Glossary

Below is a list of common terms used throughout Glance.

Agent

Your company's representative who supports your visitors in carrying out various tasks such as completing a purchase. Representatives who use Glance to support your visitors are known as subscribers.

CDN

A content delivery network or content distribution network is a geographically distributed network of proxy servers and their data centers.

Glance Address

A subscriber's username on the Glance service. Glance Addresses have the form person.example.glance.net.

Glance Customer

A customer of Glance who subscribes to the Cobrowsing service.

Group ID

A unique ID, a four-, five-, or six- digit number assigned to your company by Glance. You may have separate Group IDs for your development, staging, and production environments.

Guest

An additional party invited to a Cobrowse session.

Masked Element

An element in your company website containing sensitive or confidential data. Masked elements should not be visible to agents.

Masked Field

An input form field in your company website containing sensitive or confidential data such as a social security or credit card number. Masked fields should not be visible to agents.

Production

This is your live site. When you are happy with how Cobrowse looks and performs in your staging environment, you can publish the changes to Production from the Settings page, and those changes will be live—no need to update any code on your production website.

Script Tag

A short snippet of Javacript furnished by Glance. When inserted into a Website's HTML, the Script Tag enables Cobrowsing.

Session

A Cobrowsing encounter between a visitor and an agent. A session may view one or more pages on a Website.

Session Code

A unique session identifier available to both the visitor and agent, allowing the agent to connect to the correct session.

Session Server

A secured server that runs the Glance Cobrowse service, accepting session updates from the visitor and relaying them to the agent. Glance operates multiple Session Servers. Also known as a “CServer.”

Staging

Used for new website changes, where you can test and accept changes such as adjusting colors or text for the UI, masked fields, or new versions of Cobrowse. The staging site may require a different Cobrowse configuration from the production site.

Subscriber

An agent or other person with an account on the Glance service.

Visitor

Anyone navigating your company website. Your agents use Glance Cobrowse to assist your visitors.