BrowseReporter
Geolocation Tracking Features
This feature is currently in BETA, and is only available to a small group of users for pre-release access. If you wish to participate in early access, please contact support@currentware.com Using Geolocation Geolocation allows the geographical ...
Subscribe to Dashboard Emails
CurrentWare's dashboards empower you to make informed, data-driven decisions that enhance business productivity. Stay on top of key metrics by subscribing to your dashboard for email reports. With this feature, you can choose which dashboard pages or ...
How to Rename a Website Category
Renaming a website category in CurrentWare is a straightforward process. Follow these steps to update the category name: 1. Open the CurrentWare Console: Launch the CurrentWare console on your computer. 2. Navigate to the BrowseReporter > Run Reports ...
Add BrowseControl blocks directly from BrowseReporter Dashboard
As of V10.0.0, we have made it easier than ever to take information found in BrowseReporter and quickly action blocks based on URLs or Categories that you find end users accessing, that are unproductive, should be on the allowed list or timewasting. ...
Why do I see more than 1 hour in my bar graph?
There are a couple causes as to why your bar graph may visually show more than 1 hour in a 1 hour period time frame. 1. You are sorting the data on a user basis, and the user was logged into more than 1 tracked machine. If the user uses PC-A and PC-B ...
Set up Weekly Performance Report
Admins can receive weekly reports of employee performance directly sent to their email inbox. How to Create a Weekly Performance Report NOTE: You must have your email settings configured and a report profile created before creating an email report ...
How do I Disable Specific Tracking Options
These options are available to change the behavior of BrowseReporter’s tracking process. Enable URL Tracking Enable Hourly Website Usage: this option will aggregate and separate the data based on the hour it was used. Enable Application Tracking ...
Chrome displayed a warning message when I am trying to run a report
With the CurrentWare Web Console feature you are able to run reports directly from your web browser. You may find that reports are not opening or giving you a blocked pop-up. This popup block icon will be visible in your Chrome address bar. This ...
Change the BrowseReporter Logo in Reports
In some cases, the administrator may want to change the logo on reports to their company logo which would replace the CurrentWare BrowseReporter Logo. This can be easily done through the Web Console. Launch the CurrentWare Web Console. Open Settings ...
Best practices to catch mouse mover software
To protect against the potential for data manipulation through the use of mouse manipulation software or physical devices that mimic computer activity, it is essential to be aware of these potential sources of inaccuracy. Through BrowseReporter you ...
My database is getting big. How do I reduce the file size?
⚠️IMPORTANT NOTE: Before you begin, back up your existing database file (CWNPSQL) through the Tools > Database Backup Scheduler > Run now. Delete Bandwidth data Bandwidth data takes up a majority of your database. Deleting Bandwidth data will save ...
Location Tracking Dashboard
The location dashboard provides managers with important insights based on employee work locations. This helps managers make informed decisions about workplace policies. The dashboard displays data for Office, Remote, and Hybrid work durations. It ...
What happens to the data when I delete a computer?
Deleting a PC: When a computer is deleted from the CurrentWare Console, the data corresponding to the specific computer will be deleted as well. Deleting a User: Deleting a User will delete only the data about that user.
My email report is not being sent?
If your email reports are not being sent to your email, review the CWSMail.log located on your CurrentWare Server to further troubleshoot this issue. C:\Program Files (x86)\CurrentWare\Logs\CWSEmail.log Common CWSEmail.logs Error Messages Error ...
I am not getting any Bandwidth activities in my reports
If you are not seeing any bandwidth data in your reports from BrowseReporter, here are some ways to troubleshoot the issue. Reinstall the Client Agent You may be experiencing issues with user permissions for the client agent on the computer. ...
I am not getting any URLs in my reports
If you are not seeing any URL data in your reports from BrowseReporter, here are some ways to troubleshoot the issue. Restart the Client Computer If you can’t find any URLs in your reports right after installing the client agent on the computer, a ...
Reclassify Categories for Reports
You can easily reclassify website domains If you want to have it set as a different classification for your BrowseReporter reports and BrowseControl’s web category filtering database. To change the classification of a domain for your BrowseReporter ...
If my user deletes their Internet history, will BrowseReporter still track it?
BrowseReporter tracks the data in real time with the client agent installed onto their computer. The data gets tracked into its proprietary database. Even if the user deletes their browsing history, BrowseReporter will still upload the activities to ...
How much data does BrowseReporter keep?
BrowseReporter tracks data from your end user’s Internet, bandwidth and application activities. By default, it keeps the data inside the database indefinitely. Since the CurrentWare database is stored on your network, you can decide how much data to ...
Set up Idle Notification Email Alerts
You can easily set up an email notification alert to be notified of when a user is idle for a defined time. This real-time alert informs you that your user may be using company time maliciously, especially in the landscape of a hybrid or remote ...
Set up Email alerts
Set up an email notification alert to be notified of when a user breaches any of the defined settings. This real-time alert warns of potential trouble as it is happening. A message is immediately triggered to administrators to help them respond ...
Use Group Grading to Classify Group Productivity
Setup productivity grades for specific groups When BrowseReporter tracks time spent on websites and applications it automatically assigns a productivity grade of productive, unproductive, or neutral. This allows you to understand how much time is ...
Drill down into dashboard data
On your dashboard, you can drill into websites, applications, and categories to see more user information behind the data. Go to BrowseReporter > Dashboard Click on any websites, applications or categories to see more details In the drill down page, ...
Set up Email reports
Through the Email Reports feature, BrowseReporter reports can automatically be generated and emailed to the administrator periodically. This eliminates the manual process of creating reports. How to Create a Schedule for Email Reports NOTE: You must ...
Track Youtube bandwidth consumption
BrowseReporter’s Bandwidth reports will give you an insight into exactly how much data is consumed on your users’ computers from Youtube and other video streaming websites.
Saving activity reports in PDF format
After generating your report in BrowseReporter’s proprietary report viewer, you can export it into a .PDF file saved locally. Choose the report you want to run. After generating a report, click on the save icon on the toolbar. You can choose to ...
Track bandwidth consumptions
BrowseReporter can track bandwidth usage on your computers with the client agent installed. The client agent tracks and stores the bandwidth consumption data on the computer in real time. You can generate different bandwidth usage reports with ...
Track computer activities during office hours
BrowseReporter has a feature called Tracking Scheduler that enables you to schedule specific tracking times. Collecting information at all times may be unnecessary. Therefore, this tool is useful when you want to monitor and track employees’ usage ...
Exclude websites or applications from activity reports
You can exclude specific websites or applications from being tracked by BrowseReporter to reduce the amount of data stored and focus your reports on the websites that matter. Exclude Websites Exclude Applications Exclude Websites How to Exclude ...
What is Idle Time Tracking?
BrowseReporter can measure how long your users are away from their computers based on their mouse and keyboard movement. In most situations, when there is no movement from a user’s mouse or keyboard for a long period of time, their computer is ...
Generate a PDF report for specific computers/users
You can generate a report based on specific computers or users in your network. When you run a BrowseReporter report, you can specify the computers or users under the “Computers/Users” option: Open BrowseReporter from the left-hand menu. Choose Run ...
Track private browsing sessions
BrowseReporter can track private browsing sessions. It reads the data directly on an internet network level so it is still tracked through the local client. This means that your users who may try to avoid getting tracked while doing time wasting or ...
How do I grade the websites & applications for the productivity score?
There are three ways to grade your websites and applications for the productivity score. Productivity Score Graded by Websites & Applications Productivity Score Graded by Categories Productivity Score Graded by Group VS Global Setting On the ...
How is the productivity score calculated?
BrowseReporter’s reports and dashboards calculate productivity scores based on your employees’ Internet browsing activity and application usage. The productivity score provides insight into your employee’s workplace productivity by measuring how much ...
Capture Screenshots
Capture high-resolution compressed screenshots of users’ computers to uncover risks and unproductive activities. Screenshots can be captured using three different scenario configurations: periodic, application event, and website event. Create a new ...
Track webpage titles
BrowseReporter can track webpage titles to give you further insight on what your employees were doing. Webpage titles will provide a glimpse of the content that your employees were browsing. For example, if your employees were watching a video on ...
Sample of Run Reports
To help you monitor the computer usage of your workforce BrowseReporter includes both prefabricated reports and user activity dashboards. This article will focus on the reports. BrowseReporter offers 4 types of activity reports when monitoring your ...
Custom Dashboards
Custom dashboard allows users to create new dashboards using existing widgets. With over 20 available widgets, users can choose the ones that will help them understand employee productivity, time spent on websites/apps, USB file transfer history, ...
Track users time spent on websites
BrowseReporter tracks how long a user spent on browsing on the Internet or use an application and display them in detailed reports. There are three ways BrowseReporter measures time – Active Time, Total time and Idle time. Active Time Total Time Idle ...
BrowseReporter Web Dashboards
In addition to the user activity reports BrowseReporter includes 7 dashboards that give you insights on website activities, productivities, application usage and bandwidth consumptions of your entire organization. With BrowseReporter’s web ...
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