Omniture SiteCatalyst Instances/Search metric and conversion variables - web-analytics

We have a weird reporting inconsistency between two Report Suites in Omniture's SiteCatalyst. Currently we have a conversion variable that is tracking keyword values that are coming from search engines using crossVisitParticipation and channelManager plugins.
When we run the Traffic Source" report that shows "Search Keyword - All" broken down by the conversion variable one report always shows "N/A" values and the the other doesn't. Somehow one report suite is not relating the search engines report to my conversion variable and the other is. Any idea why?
Here are some screenshots:
Report with "N/A"
Link http://i48.tinypic.com/1zwi4b9.png
Report with Actual Values
Link http://i46.tinypic.com/egbnmh.png

I've seen this before too. I really suggest you just call Omniture client care. So many things in SiteCatalyst are configurable by Omniture, I am sure that it is the way your setup is configured to give this kind of result in your reports.

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I'm trying to create an analysis based on errors, so I hope I have little to no value in this analysis but I need a column selector to switch between different measures which can have an error.
When I switch to a measure which doesn't contain any errors, I get a nice 'no results' message but also my column selector disappears. How do you keep this even when the analysis results in 'no results' or maybe another way to work around this.
Thanks!
a) "Back" in the browser :-)
b) "Clear My Customization" in a dashboard context
c) Instead of a column selector, you can move that logic to a dashboard prompt which switches out the measure in the analysis itself. Since the prompt isn't in-line with the analysis code but a stand-alone object it will stay unaffected by "No results".
You'd say '"Measure"."#{vMeasureSelection}{Count}" in the analysis column formula and then have the presentation variable value from a prompt passed in there.

free-jQgrid "loading" message still remains

Since my app is online for to be tested by customer, I often meet this problem and I have to click several times on "Tiers" menu to hope it will disappear and give hand.
Here is a snapshot of the trouble :
WHen I use my app on local server (wampserver) I never meet this trouble.
I have several grids in my app and none displays this message online.
Firebug says "jquery.jqgrid.min.js" has error in line 344 (?). Used version is 4.13.5-pre dated 2016-08-27 and hosted server runs with php 5.6.8
Does somebody already met this type of trouble ?
If somebody can take some time to help me, I can give by email login and pass to test app online.
Many thanks for your kind help.
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Thank you for reporting the issue. It would be helpful if you report the error using jquery.jqgrid.src.js instead of jquery.jqgrid.min.js, but I suppose that the only place in the code, which could produce the error is the piece of code with if ($input[0].tagName.toUpperCase() === "SELECT" && $input[0].multiple) {... (see here).
I posted the fix just now, which should eliminate the error. It includes the additional test if ($input.length > 0) {...} (see the line). I would still recommend you to examine the name and index values in colModel of your grids. It seems that your current code uses the filter with names or index, which is not from colModel or which uses some special characters. It's the only reason of the error, which one can see in console of your picture.

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UFT's Insight technology uses images in order to identify objects, the fact that it identifies button x does not mean that it has any intrinsic understanding that it contains the text "x".
In Insight the similarity property is used in order to decide how dissimilar a control has to be from the captured image in order for it not to constitute a match. Similarity isn't a regular identification property as we are used to. This is why you get the same value for each test object (it doesn't mean that the specific object supports this property).
Regarding GetVisibleText, UFT uses OCR in order to extract the text. You can specify which language you're expecting in the last parameter.
In any case none of these things should fail due to not being able to find a file. I have two thoughts on the matter:
Are you using descriptive programming to identify the InsightObject (see link further on) if so perhaps the image file you specified isn't found?
What OCR Mechanism are you using? (Tools ⇒ Options ⇒ GUI Testing ⇒ Text Recognition), perhaps the mechanism you're using isn't installed correctly and this is causing the failure, try using a different OCR mechanism.
You can read a bit more about Insight here.

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I am writing a complex application (a compiler analysis). To debug it I need to examine the application's execution trace to determine how its values and data structures evolve during its execution. It is quite common for me to generate megabytes of text output for a single run and sifting my way through all that is very labor-intensive. To help me manage these logs I've written my own library that formats them in HTML and makes it easy to color text from different code regions and indent code in called functions. An example of the output is here.
My question is: is there any better solution than my own home-spun library? I need some way to emit debug logs that may include arbitrary text and images and visually structure them and if possible, index them so that I can easily find the region of the output I'm most interested. Is there anything like this out there?
Regardless you didn't mentioned a language applied, I'd like to propose apache Log4XXX family: http://logging.apache.org/
It offers customizable details level as well as tag-driven loggers. GUI tool (chainsaw) can be combined with "old good" GREP approach (so you see only what you're interested in at the moment).
Colorizing, search and filtering using an expression syntax is available in the latest developer snapshot of Chainsaw. The expression syntax also supports regular expressions (using the 'like' keyword).
Chainsaw can parse any regular text log file, not just log files generated by log4j.
The latest developer snapshot of Chainsaw is available here:
http://people.apache.org/~sdeboy
The File, load Chainsaw configuration menu item is where you define the 'format' and location of the log file you want to process, and the expression syntax can be found in the tutorial, available from the help menu.
Feel free to email the log4j users list if you have additional questions.
I created a framework that might help you, https://github.com/pablito900/VisualLogs

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I'm new to SSRS, so I apologize if this question is too simple:
I have a report which accepts a parameter called "Amount". I want to constrain valid inputs to currency values >= 0, and pop open an error message if the user enters improper values.
I don't want to validate inputs in my stored procedure and throw exceptions, because SSRS displays a very generic "Query execution failed for 'someTable'" message to users who access the report from another machine, and my business does not want to turn on the "Enable Remote Errors" flag.
How do I add input validation to report parameters and notify users of bad input?
Yes, I've googled around, but haven't had much luck. Thanks in advance :)
Okay, how about this?
All you have in SSRS, really, is the SQL query and expressions in report fields.
Perhaps you could add a big, red text box at the top of the report for your error message, and give it an expression like '=IIf(Parameters!Amount.Value < 0, "Error: Invalid Amount", "")'.
Then go to your table's "Hidden" property and give it the expression "=Parameters!Amount.Value < 0"
You could also add into your query's where clause and add "AND #Amount >= 0" so you aren't fetching from the database when there's an error.
It's possible to make report parameters in SSRS that are based on a particular list or a lookup query but I don't think you can apply a regex or something like that.
Instead you might consider separating your report into two panels, one which displays your report and one which displays an error and then you create an assembly with a function in it that validates the parameters for the report before it is run. If the validate parameters function is successful you hide the error panel and show the report panel, if not you do the opposite.
I don't think there's a whole lot you can do in the reporting tool itself. It's pretty rudimentary.
However, you can provide an ASP.net web interface or a form that you can use to ask the users for the parameter values in any format .NET allows, and use the ReportViewer control to display the report. It sounds daunting, but it's actually pretty straight-forward, particularly if you already have a project you can build on.
Microsoft gives tutorials for using the ReportViewer controls.

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