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Punctuation and special characters not allowed in Page View Definitions

Products

Webtrends On Premises 9.x
Webtrends On Premises 8.x

Issue

New page view definitions that contain a character other than a letter or number have the character removed when saved. As a result, the licensed page view count increases (as the file type in question is not among the exclusions) but pages with the extension(s) do not display in reports as they remain unknown.

Example:

test_type

becomes

testtype

Resolution

Use the URL Search and Replace feature to remove the non-alphanumeric character so that the page view definition matches what is seen after the Search and Replace function is performed.

Example URL Search and Replace definition:

Replace from start of the first:

test_type

up to start of the next

?

with

testtype

Use of the above definition would perform the Search and Replace on the string “test_type” up to the question mark (query string delimiter) and replace it with “testtype” prior to processing file type definitions.