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Check Browser Compatibility for Desktop & Mobile - SortSite

May 2, 2016, 5:00 pm
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Supported Standards

Test for browser compatibility issues in the most common web browsers:

  • Internet Explorer compatibility back to version 6.0
  • Desktop browser compatibility in Firefox, Chrome, Safari and Opera
  • Mobile browser compatibility in iPhone/iPad, Android and Blackberry

Cross Browser Testing

SortSite Professional checks websites for features that don't work correctly, or behave differently, on different browsers:

  • HTML tags that don't function correctly on all browsers
  • CSS features that don't function correctly on all browsers
  • Vendor specific HTML and JavaScript
  • Image formats not supported by all browsers (e.g. transparent PNGs don't work on IE6)
  • Technologies not supported by some browsers (e.g. Flash on iPhone and BlackBerry)

These checks give early warning of browser compatibility problems without the associated cost of manual testing on different platform and browser combinations.

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SortSite Dashboard Report
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Broken Link Checker for Websites - SortSite

May 2, 2016, 5:00 pm
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Supported Standards

SortSite scans entire websites for broken links and other quality problems:

  • Find broken links and missing images
  • Detect server configuration issues
  • Check for ASP/ASPX/PHP script errors and warnings

Broken Link Checker

SortSite error checks include:

  • HTML - check for missing images and broken links
  • CSS - check for missing background graphics and broken @import statements
  • Flash - check for missing movie files and find broken links inside movie files
  • RSS - check for broken RSS feeds
  • Script Errors - find errors and warnings produced by ASP, ASPX and PHP
  • Plus - find server configuration errors, expired domains and faulty SSL certificates

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SortSite Dashboard Report
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Accessibility Checker: Test WCAG2 & Section 508 Compliance

May 2, 2016, 5:00 pm
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Supported Standards

SortSite checks sites against the W3C WCAG 1.0 and 2.0 accessibility standards, and compliance with Section 508 of the Rehabilitation Act.

These checks help find problems stopping disabled users from using a web site.

Accessibility Standards Testing

Checks include:

  • WCAG 2.0 - 117 tests covering A, AA and AAA guidelines
  • WCAG 1.0 - 89 tests covering A, AA and AAA guidelines
  • Section 508 - 56 tests covering 15 guidelines

File formats checked for accessibility include: HTML; CSS; JavaScript; PDF; GIF; and Flash.

Note: some accessibility issues require human judgement and cannot be tested automatically.

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SortSite Dashboard Report
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How to automatically map / scan a site - Technote TN-W01

May 6, 2016, 5:00 pm
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OnDemand

To schedule a regular scan of a site:

  1. Create a report or map of the site
  2. Click the Edit Scan button next to the site report
  3. Choose the When to Scan option
  4. Click the Save button

Windows Desktop

To schedule a regular scan of a site:

  1. Create a report or map of the site
  2. Save the report or site map
  3. Choose the View Schedule command from the File menu
  4. Click the New Task button on the Scheduled Tasks page
  5. When saving the task you'll be prompted for your Windows password. This allows the task to run when you're not logged in.

To edit or delete a task use the View Schedule command and right click on the task name.

Note: Scheduled tasks use the Windows Scheduler and can be viewed in the Scheduled Tasks administrator tool.

Mac Desktop

To schedule a regular scan of a site:

  1. Create a report or map of the site
  2. Save the report or site map
  3. Choose the Schedule command from the File menu
  4. Click the + button on the Scan Schedule window

To edit or delete a task use the Schedule command and click on the task name.

Applies To: OnDemand, PowerMapper Pro 4.09 and SortSite Pro 2.0 or later

Last Reviewed: May 7, 2016

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Using a proxy server - Technote TN-W14

May 8, 2016, 5:00 pm
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Mac Desktop

PowerMapper and SortSite use the Mac OS X proxy server settings. To change Mac proxy settings click the Network icon in System Preferences then click the Advanced button.

Note: Proxy auto-config (PAC) is not supported on the Mac.

Windows Desktop

PowerMapper and SortSite use the Windows proxy server settings. To change Windows proxy settings use the Internet Options icon in the Control Panels folder.

Note: If your proxy server requires you to login you'll need to enable the Automatic Login option inside PowerMapper and SortSite:

  1. Select the Options command from the View menu
  2. Go the Links tab
  3. Check the Automatic Login box
  4. Click OK

Applies To: SortSite 3.0 and PowerMapper 4.0 or later

Last Reviewed: May 9, 2016

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Why do links in JavaScript not show up - Technote TN-M13

May 13, 2016, 5:00 pm
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The program optionally looks for links in JavaScript - this is controlled by the JavaScript setting in the Links page of the Options window. When this setting is turned on any strings assigned to location objects are treated as URLs, and links created by Mustache templates and frameworks like AngularJS are evaluated.

Example 1

function Navigate() 
{
    parent.bigframe.location.href = "bigframe1.html";
}

Example 2

<a href="url1.html" onclick="parent.bigframe.location.href = 'url2.html'">

In the first example «bigframe1.html» is extracted, and in the second «url1.html» and «url2.html» are extracted.

See also:

  • TN-M24 Why don’t links in drop down boxes show up
  • TN-W18 Scanning Angular.js sites

Applies to: PowerMapper 2.0 or later; SortSite 1.0 or later

Last reviewed: May 14, 2016

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Scanning Angular.js sites - Technote TN-W18

May 13, 2016, 5:00 pm
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SortSite can scan sites created with Angular and similar frameworks if:

  1. The site uses routing URLs beginning with punctuation like #/view1 or #!/view1. It still treats URLs like #skip_to_content as on-page links within the same document. This is needed for skip links amongst other things.

  2. The JavaScript DOM Changes setting is changed to All Changes. On Windows this is View menu->Options->Links. On Mac this is Scan Options->Links.

You can test this on the following Angular sample which changes view when you click on the links:

http://angular-ui.github.io/ui-router/sample/#/

The links in this are automatically followed and scanned, and the Pages tab of the report shows Angular views loaded on pages like:

Note: Reporting in SortSite is based around URLs. If routing links load views, but don’t change the URL, then all results are reported on a single page.

Applies To: SortSite Desktop 5.10 or later

Last Reviewed: May 14, 2016

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SortSite Developer - continuous integration accessibility testing

June 10, 2016, 5:00 pm
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SortSite Developer Edition is aimed at software engineers, and contains 2 executables:

  • A desktop application, identical to SortSite Professional
  • A command line tool designed for integration into continuous integration (CI) systems like Jenkins

How it works

Developer Edition provides a command line tool called SortSiteCmd, which produces the same reports as the SortSite desktop application.

The command line interface allows it be used in:

  • Continuous integration tools like Jenkins
  • Build tools like Apache Ant and MSBuild

The command line takes one parameter: the name of a configuration file describing the site to scan:

    SortSiteCmd Test.config

The configuration file lets you specify the number of issues expected in your app. If the scan finds a different number of issues, a non-zero exit code is returned. This lets you start scanning a site with many issues, but flag failure each time a regression occurs, and gradually reduce the expected error count as issues are fixed.

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How do report benchmarks work - Technote TN-Q14

June 10, 2016, 5:00 pm
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The Dashboard tab of every SortSite report contains a benchmark column showing how the scanned site compares to other sites.

The comparison is done by comparing the percentage of pages on the scanned site with issues, against the average percentage of pages on other sites that have issues:

  • if a site has issues on 50% of pages and other sites have issues on 75% of pages on average, the site will show as better than average
  • if a site has issues on 50% of pages and other sites have issues on 25% of pages on average, the site will show as worse than average

The averages for other sites are calculated using a basket of benchmark sites on 7 continents. The sector benchmarks work exactly the same way, using an average percentage of pages with issues on government, education and commerical sites.

Applies To: SortSite 1.0 or later and OnDemand Suite

Last Reviewed: June 11, 2016

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Exporting site map data - Technote TN-W07

June 10, 2016, 5:00 pm
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Mac Desktop

To export sitemap data from PowerMapper for Mac:

  1. Choose the Export Map command from the toolbar
  2. Click the Export Format dropdown to select HTML, XML or Excel CSV format

Windows Desktop

To export sitemap data from PowerMapper for Windows:

  1. Choose the Export command from the File menu
  2. Click the Save as type dropdown to select HTML, XML or Excel CSV format

Applies To: PowerMapper 4.12 and later

Last Reviewed: June 11, 2016

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Exporting a report to Word, Excel or HTML - Technote TN-W11

June 10, 2016, 5:00 pm
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Mac Desktop

To export a report from SortSite Professional for Mac:

  1. Choose the Export Report command from the toolbar
  2. Click the Export Format dropdown to select HTML, Word or Excel format

Windows Desktop

To export a report from SortSite Professional for Windows:

  1. Choose the Export command from the File menu
  2. Click the Save as type dropdown to select HTML, Word or Excel format

OnDemand Suite

To export a report from OnDemand Suite:

  1. Go to the scan report page
  2. Click the Export format dropdown in the navigation bar to select Word or Excel format
  3. Click the Download link next to the dropdown

Applies To: OnDemand and SortSite 3.0 Professional and later. Export is not available in SortSite Standard.

Last Reviewed: June 11, 2016

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Using a Google sitemap - Technote TN-W08

June 11, 2016, 5:00 pm
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To use a sitemap in Google:

  1. Export from PowerMapper using the Export command on the File menu on Windows or the toolbar on Mac, choose the Google sitemap option, and name the file sitemap.xml
  2. Upload sitemap.xml to the root directory on your web server (usually the same folder as the home page)
  3. Login to Google Webmaster Tools (see Webmaster Tools help if you don’t have an account yet)
  4. Navigate to the Sitemaps section of Webmaster tools (Optimization: Sitemaps on the left hand menu)
  5. Click ‘Add/Test Sitemap’
  6. Enter the address of your uploaded sitemap (e.g. http://www.example.com/sitemap.xml)

Applies To: PowerMapper 4.00 and later

Last Reviewed: June 12, 2016

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Uploading site maps to your web site - Technote TN-W09

June 11, 2016, 5:00 pm
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To use a site map on your web site:

  1. Choose the Export command from the File menu on Windows or the toolbar on Mac
  2. Select the HTML option from the Save Type dropdown, then click Save
  3. PowerMapper will display the folder containing the exported HTML and graphic files making up the map
  4. Upload the whole folder to your web server
  5. Link to the uploaded file named map.htm

To use a Google sitemap see TN-W08

Applies To: PowerMapper 4.12 and later

Last Reviewed: June 12, 2016

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Scanning password protected pages - Technote TN-M14

June 11, 2016, 5:00 pm
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You can scan password protected sites in all Desktop editions, but not in the OnDemand (cloud) edition.

Sites using forms and HTTP authentication

To map a password protected site in SortSite Desktop 1.0 or PowerMapper Desktop 4.02 and later:

  1. Login to the site in the usual way (either via a login page or the popup password dialog)
  2. Once you’ve logged in, navigate to the page you want to start scanning from (usually the page shown after login, or the home page of the site) then map or check your site

Note: If you have a logout link inside the secure area, then the scanner may be logged out if it follows the logout link. To prevent this happening go to Block Links on the Links tab of the Options window and add something like the following:

*logout*

This stops the scanner following links with ‘logout’ in the URL.

Sites using Windows authentication

To map a site (typically an intranet or internal web application) that uses Windows Integrated Authentication:

  1. Go to Options on the View menu, go to the Links tab, and make sure the Automatic Login box is checked (this option is not present and always set in SortSite 3.0 and PowerMapper 5.01 and earlier)
  2. Now navigate to the page you want to start scanning from then map or check your site

Note: do not scan sites using Windows Authentication if you have administrator rights, and if following any of the links on the site can trigger side-effects such as hiding content.

Applies To: PowerMapper Desktop 4.0 and SortSite Desktop 1.0 or above

Last Reviewed: June 12, 2016

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Scan mobile site that redirects to desktop site - Technote TN-W16

June 11, 2016, 5:00 pm
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Scenario

You try to scan a mobile site like m.example.com, but the site is coded to redirect non-mobile browsers to the www.example.com desktop site.

SortSite and PowerMapper Desktop

To scan a mobile site with a browser redirect try this:

  1. Choose Options from the View menu and select the ‘Advanced’ tab
  2. Enter a mobile user agent string in the user agent box. For example: Mozilla/5.0 (iPhone; CPU iPhone OS 7_0 like Mac OS X) AppleWebKit/537.51.1 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/7.0 Mobile/11A465 Safari/9537.53
  3. Restart the application when prompted
  4. Choose New from from the File menu
  5. Use the address of your mobile site as the start page (e.g. http://m.example.com)

Applies To: SortSite 5.0 and PowerMapper 5.0 or later

Last Reviewed: June 12, 2016

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PowerMapper or SortSite has stopped working - Technote TN-M26

June 11, 2016, 5:00 pm
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If PowerMapper or SortSite crash on Windows the following message appears:

  • PowerMapper has stopped working
  • SortSite has stopped working

We collect statistics on these errors and know that they occur very rarely (typically less than 0.01% of our user base). If one does occur, please do the following:

  • Choose the ‘Check for a solution’ option if available. This sends us the internal state of the app when it crashes which means we can diagnose the cause and make sure the problem is fixed in future versions
  • Contact support@powermapper.com who will diagnose the issue and suggest a workaround or fix

On Max OS X crash reporting is controlled by the ‘Automatically send crash reports’ checkbox displayed the first time the app runs.

Applies To: all desktop products

Last Reviewed: June 12, 2016

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Mapping a SharePoint site - Technote TN-Q06

June 11, 2016, 5:00 pm
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To map a SharePoint site you usually want to prevent certain files/directories appearing on the site map.

  1. Choose the Options command from the View menu (Windows) or Scan Options button on the toolbar (Mac)
  2. Click on the Blocks tab
  3. Add one link pattern per line in the blocks box. For example: /templates/_layout

See Also:Does the product work with an intranet

Applies To: PowerMapper 4.12 or later

Last Reviewed: June 12, 2016

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