In applications, in User action analysis, when we filter by "User action name", it gives us a list of possible user-actions. But we can fill it by name, and it creates a tilde operator like seen below. The problem is that it doesn't work like in other parts of the Platform UI, and gives no results at all.
This would be great to join several user-actions in the analysis. Is it not possible?
Dear Antonio,
While it looks like you can filter all user actions by only parts of the name. please compare illustration 1 and 2, it's actually not the case. User action name only filters for exact names (i.e., matches).
For example, when I filtered for "change", where multiple user action names with "change" in its name exist, when hitting enter, the result will be empty! Thus, the tilde does not mean you can "group" user actions by parts of their names.
To group user actions you currently can use "user action properties" as kind of tags and use the user action properties filter, which in fact works as a contains filter, to group user actions.
To make this more concrete, let's look at an example where you have a user action property that stores the journey names of all bookings of our easytravel travel platform. By using the name and entering Paris I now only see user actions with Paris in its journey name.
Hey,
Tilde - Yes I already forwarded this to the development team and we gonna discuss it! Personally, I agree that it should not be there in that case and that it's misleading!.
Regarding action properties. You can use the URL or also often very popular the referrer into an action property. To get the current URL you could simply use a JavaScript variable as source and use "window.location". Or what do you exactly mean by "derive"?
Regarding the last sentence. In general yes. Maybe let's go one step backward and let me ask you an additional (but now that I think about it probably more important question). Where do you want to use the grouping? Is it a calculated metric you want to base it on? Or is it simply for the sake of looking at all actions in that list?
- The former - due to techn. limitation - will only be available over the properties workaround and such a product idea already existed and I closed it with that workaround.
- To just "search" and look for actions with a contains filter in that list then use the filter bar and change the appearing drop down to "in all user actions" (see screenshot).
- To check user actions based on pages? Then you will like something we release in early Q1, where we add "page views" to Dynatrace, automatically grouping your user actions per page! And yes they then will also be available as filters and to create calculated metrics!
To conclude. Unless there is any other reason why you want to group user actions other than the first two mentioned in my list, then I have to say please don't create an RFE, since you would receive the same answer and I'd have to set it to "not planned".
kind regards
Thomas
PS: yes all the screenshot contain tabs for displaying user actions and key user actions, which is a little papercut we release with 1.205 :). So don't be surprised if you don't find the tabs yet on your system ;).
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