Overview

Contents at UserGuiding (guides, hotspots, checklists, and surveys) can be set to show on a particular page or pages within your web app, depending on the page URL.

This tutorial explains how you can use the regular expression (regex) to trigger a UserGuiding Content on a page with a dynamic URL.

When crafting new content, you should make sure you're setting it to show on the correct page. To do this, you will need to find Page Targeting and set up a condition with targeting rules and URLs.

So when the current page URL matches your content's Page Targeting condition, it can start.

In the example below, the current URL matches the Page Targeting condition of a guide called "My Welcome Guide."

You can find Page Targeting in the Settings Page of contents in panel.userguiding.com and Chrome Extension.

A regular expression (regex) is a codified way of creating a pattern for a string. You can choose regex as a rule to create a general matching condition that follows some rules.

To use a regex, select the regex as your rule and type the expression into the URL field. The total URL input will be treated as a regular expression, and the condition for your Target Page URL will be set.

And, UserGuiding content will show on pages whose URL matches the regular expression defined in the URL field.

👉 Understand how regex works

Some examples of regular expressions include:

Use case example: To show a guide on yourplatform.com but not yourplatform.com/index, use the URL input: yourplatform.com$)

👉 Explore a reference guide on regex expressions

Let's assume your dynamic URL changes from https://myplatform/users/0000, then to https://myplatform/users/0001, then to https://myplatform/users/0002, and so on.

To create that dynamic Page Targeting condition and display your guide across all these URLs: