Portal Activity Reporting and SAP Business Warehouse

Hi,
Does anyone out there know if SAP has or plans in the near future to deliver Portal Activity Reporting content via SAP Business Warehouse?
I would have thought BW would have been the ideal solution to enable some "out of the box" Portal Content in terms of extracting the data from the tables used for the Portal Activity reports, and then extracting them to BW for slicing/dicing & Presentation.
The current standard Portal Activity reporting does not supply what we need. We don't want to spend time and money developing this ourselves if SAP has plans to deliver it in the near future.
Any news please?
Cheers, Phil G.

Hi,
Check this blog which tells about the future of Activity Reporting..
The Final Word (Hopefully) on the Portal Activity Report
John

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HI Gurus,
What is the need of portal activity report.
and how to create it.
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Hi Dharani,
See http://help.sap.com/saphelp_nw2004s/helpdata/en/58/728ea01cf64fff996b827f2a06f9b1/frameset.htm for details.
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HI Gurus,
What is the need of portal activity report.
and how to create it.
Thanks in Advance,
Dharani

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:
Browse to System Administration.
--->Select System Configuration & Browse to Service Configuration.
--->In Service Configuration go to Applications.
--->In Applications select the folder com.sap.portal.activityreport.core . Inside that browse to Services.
--->select ActivityReport and set the activate property to true.
--->then, Restart the system
In the PCD create a iview from the template Portal Activity Report iView.
Set the type of report and the reporting period.
Add the roles and pages whose report is to be recorded.
Hope this helps you.
Thanks,
Akshay
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Hello experts,
I've been creating reports with SAP Query tools, but been faced with few problems. First of all, there are restricted possibilities in terms of joining tables, and thus I cannot include all the data required for the report.
One solution for this would have been to create separate queries and join the data together in Excel. The problem with this is that there exists no common field that would make sense as for a selection criterion. If the selection criterion is different in different queries, there is the danger of combining false data together, which would eventually result with distorted data.
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The answers are yes - and thousands of companies have gone down this route
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Hi,
I need help for follwong topics:
Standard Portal activity report configuration and Universal worklist configuration.
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Hi
Check this
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How to display an USERID on "Portal Activity Report - Pages and iViews"

HI,All.
I have a question.
It is as follows.
A purpose：
iView of EP is used and called for contents of the WEB-AP server of various (Tomcat(Java)).
The acquisition of "EP login user ID" is difficult from the log of each WEB-AP server.
It wants to acquire information on "Which iView which EP login user how many times executed?" by using EP, and analysis/to use it.
A present specification：
"Only information on "Number of users using iView" can be acquired in this function
though "Page and iView of portal activity report" of EP was verified to achieve the above-mentioned purpose.
It is impossible to analyze it, that is, "Which user ID used iView?".
A question：
In "Page and iView of portal activity report"
How should I do to display "Which iView how many times did each EP login user execute?"?
Or, I want to know if there is a table with the informations.
Environment：
EP6.0　SP18
OS:WindowsServer2003 EE sp1 rc2
CPU:Xeon3.2GHz x2
MEMORY:4GB
HDD:36GB*2
Other:Clustering
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matsu.

Hi,
You can try Setting the 'Monitor Users' property of the pages to 'Yes'. We did this for one of our portal but there seem to be a slight performance trade-off.
Please award point if helpful.

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
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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
   under "Configure report options"
      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
Hope this helps
Regards
Vineeth

Portal Activity Report

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I am working on EP 7.0 SP 18. I have created an Activity Report iView to track which users have used my WebDynpro application.My Wedynpro application is on a page and the Monitor User property of the page is also turned on.
I am able to see the data for some days but it does not show any data for the later days.
What could be the problem? The raw data gets saved in the portal database.Is there any limit to the data that can be stored.I configured my Service to save data every 5 minutes.
Pls Help.
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Saurabh

Try taking the report every hour or so Rather than every 5 minutes .. as far as i know there is No limit to the amount of portal activity that you can store other than the actual size of the database ..
other than that i am pasting a few links which you might know but might still be of some use to you . ..
http://help.sap.com/saphelp_nw70/helpdata/EN/47/873c9dc84a199ce10000000a42189d/frameset.htm
In the link below this topic has already been discussed but not the detail you are requesting ...
Portal Actvity reporting
and
http://help.sap.com/saphelp_nw04/helpdata/de/b5/c652070d474533a18a930112a4b926/frameset.htm
Regards ,
Manthan.

Portal Activity Report with Selection criteria

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I have created an iview using 'Portal Activity Report' template, added the iview to page and page is added to the role which is created for this report. Also, users were assigned to the new role. When users go to portal and see this report, they are seeing the final output of this report along with the 'Download Report' option.
My requirement is to give selection screen option (Type of report and Reporting period) to users. So that users will change the selection criteria and run the report as per their need. Please advice me on how to do this.
Thanks in advance.
Swapna.

swapna,
you can do this by creating a webdynpro application for accessing the database tables, the list of data base tables is in this [help |http://help.sap.com/saphelp_nw04/helpdata/en/48/6aa9429b930b31e10000000a1550b0/frameset.htm]document and use web dynpro application to connect to that tables. Check this thread for[ dynpro and database tables |dynpro and database tables;
regards
Mahesh

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).

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I have a problem in Portal Activity report of Number of users who logged on.
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Error while 'Crystal Report for Sap Business One' addon started

Hi,
I have try to install Crystal Report for Sap Business One (Addon Versione number 2.0.0.7).
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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,
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