Labeling Task Mining events

Application

Label

User-friendly name of the software application or website where the event occurred.

By default uses the:

For example, the standard Adobe Acrobat PDF Reader instead of Acrord32.

Document

Label

Document name in applications that is predefined for standard applications and can be defined for other document types.

Users can group similar documents together using a Label. For example, you could create a Label called Order Report Documents and use this for all Excel documents named Order_Report_{date}.

Screen

Label

Screen name within an application. This is most useful for standard applications with many screens where screens have default Labels.

If the application is focused on documents, for example in Excel, screens are not labeled as most time is spent on the main view which is the document. 

Grouping events using the Screen Label simplifies analysis by clarifying which screens most time is spent on and what is happening in those screens.

If a Label is defined for Document but not Screen Screen, setting Screen to the same value as Document is helpful for standard applications like Microsoft Word and Excel.

Using easy-to-understand screen names also helps when analyzing Task Mining data.

For example, the Workday screen is defined by URLs like .workday.com/create-invoice/. so you could use a screen name of Create invoice in Workday.

ActiveWindow

Raw

Window name displayed at the top of every window and is generally the name of the application or website or further details.

Taken from the window related to the user interaction event.

Configured in client settings and set by default to pseudonymize the Windows username.

ClipboardContent

Raw

Textual content stored in the Windows clipboard.

ClipboardContentId

Raw

Unique identifier assigned each time the clipboard content changes (EventType = 'Clipboard changed'). Used to count clipboard copy operations and to create a PQL domain table for tracking clipboard copy and paste actions in Studio.

Set to the event ID at the time of the change.All subsequent events within the same recording session share the same ClipboardContentId until the clipboard content changes again and a new ClipboardContentId is assigned.

CustomX

Raw

Optional custom user attribute, like geographic region, that can be defined in the configuration file and applied by users.

For more information, see User Attributes.

DomainName

Computed

Domain part of a URL where the raw event has a URL attribute.If the raw event has a URL attribute, the DomainName is the domain part of the URL.

For example, for URL https://www.google.com/search?q=test, the DomainName is www.google.com.

EventDescription

Computed

Human-readable event description created by concatenating a number of attributes.

For example, in Gmail, this could be a left click on Send.

EventType

Raw

Event type:

For more information, see the Event reference.

KeyboardCommand

Raw

Command key or key combination.

MousePositionX

Raw

Visualizes the X-coordinate of the mouse pointer’s position in a screenshot.

A negative value indicates that the mouse pointer is outside of the screenshot.

MousePositionY

Raw

Visualizes the Y-coordinate of the mouse pointer’s position in a screenshot.

A negative value indicates that the mouse pointer is outside of the screenshot.

ProcessName

Raw

Name of the application’s Windows OS process that was active when the user interacted with their machine.

Typically this is the ‘technical application name’, such as ‘saplogon’.

ScreenshotId

Raw

File name of the screenshot related to the event, if screenshots have been captured (optional).

SessionId

Raw

Unique ID of the Task Mining session where a session is the period of time from starting to stopping Task Mining.

Starting and pausing can be done by the user via the start/stop buttons or automatically depending on settings.

SystemUser

Raw

Windows user name of the active user who interacted with the computer.

Pseudonymized by default. For more information, see client settings.

TimeDelta

Computed

Amount of time the user ‘spent’ on an event, calculated in seconds based on the timestamp of the next event minus the timestamp of the current event.

TimestampLocal

Raw

When the event was detected in local time.

TimestampUTC

Raw

When the event was detected in UTC.

Url

Raw

URL of the website that is currently opened in the tab that triggered the even

Availability depends on the application used. For more information, see Browser extensions overview.

UserId

Raw

Hashed Windows user name of the active user.

The value is hashed using SHA256.