topic Is it possible to disable use of content description in auto-instrumented user actions in Real User Monitoring

Is it possible to disable use of content description in auto-instrumented user actions

JoshuaBradbury — Fri, 30 Sep 2022 11:44:03 GMT

Hello,

When using the oneagent sdk in our android app we utilise the content description of views to help users with low vision know sensitive information that is on the screen. However with auto-instrumentation we have found that this sensitive information is being picked up by dynatrace and we would like to avoid this. We can manually override the user action names, however with the scale of the app, and with how the app grows over time, we can't be sure we will always be able to make sure we are properly overriding these instances and would like to know if it's possible for a config option to disable the use of the content description in the auto-instrumented user action name generation.

Cheers,

Joshua Bradbury

Re: Is it possible to disable use of content description in auto-instrumented user actions

Yosi_Neuman — Tue, 14 Dec 2021 11:55:26 GMT

Hi @JoshuaBradbury

Can Extend and modify user actions or understand how User action naming works in android help you here?

HTH

Yos

Re: Is it possible to disable use of content description in auto-instrumented user actions

JoshuaBradbury — Tue, 14 Dec 2021 15:56:24 GMT

unfortunately not, it talks about it using the content description, but no way of skipping that as an option, but I appreciate the help!

Re: Is it possible to disable use of content description in auto-instrumented user actions

uros_djukic1 — Fri, 17 Dec 2021 10:20:59 GMT

Hello everyone,
I confirm the answer is NO at the moment. The only way to do this, it is to override manually the name as you are doing well. Or use standalone manual instrumentation.
Uros