Dynamic Parameters as recognized by Site Explorer can be defined in the following steps:
- Take the initial part of the URL up to the first occurrence of ';', '?' or '&' as the static part of the URL
- Segment the rest of the URL by each ';', '?'. '&' that occurs
- Within each of the segments thus produced:
- if the string looks like 'a=b', then 'a' is the parameter name and 'b' is the parameter value
- if the string looks like 'a', then 'a' is the parameter name
Thus, the following URLs are treated as illustrated:
- http://www.example.com/path?a=2
- has 1 dynamic parameter 'a', with value 2
- http://www.xyz.com/p?c=5&a=2;;b
- has 3 dynamic parameters 'a', 'c' with values 2 and 5 and 'b' with no value
- http://www.example.com/&q=4;;b=4
- has 2 dynamic parameters 'b', 'q' with values 4 and 4
Dynamic Parameter names or values entered in Site Explorer can contain alphanumerics (a-z, A-Z, 0-9) or '-' (dashes) or '_' (underscores)