Betterworks Guides: Glossary of Terms

Account	If you are like many SaaS companies, you will have individual users or visitors signing into your product, but multiple of those visitors (see visitor ) will all belong to the same paying account.
Account Report	Reports allow you to customize time ranges, segments, and table data so you can view and save the Account information most important to you. You can also export your custom reports to a CSV file for added functionality.
Badge	Tooltip Badges Guides let you place a small icon next to an element on your page. When your visitors click that element, the guide will be shown. This is a fantastic way to add inline support to your web application. Your users can request information at the moment they need it.
CSS Selector	A CSS selector is the part of a CSS rule set that actually selects the content you want to style. Betterworks Guides utilizes CSS selectors for Element Matching.
Data Delay	Betterworks Guides data is processed at the top of every hour and may take up to 15 minutes past the hour to fully appear in the UI. The exception is metadata events which are processed immediately at the time of receipt.
Data Mappings	Data Mappings is where you can see the “name” and “type” of data that Betterworks Guides uses for all analyses. There are three possible "groups" that the data could fall under: 1. Agent: This is metadata provided by the configured Betterworks Guides snippet upon installation. These fields can only be changed within the code snippet. It is also extremely important that the agent data be reviewed inside of Betterworks Guides to ensure that the data-type listed in Betterworks Guides matches the actual data-type of the code snippet. 2. Custom: This is a way to add a custom "Betterworks Guides only" field to help analyze aspects of your data. It is important to note that any custom fields added here do not add function in any way unless you link a "Visitor" or an "Account" to the custom field created by adding a value. You can do this when you click into an individual visitor or an account and edit the options there.
Designer	The In-App Designer can be accessed from the Pages, Features, and Guides pages by clicking ‘Manage In-App’ in the top right corner of the page. The designer allows you to create new pages, tag features, and edit guides within your application.
Element Matching	Betterworks Guides uses element matching to target features in your application, tooltip guide location, and guide badge location through CSS selectors.
Event	Betterworks Guides captures ‘click’, ‘focus’, and ‘load’ events. Clicks on elements within your application are used to calculate Feature usage. The best example of focus is when elements are highlighted as you 'tab' around the page. Page loads and URL changes within your application are used to calculate the number of Page views.
Exclude List	Betterworks Guides offers multiple ways to exclude data to keep your analytics clean of unwanted data. This is accessible by Admins of your Betterworks Guides account by going to Settings and then clicking on Exclude list. You are able to exclude by Host/Domain, IP Address, Visitor ID, and Account ID.
Feature	Any HTML element in your application can be tagged as a feature. Once features are tagged they can be used throughout Betterworks Guides in segments, paths, funnels, and more. Feature tagging is retroactive, so you can tag relevant features once you need them and still have all of the data.
First Visit	This date and time is the first time Betterworks Guides received an event from the Account or Visitor.
Funnel	Funnels are analytics tools that allow you to measure how customers move through a defined series of steps. They can provide a high level of clarity as to where your customers “drop-off” when following these steps. From there, you can put our Paths tool to work to learn where they “drop-off” so as to better build your product to keep them in the funnel.
Guide	Betterworks Guides's version of In-Application messages. Guides can be tied to a page or elements inside of the page. Guides can alert users of new features and feature upgrades, walk them through tasks step by step, poll end users, onboard users, and more. Types of guides: Tooltip, Lightbox, Banner, Walkthrough (Multistep guide).
Guide Center	The Guide Center is an activation method for guides that lives on top of your application. It appears as an icon on the bottom-right, bottom-left, or top-right of the window. When clicked, a list of guides is displayed. Guides can be activated manually and multiple times through this method.
Include List	Alternatively to excluding data (see exclude list) from specific domains or accounts, you can include data according to the same dimensions. Include list performs the exact opposite operation. So, when enabled, data from ONLY the domains or accounts you specify will be collected.
Last Visit	Most recent date and time Betterworks Guides received an event from the Account or Visitor.
Layout (or Template)	Guide Layout (or template) allows a consistent format to be applied to a subset or all of guides deployed in your application. The format can be easily replicated, making it easy to create large numbers of guides quickly. Templates hide HTML/CSS customizations from users, allowing non-technical users to create and edit guides in a simple form-field interface.
Metadata	A set of data that describes and gives information about other data. For Betterworks Guides, we have metadata about Visitors and Accounts. Examples of metadata include things like "Visitor Name", "Visitor E-mail address", "Role of Visitor".
Most Recent Browser	Data that the user agent collects from the browser which includes browser name, browser version and operating system.
Most Recent Server	Every event has a URL associated with it. We take the last event sent by that visitor and parse out the server name from that URL.
Number of Days Active	The sum of every day within the Date Range which contains at least one event for the Visitor or Account.
Number of Events	This field counts all events (clicks, page loads, and more) and serves as a way to gauge roughly how much data is coming in, though it is not particularly insightful. 'Time on Site' serves as a better indication of activity.
Page Tagging	Based off the URL in the browser. For the vast majority of use cases this will work well. However, if you have the same page with a changing URL (i.e. a change with different users that are signed in); then you will have to create a custom page rule that will target all of the identical pages.
Pages	Tagging Pages is essential to using Betterworks Guides. Start in the Pages section to begin tagging and analyzing the important parts of your app.
Path	A Path is a visual representation that allows you to discover the previous steps that led to or the next steps since a particular tagged features usage.
Poll	Polls can be added to guides to gather feedback from your users. Poll types include: Multiple Choice, Open Text Field, Yes / No, Number Scale, and NPS (Net Promoter Score). Poll responses can be used for segmenting.
Processing	After you tag a new feature or page, or edit the rules for a feature or page, that page will be listed as "Processing". This means Betterworks Guides is going back in time through historical events to reclassify them based on this new tagged feature or page. Depending on the amount of data you have in Betterworks Guides, this can take anywhere from 2 minutes to an hour to compute. If it takes longer than an hour, do not hesitate to contact us. If you are interested in when data collected by Betterworks Guides is processed, we begin processing at the top of each hour and may not finish processing until fifteen minutes past the hour.
Reports	Reports allow you to customize time ranges, segments, and table data so you can view and save the Visitor and Account information most important to you. You can also export your custom reports to a CSV file for added functionality.
Retroactive Data	As soon as Betterworks Guides is installed on your application, it is collecting data. The data is accessible back to this first moment, making all page and feature tagging retroactive.
Sample Group	Each new user is randomly assigned an integer value between 0 and 99 when they first visit your application. The field can be used to segment to sample populations of your visitors.
Segment	A segment is a group of accounts or visitors that is filtered based product usage and/or metadata. You can segment data for features, visitors, accounts, funnels, and paths. Segments can also be used to target guides at specific populations of your users.
Snippet	Snippet is a programming term for a small region of re-usable source code, machine code, or text. Betterworks Guides installation requires the insertion of a small Javascript snippet into a template that is present on every page of an application. This snippet securely and asynchronously loads a Javascript file from our CDN.
Staging	Looking to test your guides before releasing to your entire user base? Releasing guides in a staging server, will allow you the flexibility to fine tune your guides before implementation. Guides in "Stage" status will display only on specific web application server hostnames or domains (i.e. preview.example.com, *.qa.example.com, demo.example.com).
Tagging	Identifying elements or pages to track. You "tag" pages and features with Betterworks Guides, and Betterworks Guides reports analytics based on those tags.
Time on Site	For Visitors, "Time on Site" refers to the time (in minutes) in your app each visitor spent by adding one minute to the counter for each minute we register any activity including page load, focus, clicks, etc (see "event" definition). If a user is not interacting with the site, we will not count that time. For Account data, the corresponding Visitor "Time on Site" data will be added together.
Visitor	A unique user visiting your application. This visitor can belong to one or more Accounts (see ‘Account’).
Visitor Report	Reports allow you to customize time ranges, segments, and table data so you can view and save the Visitor information most important to you. You can also export your custom reports to a CSV file for added functionality.
WYSIWYG	A WYSIWYG editor is a system in which content (text and graphics) onscreen during editing appears in a form closely corresponding to its appearance when printed or displayed as a finished product, which might be a printed document, web page, or slide presentation. An acronym for What You See Is What You Get.