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I wonder if the WebLog Analyzer software could translate a URL table into a friendly terms. My site is based on URL parameters such www.site.com?manuf=3&prod=56. It means for instance the user is asking for the product ZapWhashing Machine from the manufacturer GeneralEletric. All pages and queries reports show ?manuf=3&prod=56. Obviously they would be more friendly if they could show ZapWhashing machine from GeneralEletric. Why do they not implement a kind of URL table translation ?????? Thanks, Antonio Testa, Sao Paulo, Brazil - antonio@testa.adv.br
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Michael
The program can retrieve page titles and show them along with URLs. You can enable this setting in Profile Properties > General.
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The program can retrieve page titles and show them along with URLs. You can enable this setting in Profile Properties > General.
This is not enough since the page is unique for a vary wide range of possibilities according to the parameters received. Thanks anyway. Antonio Testa.
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Michael
Do you mean that there may be multiple URLs with different parameters (e.g. www.site.com?manuf=3&prod=56 and www.site.com?manuf=3&prod=17) but with the same title, so it is necessary to specify unique description to each such URL manually?
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testa
Exactly. That programming technic is widely used. You have only one ASP page to handle many different products, manufacturers, etc according to the query string parameters. I am really suprised no one else asked for that kind of query translation table before !
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Michael
Thank you for clarification. We'll consider adding support for custom URL -> title conversion table in future versions of the program.
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testa
Michael,

Thanks for your answer and for consider the suggestion in the future versions. Please look at the bellow images, just to make sure we are talking about the samething. Of course the translated page is much more friendly than the first one.

Click to see one original page from WebLog Expert Software

Click to see the same page after URL and Queries translation

Best regards, Antonio Testa
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Michael
If we implement this feature, it will look the same way as retrieved page titles are shown now, you can view a sample at http://www.weblogexpert.com/sample/ (Access Statistics > Pages report).
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testa
No if you have only one page, so one title only. The goal is change the query strings for the real meaning of them. Thanks again. Antonio Testa
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Michael
The program can be set to show query strings in file names so it's not a problem. E.g. it's possible to show URLs like http://www.barcodenet.com.br/?f=5&p=M... instead of just http://www.barcodenet.com.br/ . In this case if titles will be specified for URLs like http://www.barcodenet.com.br/?f=5&p=M..., they will be shown in reports along with these URLs. It will be possible to get a report similar to the one you provided as sample thanks to the custom reports supported by the program.

However, there is also another way we can implement this feature and probably it is a better way. The custom reports available in the Professional and Enterprise editions (Option -> Report > Tables) already support conversion tables for individual query parameters. E.g. it is possible to create a table that will show "LS-4278" instead of f=5&p=SL-427x and "S-600Plus" instead of f=5&p=MX-P60x based on one query parameter ("p" in this case) but it's not possible to specify conversion rules for full query strings. We'll consider adding support for conversion tables for queries too.

As for now you can find information on custom report tables in the program help. When you create a new custom table, you'll need to choose "Query parameter value" as program data and click the "Custom..." to the right of this field to specify the conversion rules. Maybe it will all help you until we implement some kind of query or URL conversion tables.