Intranet - recent pages

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Hi
I have an intranet that users have to login to enter.

Does anyone know how I can create a page or an asset listing that lists all the pages that the user visits most - or has visited recently?

Thanks

Tim

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There is a way to do this kind of thing with the Access History Design Area. I worked on an interesting implementation for a very large intranet some years ago that used the area in way that let people save pages as they found them. I don’t think you will be able to do the most visited thing but you can do the recently visited. I believe the area only builds for the current session so it will be cleared between logins unless you lengthen your session times to something ridiculous. You can find details on the area in the manuals - design manual

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Is this for the purpose of gathering statistics, or displaying the information back to the user about their own recent pages? If it's for gathering statistics you might be better off changing the information that is supplied to your apache logs. In Matrix system configuration -> apache configuration, there is an option to add user data to your logs, which you can then use a web statistics analyser to display. This will allow you to gather statistics on visited pages for logged in users that match up a username/id with the page viewed, and even to run trends analysis on usage (depending on your statistics analysis software)


If it's to display information back to the user, you could use the method that Shane described, or possibly writing the information to a cookie via javascript.

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Thanks Shane
yeah I tried inserting the code that's in the manual: http://manuals.matrix.squiz.net/designs/chapters/access-history-design-area into the parse file. Upon committing the edit, I got an error that says "Asset Type "" is not installed in this system, unable to set "type_codes" [CORE0145]" Screen grab attached.



Also, do you have any tips on some matrix features, tips or tricks on building an intranet in Matrix?

Thanks

Tim


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There is a way to do this kind of thing with the Access History Design Area. I worked on an interesting implementation for a very large intranet some years ago that used the area in way that let people save pages as they found them. I don't think you will be able to do the most visited thing but you can do the recently visited. I believe the area only builds for the current session so it will be cleared between logins unless you lengthen your session times to something ridiculous. You can find details on the area in the manuals - design manual

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Hi Anthony
thanks for your reply

The purpose is for "displaying the information back to the user about their own recent pages?"

Thanks

Tim




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Is this for the purpose of gathering statistics, or displaying the information back to the user about their own recent pages? If it's for gathering statistics you might be better off changing the information that is supplied to your apache logs. In Matrix system configuration -> apache configuration, there is an option to add user data to your logs, which you can then use a web statistics analyser to display. This will allow you to gather statistics on visited pages for logged in users that match up a username/id with the page viewed, and even to run trends analysis on usage (depending on your statistics analysis software)



If it's to display information back to the user, you could use the method that Shane described, or possibly writing the information to a cookie via javascript.

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Awesome thanks!
I've create a search report asset

Will that start recording from now or will I be able to see past searchs from say last week?

Thanks

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Thanks Shane

yeah I tried inserting the code that's in the manual: http://manuals.matrix.squiz.net/designs/chapters/access-history-design-area into the parse file. Upon committing the edit, I got an error that says "Asset Type "" is not installed in this system, unable to set "type_codes" [CORE0145]" Screen grab attached.

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I know you have found an alternate solution but I have investigated this issue and it has to do with some incorrect quotation marks on the page ( ” instead of " etc.) The manuals were originally created in Word and the content was then pasted to the site. This has obviously caused some issues with Word's curly quotes not being compatible with the parse file. I'll be sure to fix up these pages. Thanks.