<div class="opt_help_box" id="opt_helpbox" <?php echo ($GLOBALS['opt_show_help']==0)?'style="display:none;"':''?>> <h1 class="opt_help_h1">What You Can Do On The Visitor Filtering Page <a class="button-primary" style="float:right;cursor:pointer;" onClick="jQuery('#opt_helpbox').slideUp();jQuery('#opt_help_button').text('Help');">Close Help</a></h1> <div class="opt_help_toc"> 1. <a href="#1">What Is A Filter</a><br /> 2. <a href="#2">Create, Edit, And Delete Filters</a><br /> <a name="1"></a> 3. <a href="#3">Updating All Filtered Stats</a><br /> </div> <h1 class="opt_help_h1">1. What Is A Filter <a class="button-primary" style="float:right;cursor:pointer;" onClick="jQuery('#opt_helpbox').slideUp();jQuery('#opt_help_button').text('Help');">Close Help</a></h1> <div class="opt_help_text_container"> <strong>Filter's Separate Undesirable Data From Legitimate Data</strong> <a name="2"></a> <div class="opt_help_text">All visitors and impressions data can be filtered so that you can hide stats either from undesirable sources or nonhuman bots. Filters specifically allow you to check each visitor against a database of IP Addresses and User Agents (Normally the browser or bot name) to hide visitors automatically from your stats. The stats are not lost however and can be viewed anytime using the <em>Hide Filtered Stats</em> dropdown that is on almost every page.</div> </div> <h1 class="opt_help_h1">2. Create, Edit, And Delete Filters <a class="button-primary" style="float:right;cursor:pointer;" onClick="jQuery('#opt_helpbox').slideUp();jQuery('#opt_help_button').text('Help');">Close Help</a></h1> <div class="opt_help_text_container"> <strong>Creating A Filter</strong> <div class="opt_help_text">Click <em>Create Filter</em> underneath the title of the page to create a Filter. You have to supply either an IP Address, a User Agent or both to create a filter. Adding a filter does not automatically update your current stats to reflect the new filter, for information on that please check section 3 below.</div> <strong>Creating A Filter From The Visitor Log</strong> <div class="opt_help_text">You can also add new Filters on any <em>Visitor Log</em> page that has a <em>Show Visitor Info</em> column. Once you are viewing visitor information you can choose to add either the IP Address, User Agent, or Both of that visitor to the filter database.</div> <strong>Editing A Filter</strong> <div class="opt_help_text">You can edit any filter by clicking the <em>Edit Filter</em> link in the <em>Actions</em> column. Editing will also not automatically update your current statistics.</div> <strong>Deleting A Filter</strong> <a name="3"></a> <div class="opt_help_text">Filters are <strong>deleted permanently</strong> whenever you click the <em>Delete</em> button in the <em>Actions</em> column, so be careful what you click!</div> </div> <h1 class="opt_help_h1">3. Updating All Filtered Stats <a class="button-primary" style="float:right;cursor:pointer;" onClick="jQuery('#opt_helpbox').slideUp();jQuery('#opt_help_button').text('Help');">Close Help</a></h1> <div class="opt_help_text_container"> <strong>When To Update Filtered Stats</strong> <div class="opt_help_text">Statistics you already have aren't automatically updated whenever you change your filter settings because the method to update them must take into account all statistics you have already accumulated. This can be an extremely time consuming operation if you have a lot of tracking data. In order to make it so you don't accidentally kill your server you must initiate an update manually. You should use the <em>Update All Filtered Stats</em> feature only after making extensive changes to your Filter settings.</div> <strong>How To Update Filtered Stats</strong> <div class="opt_help_text">After clicking on <em>Update All Filtered Stats</em> you will be taken to a page where you can confirm you meant to run the <em>Update Process</em>. If you choose to go through with the update it may take several minutes to crawl through all of your previous tracking data and sync it up with the current filters. So please be careful when you run this process and keep an eye on all status messages from the system.</div> </div> </div> 