What is a session task?

Session tasks are used to schedule session data extractions based on servers, data set, and data filters, and then store the data.

Session data provides an accurate representation of the customer's interaction during a visit to your website. A session task is used to extract session data into a PDF file.

When you create a session task, you are extracting the session data. You need to decide on the following scheduling and extraction options:
Table 1. Extracting Session Data Decisions
Decisions Which tab to look in
When do you want to run the extraction task?
  • Schedule
  • Daily extract options
  • Extraction period
  • Post extraction commands
 General
Where do you want to store the extracted session data? Session Archiving Server
What data filters do you want to use? Data Filters
Where do you want the session data to be archived? Destination
Do you want to password protect the session data? Digital Signatures
What data fields do you want to displayed in the PDF? PDF page fields
Who should be notified when the session data task have been completed? Notifications
What type of session do you want to extract?
  • Single hit sessions
  • Session based on a search string
 Data Set

Depending on the type of scheduling, Unica Discover Session Archiving waits the following time periods:

  • For repeated tasks such as daily or hourly task, Unica Discover Session Archiving verifies that the session indexes were updated at least 1 hour after the end of the configured extract time.

    If an hourly job is unable to complete in the allotted number of tries, it is skipped and is not reattempted. The next hour, the job is run to collect that hour's data.

  • Run Now tasks do not check the indexes.