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How to Work with Transactions in the Shelf

This scenario describes how to put a collection of transaction frames in the shelf to generate artifacts.

1. Add a Transaction Frame to the Shelf.
2. Add All Occurred Transactions to the Shelf.
3. Add Merged Transactions to the Shelf.
4. Delete Frames in the Shelf.
5. Search for Paths in the Shelf.
6. Generate Artifacts.
7. Clear All Transactions from the Shelf.

Add a Transaction Frame to the Shelf

You shelve transactions and frames into the shelf to create virtual services, baselines, and documentation.

Follow these steps:

1. Select Application Insight, Analyze Transactions from the left navigation menu.

   Analyze Transactions window displays captured transactions in list view by default.

2. In list view, click in the Actions column.
3. In graphical view, click .

   The transactions display in the path graph.

4. Right-click a root transaction or frame and select Shelve.

   In graphical and list view, a blue pin icon displays above the shelved transaction frame. The frame is added to the shelf. The total number of shelved transactions in the shelf increases by one.

Add All Occurred Transactions to the Shelf

You can shelve all the transactions and frames that occurred during a captured transaction into the shelf instead of shelving them separately. The shelf displays all the occurred transactions as one transaction. You create virtual services, create baselines, and create documentation as a single shelved item. For example, when you shelve all the transactions occurring in the same path at the root transaction level then all the frames are added to the shelf as one transaction.

Follow these steps:

1. Select Application Insight, Analyze Transactions from the left navigation menu.

   Analyze Transactions window displays in list view by default.

2. Click in the Actions column.
3. The transaction details displays with the path graph at the top.
4. In graphical view, click .

   The transactions display in the path graph.

5. Right-click a transaction and select Shelve All Occurred Transactions.

   In graphical view and in the path graph, a blue pin and the word All displays above the shelved transaction frame. The frame is added to the shelf. The total number of shelved transactions in the shelf increases by one.

   The following graphics displays a transaction that has been shelved with all the occurred transactions in the path:

   

Add Merged Transactions to the Shelf

You can shelve merged transactions with repeated paths. Adding a group of repeated paths into the shelf lets you create artifacts for several transactions at once instead of one transaction at a time. When merged transactions are shelved, the number of merged repeated paths display in a blue badge.

Note: Stateful baselines are not supported for merged transactions. You can create consolidated and expanded baselines only.

Follow these steps:

1. Select Application Insight, Analyze Transactions from the left navigation menu.
2. In graphical or list view, click Repeated Paths.
3. The path displays an orange Merged badge in both views.
4. From graphical view, right-click the merged path and select Shelve (x number) Merged Transactions.

   The merged transactions are placed in the shelf.

Delete Frames in the Shelf

You can delete transaction frames that you do not want to generate artifacts for. Transaction frames can be deleted using the shelf dialog and using the one-click method. See the topic, Using Shelf for information about the one-click method.

Follow these steps:

For the shelf dialog

1. In the Analyze Transactions window, click .

   The shelf dialog displays a list of shelved frames.

2. Locate the frame that you want to delete and click .

   The frame is removed from the shelf.

For the one-click method popup

1. In the Analyze Transaction window, hover the mouse over the shelf icon.
2. Locate the frame that you want to delete and click X.

Search for Paths in the Shelf

The search capability lets you search for paths in the shelf by entering full text search criteria.

Follow these steps:

1. In the Analyze Transactions window, click .

   The shelf displays a list of all the shelved components.

2. Enter the text search criteria in the Search Shelf field.

   The shelf returns a list of components that are based on the search criteria.

Generate Artifacts

You generate the following business artifacts for transaction frames that are in the shelf:

• Virtual services
• Baselines
• Documentation

The types of artifacts that can be generated are indicated with colored labels in the list of transactions.

For detailed information about creating artifacts for specific types of transactions, see Creating Baselines and Creating Virtual Services.

The following procedure assumes that you have shelved a transaction frame. See the Add a Transaction Frame to the Shelf topic for information about how to shelve a transaction frame.

Follow these steps:

One-click method:

1. Open the Analyze Transactions window.
2. Hover the mouse over the shelf icon .

   The shelf displays with a list of shelved transaction frames.

3. (Optional) Click X to delete any frames for which you do not want to create an artifact.
4. Click an artifact option.
5. Follow the prompts.

Shelf dialog method:

1. Open the Analyze Transactions window.
2. Click .

   The shelf displays with a list of shelved transaction frames.

3. (Optional) Click X to delete any frames for which you do not want to create an artifact.
4. Click an artifact option.
5. (Optional) Click Locate agent in the topology map to view the agent map.
6. (Optional) Select Show All Agents to display all the agents for a transaction.
7. Click Create.

Clear All Transactions from the Shelf

You remove all the transactions that are currently in the shelf by clicking Clear Shelf from the shelf dialog.