Portal Activity Report - Aggregator System Load

Hey Everyone,
What is everyone's impression of the Portal Activity Report? Is it helpful? Do we really have anyother options to get valid reports on usuage? Also, what type of load does the Aggregator really put on its server?
Thanks

Hi Craig
Gives good stats around the Users Logged on (or is it really sessions!) as well as PCD contents that are accessed by end users. So for example if you wanted to know which particular iViews arent being used much by end users you could revisit them and look at changing them or removing them.
You could by looking at the users logged in try and come up with which region the users logged in from or the business unit and then try and address the scenario of why a certain business unit does have many users using the Portal.
Now to the more technical aspect:
Out of the box you dont need to do much to get it going, check out: http://help.sap.com/saphelp_nw04/helpdata/en/58/728ea01cf64fff996b827f2a06f9b1/frameset.htm
This will give you the details to get it running. Upto SP12 you didnt have the option of putting the password in the aggregator service so a user had to intervene to start the service. However, SP13 onwards this has been reintroduced such that you can schedule it as a Windows task and it will run every day!
Also out of the box you will create iViews based upon Portal Activity Report iView. However there is a downside - it does not allow end users to change the reporting period. This is controlled at an iView property level. But to get around it you could use the Web Service exposed to create your own version which allows for a dynamic date range as well as get the userids of the end users who logged in (this is stored in the DB tables but not exposed by the standard report). Web Service details at: http://help.sap.com/saphelp_nw04/helpdata/en/42/ba25f8b0731d69e10000000a1553f6/content.htm
Also look at NW Developer Guide and Consuming a Web Service for examples on how to use this web service...
Also it integrated with Solution Manager Diagnostics! So can be quite handy...especially for the big bosses to look at some figures
Hope this helps...
Ankit
PS - Feel free to use the Points system in SDN. Quite a neat tool

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How to execute the Portal Activity Report

Hello,
In the System Administration -> System Configuration-> Service Configuration Editor
Under Applications->com.sap.portal.activityreport.core-> Services->ActivityReport and I have configured the report.
I saved I have restarted the service to effect the changes and in Portal Catalog
Application->com.sap.portal.activityreport.core and I have administrated the changes. The Application Details Editor is displayed.
I have clicked the Restart the portal also.
I would like to know how to execute this Portal Activity Report after making this configuration.
Can anyone help me.
Thnx in advance
cheers
Kris

Hi Kris,
here an example with steps:
1. Navigate to Content Administration -> Portal Content
2. Step into a test folder and right click on the folder to create a new iView
2. Select the template "Portal Activity Report iView"
   Name: Daily User Logins
   Technical Name: DailyUserLogins
3. Open the newly created iView and define the following parameters
   under "Specify report content"
      Start of Reporting: Date 01.01.2005 and Time: 08:00
      End of Reporting: Date 31.12.2005 and Time: 24:00
      Time Unit for Reporting: Daily
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      Information to Report: Number of users logged on
You have created a new reporting iView, aggregating information about the number of anonymous and authenticated users on a daily basis.
Hope this helps,
Robert

Can the Portal Activity Report show unique users per page?

Hello all
I guess this is a rather simple question, but can someone tell me if the portal activity report can show a count of unique users per page per week for instance?
Or will it just show which users have visited the page in a list without aggregating them to a number? And if the users are aggregated to a number, is it only uniwue users that are counted for the given period?
Regards,
Martin

Hi sogaard,
It shows the no of unique logons.isnt it.
Try these blogs
https://www.sdn.sap.com/irj/sdn/weblogs?blog=/pub/wlg/5497
https://www.sdn.sap.com/irj/sdn/weblogs?blog=/pub/wlg/5436
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Portal Activity Report -- Simplification?

Hi all,
 I've been working with the Portal Activity Report iView for a couple of weeks now trying to develop some metrics for our company to measure the portal usage by. I didn't have any problems with the user reports, but I had a lot of issues with the iview/page reports. Although I sucessfully found and charted the daily data, it took a painstakingly long time because of several factors:
 - There was so much data that I had to shift through for about 1.5 months, upwards of 11000 rows.
 - I did not need most of the data as this is the first report being generated for the company, they just want more general metrics rather than detailed metrics. However, the company may still want reports on the other data later on, so we can't just disable the collection of data on most of our iViews.
 - The format of the date column in the iView/Page report did not sort well in Excel. Instead, I had to convert the dates to the more traditional mm/dd/yyyy format so that they sorted properly. This didn't take too long, but it was still an issue.
 - Unfortunately, when the portal was deployed, and still now, we do not have naming conventions for our iViews. This resulted in there being many object names (column heading) that were the same even though they were different iViews and pages (for example, an "About" iView exists on many pages). The only way to differentiate them was based on the PCD location, which is very long and not the best way to have to look at and sort through data.
 - Lastly, we only collected data for iViews/Pages that got at least 2 hits. This was fine for iViews/Pages that usually got 10 or more hits per day. However, for iViews that didn't get 2 on any given day, no data was reported. This is what we intended, obviously. But it became a problem when I went to go graph the data because I was using line charts with multiple lines (series) on them (for example, I grouped all the different search iViews onto one line chart to compare which search pages are getting used the most). Here is an example graph that I had to create dates and 0's for because the bottom two series had days were missing some days because they got less than 2 hits: <a href="http://img509.imageshack.us/img509/7365/examplegraphvd8.jpg">Example Graph</a>. Some of the series wouldn't have the same number of points because there were some days that were missing because they got less than 2 hits. This meant I had to go back and manually add in rows of missing dates along with 0 hits to make the graph correct.
 So, now that I've detailed the problems and issues, here is my real problem going forward. The executives would like monthly reports on the portal. Ideally, this process would be as automatic as possible. I was hoping people could suggest best practices for gathering and sorting through the data so that it doesn't take anywhere near as much time to group and identify key iViews and pages. Is there any way to selectively download data about iViews/Pages without turning off the data collection on other iViews/Page? Also, is there any way to automate the downloading of the iView/Page and User reports from the portal given a time interval such as every 30 days? Has anyone else run into similar problems in their own positions and, if so, can you make suggestions about how you have improved the reporting and charting process? Any help is greatly appreciated.
Thank you.
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 Chad Sowald
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 Chad Sowald

Hi Ariel,
Check the database table WCR_WEBCONTENTSTAT, and see if any data is being generated. This will determine if the problem is data generation or the reporting of the data.
If there is no data, the only possibility is that the Montiro Hits is false, but this is not the default and is unlikely.
If there is data, check the aggregationlevel field and the timestamp of the data, and create a report for this period and aggregation level. For example, if the aggregation level is "q" generate a quarterly report for the time period.
Hope this helps.
Daniel

Portal Activity Report is not getting updated properly

Hi,
I have created a test portal activity report with the Reporting type set as Page/iView activity. I have added five iViews in this including a yahoo search URL iView. The reporting period interval is set to Fixed Period with the date range that spans for around 10 days.
The issue is, even after hitting these iViews several times, I don't see the portal activity report getting updated. Only for the yahoo search, I can see no. of Users as 1 and no. of Hits as 4 as a previous day report (today being friday, I could see thursday's yahoo iView report).
Here are the pre-liminary settings that I've done:
1. All the iViews have the 'Monitor Hits' as 'true'.
2. The Activate Data Collection is set to 'true' in the 'DataCollectionHook' that is available under com.sap.portal.activitydatacollector Service
3. The properties viz., Activate Portal Activity Report, Gather iView statistics, Page statistics..etc are all set to 'true' in the ActivityReport Service
4. I could see that the last aggregation time (in GMT) keeps changing every one hour without any problem.
Any help would be appreciated.
Thanks in advance!
Regards,
Yuvaraj SG

Hi Raghu,
I tried as per your suggestion. At first, I thought that it's working. But, the report came out only for one day (thursday's report) and there weren't any more reports after that. So, I don't think this approach is working in my case! Moreover, for me the requirement is that the iViews have to be in some other portal roles and the Activity Report iView will be in a different portal role.
So, I am currently checking the SAP Note 1084379 as Sandeep has quoted.
Thanks for your help!
Regards,
Yuvaraj SG
Edited by: yuvaraj s g on Jul 13, 2009 8:09 PM

Portal activity report(image problem).

Hi All,
I have a problem in Portal Activity report of Number of users who logged on.
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Kavitha

I am using ORACLE.
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How to view the Users in the Portal Activity Report

Hello,
Can anyone tell me how to view the Report of users who have logged in a specific time. For Example I would like to view the users who have logged in between 9.00 am and 9.15 am. Is it possible to view mentioning the country name?
Please explain me in detail how to view the Report.
Thnx in Advance
cheers,
Murali

hi,
You can certainly do it for hourly basis but i am not sure whether it could be done quarter an hour basis. Also The portal nodes within a cluster can be in different time zones, yet the activity data from all nodes are aggregated together and reported together. To enable the reporting of hourly data from different time zones, portal activity reports display hourly data based on the GMT time zone.
Do see the documentation
http://help.sap.com/saphelp_nw04/helpdata/en/fb/144120ea5b4e9c9385d493a578d6c9/frameset.htm
Weblog :Portal SP9: Portal Activity Report
Regards,
Ganesh N

Portal Activity Report - WCR_USERPAGEUSAGE is empty

Hi all,
I want to create custom Portal Activity Reports.
I followed this link:
http://help.sap.com/saphelp_nw04/helpdata/en/48/6aa9429b930b31e10000000a1550b0/content.htm
The table WCR_USERPAGEUSAGE has no data.
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'Monitor Users' is set to 'true' on some pages.
p.s
'Activity Data Collector' is also started but as for as I know this
service creates activity files in the file system that has nothing to dowith the WCR tables.
How do I solve it?
Regards,
Omri

Solved by SAP support after implementing note 1084379 (the latest version of the Portal Activity Report tool).
Omri

Reg:- Runtime Exception on preview of Portal Activity Report Editor iView

Hi All,
I am trying to preview the iView, "Portal Activity Report Editor" located under Portal Content -> Content Provided by SAP -> Admin Interfaces -> Admin iView Templates -> Portal Editors under Content Administration role.
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#1.5 #0014C263546200A5000008B900000CEC000450DE5CE9A528#1214815878685#com.sap.portal.applicationFramework.tools.wizardframework#sap.com/irj#com.sap.portal.applicationFramework.tools.wizardframework#<User_ID>#152806##n/a##b3602110468111dd9e8e0014c2635462#SAPEngine_Application_Thread[impl:3]_56##0#0#Fatal#1#/System/Server#Java###wizard session No: 429: could not instantiate pane instance of type com.sapportals.admin.wizardframework.core.ClassNameAndConstructorArgs@1663bd## #1.5 #0014C263546200A5000008BA00000CEC000450DE5CE9A6F1#1214815878685#System.err#sap.com/irj#System.err#<User_ID>#152806##n/a##b3602110468111dd9e8e0014c2635462#SAPEngine_Application_Thread[impl:3]_56##0#0#Error##Plain###Jun 30, 2008 4:51:18 AM com.sap.portal.portal [SAPEngine_Application_Thread[impl:3]_56] Error: Exception ID:04:51_30/06/08_15351_4495550
#1.5 #0014C263546200A5000008BC00000CEC000450DE5CE9B605#1214815878685#com.sap.portal.portal#sap.com/irj#com.sap.portal.portal#<User_ID>#152806##n/a##b3602110468111dd9e8e0014c2635462#SAPEngine_Application_Thread[impl:3]_56##0#0#Error#1#/System/Server#Java###Exception ID:04:51_30/06/08_15351_4495550
[EXCEPTION]
#1#com.sapportals.portal.prt.component.PortalComponentException: Error in service call of Portal Component
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Component class : com.sap.portal.webreport.editor.ActivityReportEditor
User : <User_ID>
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 at com.sapportals.portal.prt.core.PortalRequestManager.callPortalComponent(PortalRequestManager.java:328)
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Pavithra

Hi Sandeep,
Thank you for your inputs.
I had raised an OSS Message with SAP some days ago on this issue. SAP has replied back saying that only users with Content Administration role can have access to configure portal acyivity report. All other users can only view the results.
Regards,
Pavithra

Portal Activity report Iview - All Zeros !?!

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I followed to documentation step by step to enable the "Portal Activity Iview" in operations. I always get zeros instead of correct values when I preview the Iview.
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Hi,
I suspect you have not configured your data collection service properly
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Could someone say, which tables in database have information for Portal Activity Report?
I need to build my own report which I cant build using standart Portal Activity Report template.
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you really shouldn't access SAP portal db tables. These tables and the structure can change and SAP won't communicate this. This will give you more controll about the reports, as more data is collected.
The data stored in the DB tables for the PAR are only aggregated data. If you need more detailed data, the PAR data won't help you. In fact, what can be displayed with the PAR data in the DB, can be achieved with the PAR reports.
If you need to generate your own activity reports, you should considre using the other possibilities delivered with SAP Portal, like the Activity Data Collector:
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I have configured the Activity Data Collector (ADC) and it is working as designed.
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HI Gurus,
What is the need of portal activity report.
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Thanks in Advance,
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Hi Dharani,
The portal activity report feature enables portal administrators to gather and
present information about portal activity, including information about the users who logged on to the portal and about the content that was viewed.
To start the Portal Activity report tool.follow these steps:
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--->Select System Configuration & Browse to Service Configuration.
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--->In Applications select the folder com.sap.portal.activityreport.core . Inside that browse to Services.
--->select ActivityReport and set the activate property to true.
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Thnx in advance.
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Hello,
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cheers
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Portal Activity report iview

Hi
I created a portal activity iView when i preview it and click on Download Report button it is giving an empty report
any help is appreciated
regards
ambicasony

hi ,
here by attaching a few articles regarding portal activities.
Mysteries of the Portal Activity Report II,
Portal Activity Report - Error,
Mysteries of the Portal Activity Report III,
Mysteries of the Portal Activity Report,
The Final Word (Hopefully) on the Portal Activity Report
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regards
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