for Usability
      HCL Discover Usability enables the capture of usability information from the visitor's web experience, as detected in the client and transmitted to Discover. This information is anonymously collected for reporting purposes. Events can be used to specify specific conditions, such as a period of time, to record information.
    - Mobile Events
      Discover provides a set of Mobile events to support the tracking of user interface events that are captured through a Discover client framework. These objects can be used as the basis for building other event objects for tracking the specifics of your client application.
    - Goal Based Dimensions
      By default, Discover events and event-related objects, such as dimensions, are recorded as soon as they occur. This immediate responsiveness ensures that event activity and contextual data are captured as a snapshot of the current state of the session or application.
    - Discover Standard Event Object Reference
  - Manage Events - Hit Attributes Tab
    When processing hit data, the Discover event engine searches each hit for patterns of text. These patterns can signify an event of interest, such as the occurrence of the word Sorry in the response, or can bracket a text string of interest, such as the value of a form field. These patterns can be explicitly specified or can be defined using the start and end tags for which an event should look when evaluating a condition or setting a value.
  - Manage Events - Dimensions Tab
    Through the Discover Event Manager, you can specify data dimensions to track metadata associated with an event. They can be considered the contextual data captured at the moment of event execution.
  - Manage Events - Session Attributes Tab
    A session attribute is a pre-defined variable that is persistent throughout the life of a Discover session. Session attributes may be used to store various data that may be referenced by events at any point during the session.
  - Manage Events - Alerts Tab
    Through the Discover Event Manager, you can define alerts that are triggered based on Discover events or Anomaly Detections. When threshold values are detected in the related event or Anomaly Detection, an alert is generated and delivered in the appropriate format to the designated recipients.
  - Manage Events - Anomaly Detection Tab
    Through the Discover Event Manager, you can indicate the events, dimensions, and ratios whose variations you wish to track over time. Through the Anomaly Detection tab, you can track the metrics that are major anomaly detections on your site.
  - Manage Events - Import-Export Tabs
    Through the Import and Export tabs, you can export a set of selected event definitions and all supporting data objects from your current system and import a set that has been exported. Import/export controls enable the easy migration of event definitions from a development environment to testing and staging environments.
  - Event Tester
    Integrated into the Discover Event Manager, the Event Tester enables you to test active events and hit attributes, even if they are saved in draft mode, against sessions that you upload to the server. This integrated tool provides a quick method for validating the event objects you define before you deploy them into the live transaction stream.
  - Advanced Mode for Events
    In Advanced Mode, you can review and modify the actual JavaScript™ function that is called to process the event.
  - Event Administration
    The section provides an overview of how events are initially installed and stored in the database and later updated based on changes in the Discover Event Manager.
- HCL Discover UI SDK Manual

Availability of facts in the Portal

When an event is configured to be active and searchable & reportable, the facts that are associated with the event may be written into the request of the hit where they occurred.

Associated with each occurrence of an event may be one or more facts. A fact contains the event, its value, and the dimensions and values for one report group. If the event is associated with multiple report groups, multiple facts are written to the request in each firing of the event.
Events that are not configured to be searchable & reportable do not generate facts in the request.

Only some facts may be marked for indexing and search.

The Tracked Event Occurrence setting for the event defines the first, last, or all occurrences of the event in the session to track. Depending on the value for this setting, the Searchable flag in the fact that is recorded in the request is set to true, thus making the fact available for indexing and search. So, you can search for the event name, event value, and dimension values that are recorded in that fact instance.
If the occurrence of the fact does not match the Tracked Event Occurrence setting and Flag Every Occurrence for Replay is set to true, the Searchable flag in the fact that is written into the request is set to false. The fact information is displayed during replay but is otherwise not searchable.

Since facts are written to the request, they cannot be separated from session data and exist in the data for as long as the session is retained.

Other components and services, such as HCL Discover Data Export, may acquire fact information independent of whether the fact is configured for display in the Portal.
If the Display in Portal setting is disabled, the fact data cannot be retrieved by searching for events through the Portal. However, you may be able to retrieve the data by searching the request for fact data. See "Searching Session Data" in the HCL Discover Manuals.
Note: To disable a fact, you must remove the report group that is associated with the event. See Manage Events - Dimensions Tab.

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