topic Synthetic Clickpath: Bypass an event in Synthetic Monitoring

Synthetic Clickpath: Bypass an event

munawarhossain1 — Wed, 15 May 2024 09:21:28 GMT

Hello,

Can synthetic monitor bypass an event?

Example - I've a monitor with 14 events (page by page recorded) now I want a page not to be monitored. Say page 10.

From page 9 synthetic will jump to page 11 as on the page 10 we've added reCAPTCHA validation, where synthetic bot won't be able to make & will lead to failure. Creating a false positive problem. Whereas the LIVE site would be fine.

Please assist.

Thanks

Re: Synthetic Clickpath: Bypass an event

HannahM — Wed, 15 May 2024 09:25:42 GMT

If it's an event that you will never use, I would just delete it. Otherwise you can add a Javascript event in to check if the event is needed and if it's not skip it using on of the skip clickpath events options documented here

Skip clickpath events

These methods skip events after completion of the current event.

api.skipNextSyntheticEvent()—Skips execution of the next event.
api.skipNextSyntheticEvents(n)—Skips execution of the next n consecutive events.
api.skipSyntheticEvent(eventIndex)—Skips execution of the event with the index eventIndex. Event index numbers start at 1 and match the event numbers displayed in the web UI.
api.skipSyntheticEvents(eventIndexes)—Skips execution of multiple events; the array eventIndexes specifies the indexes of events to skip, for example, api.skipSyntheticEvents([8, 9]).

Re: Synthetic Clickpath: Bypass an event

munawarhossain1 — Wed, 15 May 2024 09:56:49 GMT

Thanks Hannah

As per my example, if the event in b/w the sequence is deleted. It will mark my journey as failed.

Secondly - where to enter this api.skipNextSyntheticEvent()? is it in the script?

Re: Synthetic Clickpath: Bypass an event

HannahM — Wed, 15 May 2024 09:45:41 GMT

I'm not sure I understand. Do you need the event to be executed or skipped?

Re: Synthetic Clickpath: Bypass an event

munawarhossain1 — Wed, 15 May 2024 09:50:35 GMT

Skipped

Re: Synthetic Clickpath: Bypass an event

HannahM — Wed, 15 May 2024 10:06:44 GMT

So, if you always want to skip it, I would just delete the event. Otherwise you are adding an extra event in just to say 'skip the next event'.
If you might need the event to be executed in only certain circumstances then you can add a JavaScript event before the one you want to skip which can test whether it should be skipped or not

// Choose whether to skip next event var element = document.getElementById("CSS ID of the relevant element"); // Check to see if the element exists if (element === null) { // Element not found so skip the next event api.skipNextSyntheticEvent(); } else { // Element found, continue to execute next event }