Permission: Diagnose Dashboard
In this article, we will cover the available tools that you can utilize to navigate a vendor trace report.
View vendors by consent action
Depending on how your property has been configured, you may see multiple tabs for your vendor trace report. Each tab is a consent action that corresponds with a specific vendor chain that is triggered for that particular consent status.
Click each tab to view the vendor chain that is triggered for that consent action. See below for more information:
| Consent action | Description of vendor chain |
| Previously Accept All | Vendors triggered on pages that have been scanned when the user has accepted all on a previous session. |
| Accept All | Vendors triggered when the user has accepted all purposes on the consent banner. |
| Reject Personalized Ads | Vendors triggered after the user has rejected personalized ads purposes on the consent banner. |
| Reject Personalization | Vendors triggered after the user has rejected personalization purposes on the consent banner. |
| Reject All | Vendors triggered after the user has rejected all purposes on the consent banner. |
| Login | Vendors triggered after the user has logged in. |
| Login Prior to Consent | Vendors triggered after the user has logged in, prior to consent being given for any purpose. |
| Reject Cookies and Login | Vendors triggered after the user has rejected cookies on the consent banner and logged in. |
| Accept Information, Storage & Access | Vendors triggered after the user has accepted the Information, Storage & Access purpose on the consent banner. |
| Reject Targeting Cookies | Vendors triggered after the user has rejected targeting cookies on the consent banner. |
| Reject Advertising Partners | Vendors triggered after the user has rejected advertising partners on the consent banner. |
| Do Not Sell My Personal Information | Vendors triggered after the user has opted out of the sale of their personal information. |
| Accept Personalization Only | Vendors triggered after the user has accepted only the personalization purpose on the consent banner. |
| Prior to Consent | Vendors triggered prior to the user making any choices on the consent banner. |
| Reject Advertising | Vendors triggered after the user has rejected advertising purposes on the consent banner. |
| No Opt Out | Vendors triggered when the user has not opted out of the sale of personal information. |
| Accept All & Login | Vendors triggered when the user has accepted all purposes on the consent banner and logged in. |
| Continuer Sans Accepter | Vendors triggered after the user has closed the consent banner without making any explicit choices. |
Filter by metrics
Vendor trace comes with four metric filters that you can use to visually isolate the vendors in the vendor chain who satisfy the metric description. Use the Select a filter dropdown menu to select a metric filter to apply to your vendor trace report.
When the non-disclosed vendors filter is applied to your vendor trace report, the visualization will highlight the following vendors and relationships within the vendor chain:
- Disclosed vendors
- Disclosed vendors who trigger non-disclosed vendors
- Non-disclosed vendors
Use the provided toolbox to toggle the various traces on/off within the visualization.
Fingerprinting is a way for vendors to identify an individual's browser or device based on its unique configuration. When the possible fingerprinting filter is applied to your vendor trace report, the visualization will highlight vendors in the vendor chain who satisfy at least one of the methods used by Sourcepoint to identify possible fingerprinting
Click here for more information on fingerprinting and the methods Sourcepoint utilizes to track vendors who may be fingerprinting.
When the prior to consent filter is applied to your vendor trace report, the visualization will highlight vendors in the vendor chain who were detected before the end-user provided consent.
When the storage and information filter is applied to your vendor trace report, the visualization will highlight vendors in the vendor chain who are either dropping cookies, possibly fingerprinting, or writing to local storage.
Filter by prevalence range
The prevalence of a vendor refers to the percentage of scans where Sourcepoint has detected the vendor across all scans configured for the scan URL. For example, a vendor with a prevalence of 25% means that Sourcepoint only detected the vendor in 25% of all scans for the scan URL.
Use the provided prevalence range filter to select the start of the range. Vendors with prevalences that are greater than or equal to the start of the prevalence range will be included in your visualization. For example, if you set the prevalence range filter to 50% then the visualization will only show vendors in the vendor chain whose prevalences are between 50%-100%.
View/navigation tools
In addition to filters, the vendor trace report provides the following navigational tools:
View toolbox
The view toolbox include the following navigational tools:
| Tool | Description |
| Zoom | Zoom in or out of the vendor trace report by a fixed percentage. |
| Collapse All | Collapse trace lines in the vendor chain |
| Expand All | Expand all trace lines in the vendor chain to see how all vendors are triggering downstream vendors |
| Show Searched/All Vendors | Only available when using the vendor search functionality. Allows you to toggle between seeing where the specific vendor sits in the vendor chain or the entire vendor chain. |
Expand/collapse single vendor
Vendors who trigger downstream vendors in the vendor chain can have all trace lines that originate from it collapsed by clicking the minus symbol to the right of the vendor name within the vendor trace visualization
Note: If expanding the trace line for a single vendor in the vendor chain, the vendor trace visualization will only expand the vendors in the layer immediately after the originating vendor.
Navigate across layers
If a vendor chain exceeds the viewable area in the vendor trace visualization (either due to a long a vendor chain or zooming in) you can navigate across the layers via the provided arrows in the upper-right hand corner of the visualization
Vendor search
Use the vendor search function to highlight a specific vendor in the vendor chain. When a vendor is searched for, you will have access to an additional tool in the view toolbox that allows you to toggle on/off an overlay that only shows the trace line for the searched vendor.