Portal Activity reports inside BI
All
I hope i post this question in the whrigt forum.
At first some system information:
BI 7.0 java and abap instance on service pack 13
Enterprise Portal 7.0 with support pack 13.
We already created some activity reports with the iview template SAP provides buth these are not complete for out usage.
We have a new challenge. We want to create activity reports of the portal inside our BI system. So we want to fill cubes with the data collected in the EP and create reports over this data.
I know the portal collects data and stores this data inside the tables: [Link To Help File|http://help.sap.com/saphelp_nw04s/helpdata/en/58/728ea01cf64fff996b827f2a06f9b1/frameset.htm]
WCR_USERSTAT
WCR_WEBCONTENTSTAT
WCR_USERFIRSTLOGON
WCR_USERPAGEUSAGE
[See also this picture|http://help.sap.com/saphelp_nw04s/helpdata/en/b5/c652070d474533a18a930112a4b926/EP_ACTIV_image002.gif]
The first question is how to import the data from the EP system inside the BI system?
Edited by: J. Beckers on Jul 7, 2008 8:50 AM Added links
If the data is stored in those tables, and those tables are in ERP, then just create an extractor to pull the information from ERP into BW.
Cheers,
Andrew
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What is meant by Portal Activity Report
HI Gurus,
What is the need of portal activity report.
and how to create it.
Thanks in Advance,
DharaniHi 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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In the Portal Activity Report I would like to see the documents list with number of uploads, number of downloads and the username who have accessed the documents for monthly. Can any one help me where to mention all the details regarding this one. I didn't found anything regarding this in the Portal Activity Report.
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cheers,
MuraliHello,
Can anyone help me solving this problem.
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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
KrisHi 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,
MartinHi 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 -
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
ambicasonyhi ,
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
i hope i have given u the entire documents on portal activity.......u cn check it easily where u have went wrong
regards
bhargava
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Portal Activity Report with Selection criteria
Hi All,
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,
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Mahesh -
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 <b>a lot of issues with the iview/page reports</b>. Although I sucessfully found and charted the <b>daily data</b>, it took a painstakingly long time because of several factors:
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- 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.
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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 <b>suggest best practices</b> 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 <b>any way to selectively download data</b> 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 SowaldHi 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!
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Yuvaraj SGHi 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,
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f: finalize objects on finalization queue
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h: display this help message
l: dump classloader list
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s: dump system and deployment properties
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v: dump thread stack
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0-5: set trace level to <n>
Piglet Version 1.1.35 - 07.12.01
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at sun.plugin.util.AnimationPanel.initBackground(Unknown Source)
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at sun.plugin.util.AnimationPanel.run(Unknown Source)
at java.lang.Thread.run(Unknown Source)
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Thanks in Advance,
KavithaI am using ORACLE.
Actually the iview is the standard par iview, so i have created it from the "iview from Par" and that too in my test server seperately. I have created a new folder and under it i have created this new iview from Par. I have taken the com.sap.km.activityreport.frontend. and under this the activity report component.
I have also restarted the Data collection service. Other than these I did not do any other configurations. Any thing else is required?
Thanks in advance,
kavitha -
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,
Muralihi,
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 -
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.
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Hi ,
I need to show Vendor ID in my Portal activity Report along with other details .This vendor ID I need to fetch From Portal Database.Is there any way to code in PAR/Webdynpro or use any standard Template which will allow me to fetch Vendor ID of the user who access that Portal Object.
Response required Urgently!!!!
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VarshaI understand that the PAR or portal activity reports have some limitations and hence as an alternative try using the google analytics which has some enhanced functionalities which could possibly satisfy your requirement....
https://www.sdn.sap.com/irj/sdn/go/portal/prtroot/docs/library/uuid/50b94044-7008-2b10-1680-c04e4526367b -
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.
The 'Data Collection Service' is started.
Portal version is: 7.00.17
'Monitor Hits' is set to 'true' on all iviews.
'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,
OmriSolved by SAP support after implementing note 1084379 (the latest version of the Portal Activity Report tool).
Omri -
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
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