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Web log metadata

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By lakeside - 4/14/2016

Most of the fields within the web logs are self-explanatory but a few are not. Below are the columns I see when I download the log for a web script. Can I get a review/update of the following?

Column

Description

webscriptid

Unique identifier pointing the parent task (web script)

subjectid

Unique subject identifier. Optional URL argument.

groupid

Group identifier. Optional URL argument.

ipaddress

Subject IP address

launchtimestamp

Date and time the script launch button pressed (mm/dd/yyyy hh:mm)

licensetimestamp

 

datatimestamp

Date and time the data file was written to the server

errortimestamp

 

finishtimestamp

How does this differ from dataTimeStamp?

scriptpath

Path to task script excluding base URL

useragent

Subject user agent string from

finishuseragent

How does this differ from useragent

iqclient

Inquisit client used to launch Inquisit task

macaddress

Subject machine Mac Address

clientipaddress

IP address hosting Inquisit script

launchversion

Version of Inquisit software used to launch task

licenseversion

Licensed version of Inquisit

launchquery

Arguments attached to web script URL

datafiles

Comma-delimited list of files generated by subject

finishredirect

 

launchcount

Number of times the launch button clicked

licensecount

Number of licenses associated with account

datafilecount

Number of data files generated

errorcount

Number of errors encountered

finishcount

Number of times the finish page reach

sessionlength

Administration time for task (seconds)
By Dave - 4/14/2016

> licensetimestamp

Before a script is executed a license check (is the script registered under a still active license?) performed. Reflects the time of that check.

> errortimestamp

Reflects the time an error occured (if any), such as a failure to download a file (e.g. because it's missing), a graphics error, etc.

> finishtimestamp

How does this differ from dataTimeStamp? Finishtime should reflect the time all actions, including data upload, have completed. You'll usually find it to be a maybe 1 or 2 seconds later than datatimestamp.

> finishuseragent

How does this differ from useragent? On some systems it is possible that -- due to system configuration or some other technical issue-- the finish page would be opened in a different browser than the one the experiment was launched with (useragent seen by the launch page). This is detectable by comparing useragent and finishuseragent.

> finishredirect

External URL (if any) that was redirected to after the experiment.

Hope this helps.