Site defaults

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The options on the Site defaults tab are used when adding new sites to UpdatePatrol. The settings you specify on this tab will be used as default values on the 'Add new site' window when adding new sites. See Add a site for descriptions of the options.

 

General

 

 

 

Option name

Description

Group

Default group new sites become a member of.

Use last selected group after adding first site

Subsequent sites added will use the group you selected for the previously added site.

Show removed text

Check this option to highlight removed text on the page

Include site in scheduled and batch checks

Check this option to include this site in scheduled or batch checks

Send notification by email

Check this option to send an email with detected changes

Save page to disk

Check this option to save the changed page to disk

Action on popup

Specify what you want to happen if the page tries to open a pop-up window when you view it in the internal browser.

Remove all Javascript from page

Check this option to remove all Javascript code from the page so it doesn't try executing it when you view the page in the internal browser.

Remove Javascript by keyword

Check this option to remove Javascript that matches the keywords configured on the Scripts tab.

 

 

 

Notifications

 

By default you are notified when text on a page is changed or added. Use the options here to get notification about other changes as well.

 

 

 

Option name

Description

An error is detected when checking the page

Check this option if you want to receive a notification if an error occurs while checking the page, e.g. caused by download problem or page parsing problem.

Text is removed from the page

Check this option if you want to receive a notification when text is removed from the page.

Links (address or text) are changed

Check this option if you want to receive a notification when links or text associated with links are changed.

Frames or iframes are added

Check this option if you want to receive a notification when new frames or iframes are added to the page. Pro version only.

Frames or iframes are removed

Check this option if you want to receive a notification when frames or iframes are removed from the page. Pro version only.

Links are added

Check this option if you want to receive a notification when new links are added to the page. Pro version only.

Links are removed

Check this option if you want to receive a notification when links are removed from the page. Pro version only.

 

 

Save to disk

 

The options on the Save to disk tab are used as default values when you select to have changed pages saved to disk. You set these options on each site and you can select to override these default options as well. Pro version only.

 

 

 

Option name

Description

Save in folder

The name of the folder the pages will be saved in.

Changes filename

Filename of the file containing the changed page.

Errors filename

Filename of the file containing error information if the page failed to download.

Mark as read when page has been saved to disk

If enabled, the "New" indicator will be removed from the site when the page has been successfully saved to disk.

 

Keywords

You can use the following keywords in the filenames and have them replaced by current change/site values. Notice that all keywords must be written in lowercase.

 

Keyword

Description

%url%

Page URL

%name%

Page name

%group%

Page group name

%id%

Page ID. Internally assigned unique identifier.

%date%

Date of change detection in the format YYYY-MM-DD

%sdate%

Date of change detection in the shorter format YYYYMMDD

%time%

Time of change detection in the format HH-MI-SS

%stime%

Time of change detection in the shorter format HHMISS

 

 



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