Question of activity reports

hi, all
I have read from the portal online help Link:[http://help.sap.com/saphelp_nw70/helpdata/en/47/873ca0c84a199ce10000000a42189d/content.htm]
that there are two data collection type for portal objects
Monitor Hits: If set to true, data is collected about the number of people who viewed this page/iVIews, default true
Monitor Users (pages only): If set to true, data about the users who visited this page is collected, default false.
I am not very sure about the second one, is this mean the information of "which user visit which iView" will not not be collected, but only "which page visit by which user" will be collected?
If so, how the activity report of the total impression of each user come out?
Can any expert explain to me ?
Thanks.

Hi,
The Portal Activity Report collects the information about users only for pages, and not for iViews. The reason for not collecting the information also for iviews was due to the assumption that usually in correct content design, iViews are located inside pages, and thus once you have the page, you know what iViews are inside this page.
Collecting less data at the end, helps for better performance (especially if it is considered duplicated data, and hence redundant).
In case you would like to collect more data about the rendered content, that is not provided by the Portal Activity Report, you can use the Activity Data Collector instead, and configure by yourself all the data you would like to collect. This feature is flexible, and is written in order to provide customers the ability to decide themselves what they would like to collect.
You can read more about in under:
http://help.sap.com/saphelp_nw70/helpdata/en/47/873c99c84a199ce10000000a42189d/frameset.htm
Thank you,
Best regards,
Michal

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