{"id":2859,"date":"2025-06-09T06:23:21","date_gmt":"2025-06-09T06:23:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/docs.testa75f9.uxtweak.dev\/prototype-testing-setup\/how-do-i-use-the-screening-tab-in-prototype-testing\/"},"modified":"2025-11-03T14:31:46","modified_gmt":"2025-11-03T14:31:46","slug":"how-do-i-use-the-screening-tab-in-prototype-testing","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.uxtweak.com\/help\/prototype-testing-setup\/how-do-i-use-the-screening-tab-in-prototype-testing\/","title":{"rendered":"How do I use the Screening tab in Prototype Testing?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"text-block\">In this help, we&#8217;ll discuss how to use the Screening tab to:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"bullet-list\">\n<li>Set screening on countries, devices, operating systems and browsers<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Block certain IP addresses from being recorded<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n<h2 id=\"set-which-countries-devices-operating-systems-and-browsers-should-be-recorded\" class=\"heading-block\" tabindex=\"0\">Set which countries, devices, operating systems and browsers should be recorded<a class=\"copy-link\" title=\"Copy link\" data-id=\"set-which-countries-devices-operating-systems-and-browsers-should-be-recorded\">&nbsp;<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/help.uxtweak.com\/wp-content\/themes\/uxtweak\/public\/assets\/images\/icons\/link.svg\" alt=\"Copy link\" \/><\/a><\/h2>\n\n\n<ul class=\"bullet-list\">\n<li>Automatically screen out respondents based on the information that can be gained from their IP and user agent information<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>By default, all respondents are accepted in the study<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>You can screen out respondents by their location, device, operating system and browser<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Either select<span>&nbsp;<\/span><b style=\"box-sizing: inherit; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent;\">only record from allowed countries\/devices\/operating systems\/browsers<span>&nbsp;<\/span><\/b>to create a whitelist or select<span>&nbsp;<\/span><b style=\"box-sizing: inherit; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent;\">never record from blocked countries\/devices\/operating systems\/browsers<span>&nbsp;<\/span><\/b>to create a blacklist<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Click<span>&nbsp;<\/span><b style=\"box-sizing: inherit; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent;\">Select locations\/devices\/systems\/browsers<span>&nbsp;<\/span><\/b>to pick which ones should or shouldn&#8217;t be recorded (depending on what you chose in the previous step)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"image-block\">    <div class=\"image-instance\">\n                    <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"image\" src=\"https:\/\/help.uxtweak.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/1-107.png\" alt=\"Choose whom to target\" \/>\n                <div class=\"right-container\">\n            <div class=\"text\">\n                                    <h4>Choose whom to target<\/h4>\n                                                    <p>For locations, devices, operating systems and browsers, you can select which ones you want to target in your study. You can target absolutely everyone, just a selection of them (whitelist), or everyone except for a selection of them (blacklist).<\/p>\n                            <\/div>\n            <div class=\"links\">\n\n            <\/div>\n        <\/div>\n    <\/div>\n    \n\n    <div class=\"image-instance\">\n                    <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"image\" src=\"https:\/\/help.uxtweak.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/2-84.png\" alt=\"Creating whitelists and blacklists\" \/>\n                <div class=\"right-container\">\n            <div class=\"text\">\n                                    <h4>Creating whitelists and blacklists<\/h4>\n                                                    <p>To pick locations, devices, operating systems or browsers to be or not to be targeted, simply check the right ones on the list.<\/p>\n                            <\/div>\n            <div class=\"links\">\n\n            <\/div>\n        <\/div>\n    <\/div>\n    <\/div>\n\n\n<h2 id=\"block-certain-ip-addresses-from-being-recorded\" class=\"heading-block\" tabindex=\"0\">Block certain IP addresses from being recorded<a class=\"copy-link\" title=\"Copy link\" data-id=\"block-certain-ip-addresses-from-being-recorded\">&nbsp;<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/help.uxtweak.com\/wp-content\/themes\/uxtweak\/public\/assets\/images\/icons\/link.svg\" alt=\"Copy link\" \/><\/a><\/h2>\n\n\n<ul class=\"bullet-list\">\n<li>Website Testing allows you to block certain IP addresses or IP ranges (e.g. if you want to block recording sessions from your own team)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Either insert an exact IP adress or define an IP range using wildcards (e.g. 192.168.1.*)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Click<span>&nbsp;<\/span><b style=\"box-sizing: inherit; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent;\">Add IP<span>&nbsp;<\/span><\/b>to insert another IP address\/range to block<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>For example: You can use this feature to add the IP address of your company router. By doing so, you can prevent recording of sessions coming from your own employees.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"image-block\">    <div class=\"image-instance\">\n                    <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"image\" src=\"https:\/\/help.uxtweak.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/3-56.png\" alt=\"Blocking IPs\" \/>\n                <div class=\"right-container\">\n            <div class=\"text\">\n                                    <h4>Blocking IPs<\/h4>\n                                                    <p>You block both IPs and whole IP ranges by adding them into the blocked IP list.<\/p>\n                            <\/div>\n            <div class=\"links\">\n\n            <\/div>\n        <\/div>\n    <\/div>\n    <\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In this help, we&#8217;ll discuss how to use the Screening tab to:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":2292,"menu_order":6,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"content-type":"","inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2859","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uxtweak.com\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2859","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uxtweak.com\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uxtweak.com\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uxtweak.com\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uxtweak.com\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2859"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.uxtweak.com\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2859\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3329,"href":"https:\/\/www.uxtweak.com\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2859\/revisions\/3329"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uxtweak.com\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2292"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uxtweak.com\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2859"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uxtweak.com\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2859"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uxtweak.com\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2859"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}