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WFLurker
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Does anyone know if it is possible to track hits on how many times people have viewed a public dashboard(BID). I'm currently using WebFocus 7.1.4.

Because users do not have to enter a username/password, I was wondering if there is anyway we can track hits?

Any assistance would be great. Thanks
 
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Tony A
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Can you not track hits using IIS (if that's what you're using) utilities or the like?

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I'm not well versed in IIS. Can you elaborate.


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Tony A
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You'd need to have a word with your support or admin team for the Web Server. Depending upon which webservice you use (IIS, Apache, etc.) there may or may not be utilities allowing you to track hits. Most of them allow tracking of web traffic though.

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The Dashboard application doesn't have any counter. However, you can certainly submit a request with Techsupport requesting this as a New Feature Request.
 
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Francis Mariani
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you can certainly submit a request with Techsupport requesting this as a New Feature Request


Anyone have any success with this? What's the turnaround time?

How about old feature fixes? Smiler


Francis


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Laure
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I'd also like to know if this is possbile? What about for GROUP view dashboards?
My upper management is asking for this information. We are on 7.6 with Apache.


Laure

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FrankDutch
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It's in my opinion impossible to measure how many times people are VIEWING a page, maybe you can count haw many times they open a page, but since there is a lot of caching also that won't give a proper reliable number. But if you can and put it in a database you can build some extra reports....
If you want you can use a javascript that gives the user response of the times he visits the page.
But that is client bases and not sent to the server.




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WFLurker
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At the moment I am tracking logs instead of hits by writing all logs to the public dashboard to a file.
here is an example.
FILEDEF LOG DISK \\WEBFOCUSSERVIER\LOGFOLDER\LOG.DAT (APPEND
-RUN
-SET &DAY_ACCESS = &YYMD;
-SET &TIME = HHMMSS('A8');
-WRITE LOG &DAY_ACCESS&TIME&RPT_NAME
-RUN

I'm running WF 7.1.4


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susannah
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Lurker, there are a lot of shareware hitcounters you can google. i used one which writes to an MSAccess db. WF has a product called Resource Analyzer which tracks lots of stuff of this nature, might work for you.



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dhagen
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When you say "tracking hits", what exactly are you trying to track? Is it when someone logs onto a public/group view? Or, is it more granular, such as tracking all reporting activity?


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