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Auto-Filter

The Auto-Filter system is a self learning filter system and provides an easy and comfortable way to create a set of Ignore filters automatically based on highlighted changes.


When can the Auto-Filter system be used?

You should call this filter only when you get a false positive (for example caused by a changing date, a changing visitor counter, etc.), but not if a page contains any other highlighted news or changes.

Create an Auto-Filter if you have changes like:
Today is May 29th, 2006 - 13:41:56 am

You are visitor number 8,736

Comments (7), Trackback (3)


DON'T create an Auto-Filter if you have changes like:
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How to create an Auto-Filter?

1. Directly in the internal browser of WebSite-Watcher:
  1. Click the Auto-Filter button in the toolbar of the internal browser
  2. Click the button "Save learned items" in the Auto-Filter dialog


2. Within the Filter-Wizard:
  1. Open the bookmark properties
  2. Click the "Filter-Assistant" button
  3. Click the button "Create filter automatically"
  4. Click the button "Create Auto-Filter (Ignore highlighted changes)"
  5. Click the button "Save learned items" in the Auto-Filter dialog
  6. Test your filter with the "Test filter" button (optional, but recommended)



The learning process

After clicking the Auto-Filter button you get the following dialog that shows the number of learned changes and the number of learned filters:



Sometimes a filter can be created immediately the first time you call the Auto-Filter feature, in other cases only changes are learned and a filter will probably be created after a few more learning processes. It's dependent from the type of the change if and when a filter can be created.


WebSite-Watcher cannot create a working Auto-Filter

If WebSite-Watcher isn't able to create a filter automatically, you have to use the Filter Wizard to create a filter manually. Manually created filters have more priority and are executed before Auto-Filters.


Automatically created filters are deleted automatically after some time when they are no longer used. There's no need to maintain these kind of filters manually.