Verifying content extraction for a custom field

Verify that the system extracts content from your web traffic according to the rules that you have configured (you can verify content extraction only for HTTP request or HTTP response data sources).

To verify content extraction for a custom field

1. In a

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   , point to the Administration > Data flow settings, and then click Custom fields.
2. Click the custom field for which you want to verify content extraction.
3. Under the Data source test, click the Record icon.
    The system captures the next 100 hits that match the extraction rule before terminating automatically.

4. To review the results, click the Inspect icon.
   
   The system displays all the captured URLs, the date and time that the content was captured. Click any of the URLs to display the content with the match and extracted contents highlighted as in the following table.
   
   Text highlighting options
   
   

   Color	Description
   ...html string found string html string...	The initial string that matched the rule.
   ...html string extracted string html string...	The part of the content that has been extracted.

5. To purge test results from the system, click Purge test result. 

   Note

   If a test is active when you purge the test results, the test automatically stops.

6. (For response content only) To load the captured content into a secondary window, click View page in browser. 

   Note

   Loading content in a browser causes the browser to make requests for any supporting content (such as images). This generates traffic on the target servers that the content was captured from. Consider this consequence before using this feature.

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