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Anders Hattestad
Anders Hattestad
Jan 7, 2011
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Using Statistics to show view count

In a current project I’m working on we needed a page view count. I first thought about making my own DDS table and add count values to that. But then I though about the Statistic tab in edit mode in EPiServer. What I wanted to do was to get the page count from that

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Did some Google search about how this and did only find one forum post that pointed me in the right direction.

This code

Code Snippet
  1. DateTime start = DateTime.Now;
  2. TimeSpanQuery timeSpanQuery = new TimeSpanQuery();
  3. timeSpanQuery.Root = ((ITransformer)ClassFactory.CreateInstance(typeof(ITransformer), new object[0])).CreateURL(base.CurrentPage.PageLink.ID);
  4. timeSpanQuery.Interval = 5;
  5. timeSpanQuery.Stop = DateTime.Now;
  6. timeSpanQuery.Start = DateTime.Now.AddYears(-4);
  7. TimeSpanAnalyzerView view = new TimeSpanAnalyzerView();
  8. Uri address = new Uri("soap.tcp://localhost/TimeSpanAnalyzerView");
  9. Uri via = new Uri(VirtualPathUtility.AppendTrailingSlash(Settings.Instance.LogServiceUrl.ToString()) + "TimeSpanAnalyzerView");
  10. view.Destination = new EndpointReference(address, via);
  11. var data = view.GetHits(timeSpanQuery);

results in these 3 tables

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and its the first part of the statistic tab information

And this code

Code Snippet
  1. RealTimeAnalyzerView view = new RealTimeAnalyzerView();
  2. Uri address = new Uri("soap.tcp://localhost/RealTimeAnalyzerView");
  3. Uri via = new Uri(VirtualPathUtility.AppendTrailingSlash(Settings.Instance.LogServiceUrl.ToString()) + "RealTimeAnalyzerView");
  4. view.Destination = new EndpointReference(address, via);
  5. ITransformer transformer = (ITransformer)ClassFactory.CreateInstance(typeof(ITransformer), new object[0]);
  6. DataSet data=view.Referrers(transformer.CreateURL(base.CurrentPage.PageLink.ID));

results in

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that is the last part. There are other information that can be retrieved.

 

  1. data = view.LatestUsers(transformer.CreateURL(base.CurrentPage.PageLink.ID));

results in

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and the

Code Snippet
  1. data = view.GetMaxHits(transformer.CreateURL(base.CurrentPage.PageLink.ID));

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Here you will default get max 5 elements if you not change EPnMostVissitPagesMaxCount in the C:\Program Files (x86)\EPiServer\Shared\Services\Log Service\EPiServer.LogService.exe.config

Code Snippet
  1. <sendListener type="EPiServer.Log.Analyzer.RealTimeAnalyzer, EPiServer.Log.Analyzers" method="StoreMessage">
  2.     <!-- The view for the analyzer -->
  3.     <view type="EPiServer.Log.Analyzer.RealTimeAnalyzerView, EPiServer.Log.Analyzers" protocol="TCP/SOAP" endpoint="soap.tcp://localhost/RealTimeAnalyzerView"/>
  4.     <!-- Maximum pages in the published pages queue -->
  5.     <EPnPublishedPagesMaxCount>5</EPnPublishedPagesMaxCount>
  6.     <EPnMostVissitPagesMaxCount>100</EPnMostVissitPagesMaxCount>
  7. </sendListener>

It can seems that the TimeSpanAnalyzerView methods persists and that the RealTimeAnalyzerView is cleared when the server resets. So if you want to have a count of how many times users have accessed on page this is the code that will return that

Code Snippet
  1. TimeSpanQuery timeSpanQuery = new TimeSpanQuery();
  2. timeSpanQuery.Root = ((ITransformer)ClassFactory.CreateInstance(typeof(ITransformer), new object[0])).CreateURL(base.CurrentPage.PageLink.ID);
  3. timeSpanQuery.Interval = 5;
  4. timeSpanQuery.Stop = DateTime.Now;
  5. timeSpanQuery.Start = DateTime.Now.AddYears(-4);
  6. TimeSpanAnalyzerView view = new TimeSpanAnalyzerView();
  7. Uri address = new Uri("soap.tcp://localhost/TimeSpanAnalyzerView");
  8. Uri via = new Uri(VirtualPathUtility.AppendTrailingSlash(Settings.Instance.LogServiceUrl.ToString()) + "TimeSpanAnalyzerView");
  9. view.Destination = new EndpointReference(address, via);
  10. var data = view.GetHits(timeSpanQuery);
  11. string nrofVisits = "";
  12. if (data != null && data.Tables["Total"] != null && data.Tables["Total"].Rows.Count > 0)
  13.     nrofVisits = "" + data.Tables["Total"].Rows[0][0];
  14. if (nrofVisits != "")
  15.     NrOfUnikVisits.Text = string.Format(NrOfUnikVisits.Text, nrofVisits);
Code Snippet
  1. <asp:Literal ID="NrOfUnikVisits" runat="server" Text="{0} visninger" EnableViewState="false" />

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Jan 07, 2011

Comments

Magnus Rahl
Magnus Rahl Jan 11, 2011 10:45 AM

I used this for ranking the top visited pages as you might have gathered from the forum thread. However, apparently this functionality is being deprecated in a future version of EPiServer, or have I been misinformed?

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