Creating a step attribute

When you select a JSON item in Replay and choose to create a step attribute, the Event Manager is opened in the browser window currently opened to the Portal.

Note: Depending on your browser type and configuration, you can manually switch over to the Portal window.

Step attributes are commingled with hit attributes. They do not belong to a special category. What defines an attribute as a step attribute are the properties that are listed.

Table 1. Key Properties:
Attribute Properties Description
Use Step Pattern For step attributes, the Use Step Pattern radio button is selected for you, which enables specification of the xpath to the node whose value you want to track.
  • When a step pattern is used to identify an attribute, the check is completed by using a case-sensitive search by default. If you choose to change the type of pattern tag to a step pattern, the existing case-sensitive settings are preserved.
Step Attribute Path The Step Attribute Path value contains the node information to uniquely identify the JSON value to acquire in the attribute. For the preceding example, the path is: 

.sessions[0].message.exception.description
This provides a unique path to the description value for the exception message that was submitted from a client framework to Discover.
Note: You can complete the same Post-Match Operations on a step attribute that you can complete on a hit attribute.