What is meant portal activity report

HI Gurus,
What is the need of portal activity report.
and how to create it.
Thanks in Advance,
Dharani

Hi Dharani,
See http://help.sap.com/saphelp_nw2004s/helpdata/en/58/728ea01cf64fff996b827f2a06f9b1/frameset.htm for details.
Hope it helps
Detlev

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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,
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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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.
Message was edited by:
 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 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

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.
But, when I previee the iView, I get a RunTime Exception as follows:
#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
Component : pcd:portal_content/com.sap.pct/admin.templates/iviews/editors/com.sap.portal.activityReportEditor
Component class : com.sap.portal.webreport.editor.ActivityReportEditor
User : <User_ID>
 at com.sapportals.portal.prt.core.PortalRequestManager.handlePortalComponentException(PortalRequestManager.java:973)
 at com.sapportals.portal.prt.core.PortalRequestManager.callPortalComponent(PortalRequestManager.java:343)
 at com.sapportals.portal.prt.core.PortalRequestManager.dispatchRequest(PortalRequestManager.java:136)
 at com.sapportals.portal.prt.core.PortalRequestManager.dispatchRequest(PortalRequestManager.java:189)
 at com.sapportals.portal.prt.component.PortalComponentResponse.include(PortalComponentResponse.java:215)
 at com.sapportals.portal.prt.pom.PortalNode.service(PortalNode.java:646)
 at com.sapportals.portal.prt.core.PortalRequestManager.callPortalComponent(PortalRequestManager.java:328)
 at com.sapportals.portal.prt.core.PortalRequestManager.dispatchRequest(PortalRequestManager.java:136)
 at com.sapportals.portal.prt.core.PortalRequestManager.dispatchRequest(PortalRequestManager.java:189)
 at com.sapportals.portal.prt.core.PortalRequestManager.runRequestCycle(PortalRequestManager.java:753)
 at com.sapportals.portal.prt.connection.ServletConnection.handleRequest(ServletConnection.java:240)
 at com.sapportals.portal.prt.dispatcher.Dispatcher$doService.run(Dispatcher.java:547)
 at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method)
 at com.sapportals.portal.prt.dispatcher.Dispatcher.service(Dispatcher.java:407)
 at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:853)
 at com.sap.engine.services.servlets_jsp.server.servlet.InvokerServlet.service(InvokerServlet.java:156)
 at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:853)
 at com.sap.engine.services.servlets_jsp.server.HttpHandlerImpl.runServlet(HttpHandlerImpl.java:401)
 at com.sap.engine.services.servlets_jsp.server.HttpHandlerImpl.handleRequest(HttpHandlerImpl.java:266)
 at com.sap.engine.services.httpserver.server.RequestAnalizer.startServlet(RequestAnalizer.java:386)
 at com.sap.engine.services.httpserver.server.RequestAnalizer.startServlet(RequestAnalizer.java:364)
 at com.sap.engine.services.httpserver.server.RequestAnalizer.invokeWebContainer(RequestAnalizer.java:1039)
 at com.sap.engine.services.httpserver.server.RequestAnalizer.handle(RequestAnalizer.java:265)
 at com.sap.engine.services.httpserver.server.Client.handle(Client.java:95)
 at com.sap.engine.services.httpserver.server.Processor.request(Processor.java:175)
 at com.sap.engine.core.service630.context.cluster.session.ApplicationSessionMessageListener.process(ApplicationSessionMessageListener.java:33)
 at com.sap.engine.core.cluster.impl6.session.MessageRunner.run(MessageRunner.java:41)
 at com.sap.engine.core.thread.impl3.ActionObject.run(ActionObject.java:37)
 at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method)
 at com.sap.engine.core.thread.impl3.SingleThread.execute(SingleThread.java:102)
 at com.sap.engine.core.thread.impl3.SingleThread.run(SingleThread.java:172)
Caused by: java.lang.RuntimeException: an Exception occured when instantating class com.sap.portal.admin.editor.pane.EditorPaneWrapper
 at com.sapportals.admin.wizardframework.core.TrivialPaneFactory.getComponent(TrivialPaneFactory.java:54)
 at com.sapportals.admin.wizardframework.core.WizardInstance.doWizard(WizardInstance.java:225)
 at com.sap.portal.admin.editor.Editor.doWizard(Editor.java:605)
 at com.sap.portal.admin.editor.Editor.run(Editor.java:150)
 at com.sap.portal.admin.editor.AbstractEditorComponent.doContent(AbstractEditorComponent.java:59)
 at com.sapportals.portal.prt.component.AbstractPortalComponent.serviceDeprecated(AbstractPortalComponent.java:209)
 at com.sapportals.portal.prt.component.AbstractPortalComponent.service(AbstractPortalComponent.java:114)
 at com.sapportals.portal.prt.core.PortalRequestManager.callPortalComponent(PortalRequestManager.java:328)
 ... 29 more
This happens for all Editor iViews.
Kindly let me know what could be the problem.
Thanks and Regards,
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 Reports Combinations

Dear Portalites,
I am confiuring a Portal Activity Reporting iView. And I have some fundamental issues
The Environment
A. Webdynpro Java Applications running on normal Enterprise Portal Environment
B. Custom Built JAVA applications runing on URL iViews
The Requirements
A. wants Username, date, time, page name (meaningful name for us), session id , browser type (User Agent u2013 to track if the app is accessed using iPad or Desktop).
B. wants number of users accesing an application, technically consisting of several applications provided to users via webdynpro iViews.
What has been done?
For "B" configured Number of users who logged on
The real Issue
. For "B" the report shows anonymous users. What are they? in fact the number of hits for anonymous users are more that authentcated sers. I have all my anonymous users locked. I am finding hard to explaint t for the audits.
. For "B" tried configuring "Details about the users who logged on", but it shows all the users outside the time zone as well!
. For "B" Tried configuring "Page/iView activity", but the user logins eems to have doubled up shwing same hots for iViews and pages. Should I only monitor iView or Page intead of both?
WHAT CAN BE DONE FOR "A"
Regards,
Varun

Hi Varun,
> the number of hits for anonymous users are more that authentcated sers.
> I have all my anonymous users locked.
I don't know your portal setup, but as an anonymous user does not have to log in, locking the users should have no effect (didn't test it, but this is very probable, as locking should only play it's role while logging in).
So, as long as you can access your portal anonymously, you know where the access numbers are from. If not, it's an issue hard to discover remotely in a forum; might be a case for an OSS message (but technically this sounds a bit unprobable for me).
Best regards
Detlev

Portal Activity report Iview - All Zeros !?!

Hello Folks,
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.
What can be wrong? We are using Portal 6.0 SPS 12.
Thanks in advance

Hi,
I suspect you have not configured your data collection service properly
Please refer to the link below to know how exactly the Portal activity report must be configured.You may need to configure the data collection service in order for your iview to start showing data.The aggregator needs to be started ,for this to take place.Please follow the information in the link.In case you have trouble,please checkup if you can manually start the aggregator,which is located in ..jc00j2eeclusterserver0appssap.comirj
ootweb-infportalportalappscom.sap.portal.activityreport.corelibaggregator.bat
Please also refer to this blog:
Portal SP9: Portal Activity Report
Regards,
Harish
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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

Portal activity report, which tables in database?

Hi,
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.
great thanks

Hi,
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:
SAP Help: http://help.sap.com/saphelp_nw70/helpdata/en/47/873c99c84a199ce10000000a42189d/content.htm
br,
Tobias

Guest users in Portal Activity Report

Hi All,
We have implemented Portal Activity Report in our portal. We are tracking only the pages and we have set the property Authentication Scheme to default for all the pages.
The reports are working fine except for the fact that the reports are showing up large number of anonymous users logging in as Guest for e.g. Guest 1, Guest 2, Guest 3 etc. Our landscape has no Anonymous users.
Can anyone tell me why the report is showing up large number of Guest users (Type - Anonymous Users) though we donu2019t have any anonymous Users?
How to get rid of these Anonymous Guest users in the Portal Activity Report?
Kindly help me to resolve this issue.
Regards,
Adren D'Souza

Hi Adren,
The AR shows what it gets.
The first posibility, is somewhere anonymous users do have access to content or some operations are being considered as anonymous.
I suggest to check all the properties which should disable the anonymous, whether there is any content which is exposed as anonymous:
1)Search the roles which are assigned to Guest user.
2)Make sure that the "Guest" user is disabled.
The second possibility u2013 there is an old data in DB tables.
What type of report are we discussing? Is this the "Details about the users who logged on" report?
If it is, check the WCR_* DB tables whether there any u2018au2019 type users.
If there is, I would recommend you to delete those entries ("WHERE USERTYPE = 'a'), it could be the old data, before you have applied the note.
Best Regards,
Victoria Gur
| Installed Base Development Engineer
| NetWeaver Portal Platform
| SAP Labs Israel

Showing Wrong Data in my Portal Activity Report.

Hi all,
I have created a Portal Activity Report which shows the
Details about the users who logged on.
Im trying to show the details of fixed period some what between 2008.for this I have given some fixed period date in the Reporting Period tab.
but the data which is showing on the report is of 2006 n 2007 data...im not getting the data of 2008...not even single record is of 2008.
I have checked with Data Collection Service Configuration setting...it is showing true thr...i tried with restarting that service also but there is no affect to report data...
What to do...plz help...
Thanks and Regards,
Visweswar.

Hi,
The property is called Monitor Users. Set to Yes (default is No).
Hope this helps.
Daniel

How to list the documents in the Portal Activity Report?

Hello,
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.
Thnx in advance.
cheers,
Murali

Hello,
Can anyone help me solving this problem.
Thnx in advance
cheers
Murali

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 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
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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