Features and Modules

How do I add values to a chart report?

Once a chart has been added to a report, you can edit chart preferences by clicking the settings gear in the top right corner of the chart and selecting Edit.
In the Appearance tab, select Values to display the chart with values. For more information see Widgets.

Note - when filtering the report by a customized date range, select Show X axis margins to display chart values for both ends of the x-axis as well.

How do I share a report?

How do I display targeted content on a SharePoint list using the Behavior Targeting module?

In this article, we will describe how you can automatically exclude items from a SharePoint list using the Behavioral Targeting module.

As an example, we will assume that you have a "News Items" list, and you want to display items based on the location of your visitors.

Step one: Create a new "Target Market" column

The first thing you should do is add a new column that will hold the target market the item is relevant to (in the example below we called it "Target Market" and the value is the name of the country we want this item to be targeted to)

How do I execute CardioLog service components immediately?

1. In the navigation pane, browse to CardioLog Analytics > Administration > CardioLog Schedule Services > Click on the desired service component > Select "Once" as the service schedule type > Click OK to restart the CardioLog Scheduling Service immediately. For more details see How to Edit a Service Component.
2. In versions lower than 2.0.8.0, restart the CardioLog Scheduling Service windows service manually from Windows Services.
3. After the service component execution is completed (For more information about following the execution process, see Troubleshooting), set the service schedule type back to the desired schedule type, and Restart the CardioLog Scheduling Service.

How can I view surveys results in a SharePoint webpart?

In order to view survey results through a web part do the following:

1. Create a Page Viewer webpart in SharePoint. The page URL will be the survey report page. For more information, see Microsoft SharePoint support.
2. In order to retrieve the survey report page URL, using the navigation pane, go to CardioLog Analytics > Visitor Engagement > Surveys > Click on the desired survey "Reports" button > Right Click anywhere on the report page > Select "Properties" > Copy the URL address.

How do I monitor authenticated users in an anonymous environment after they sign in?

How can I view my top inactive pages?

In the Page Views report, click the settings gear in the Page Views Table to edit the table preferences, In the Advanced, set the Minimum value to 0 in order to view the top inactive pages.

To view the top inactive sites/documents/lists/list items etc. use the Page Views by Type table.

Does CardioLog track document downloads within SharePoint libraries?

What is the row limit for CardioLog Lite reports?

Can I group reporting data by SharePoint user profiles and Audiences in addition to users or Active Directory groups?

Why do the CardioLog Lite charts display a Flash loading image, but the data fails to load.

What kind of information is transmitted from the CardioLog server to the Intlock web servers?

Why is the Active Directory Updates status "Error reading log file" in the Diagnostics Dashboard?

Confirm that theActive Directory Updates service is configured correctly:

1. In the navigation pane, go to Administration > System Configuration > User Categories Management
2. Click the Active Directory category.
3. Enter the Active Directory connection string, such as - mydomain.com (without the server name), and then Save.
4. In the navigation pane, go to Administration > CardioLog Scheduling Service.
5. Restart the CardioLog Scheduling service from the top right corner of the main window.

Does CardioLog track outbound navigation from my portal to non-SharePoint sites?

How do I create more efficient CardioLog reports?

1. Number of reports per dashboard - Limit the number of reports in a dashboard to a maximum of Remove unnecessary reports from your dashboard.
2. Report Filters - Make sure that the reports are limited to only the pages or items you would like to monitor and not ALL subpages, when relevant.
   
   • To filter out AD users and groups, define a black list rule and avoid using the NOT (!) condition.
3. Report Scheduling Type - Verify that the report scheduling type (daily/weekly/monthly) is in correspondence to the report date range, for example:
   • When a report's date range is "Last Month", schedule it to run once a month.
   • When a report's date range is "Last 30 Days", schedule it to run once a day.
4. Report Type - "By URL" Reports - Avoid using the "By URL" reports (ie. "Page Views by URL") unless fully necessary. When creating a report for a web page or site, find the page using the Object Explorer, and use the appropriate tree item as the source of your report.
   • Use the "By URL" reports only for: Web sites which do not exist in Object Explorer; Retrieving URL Parameters in the report; Tracking banner and button clicks; Tracking custom events
   • Set the Source URL as detailed as possible (avoid using only the default "http://" prefix)
   1. Chart Reports - Avoid using unnecessary data selection (specific/aggregated)
5. Number of Scheduled Reports - Any scheduled reports which are no longer in use should be either deleted or edited to no longer run regularly.
6. Real Time Reporting - Use the CardioLog Analysis Center for real time queries and investigating past periods, or create an Ad-Hoc report and generate reports manually when you need them.

What are the differences between Specific and Aggregated (Home Page vs. All Pages)?

CardioLog monitors many types of portal events including views, updates, and searches for any object in the organization's hierarchical tree. Object Explorer contains the hierarchical list of your SharePoint objects that are monitored by CardioLog. Based on this hierarchical structure, CardioLog performs various query aggregations (eg. the number of page views for a page and all its child pages).

• Specific (Home Page) - data is displayed for a single selected item in the Object Explorer
• Aggregated (All Pages) - data is displayed for a selected item and all its child items in the Object Explorer.

CardioLog generates reports about portal usage and displays them as Tables, Charts or Meters:

• Meters can display data in both "Specific" and "Aggregated" modes (eg, the "Page Views" Meter displays the number of page views for the selected page and all child pages by default, but can be configured to display the number of page views for a single page in the Meter "Advanced" settings).
• Charts can display data in both "Specific" and "Aggregated" modes (eg, the "Page Views" Chart displays the number of page views for the selected page in the "Specific" setting, and the number of page views for the selected page and all child pages in the "Aggregated" setting).
• Tables display data in "Aggregated" mode. Each table row displays data in "Specific" mode (eg, the "Page Views" Table displays a list of items included on the selected page and all its child pages and items. The number of page views for each item is specific to that item URL.

Are the report links unique and static?

What actions should I take first when troubleshooting errors in CardioLog?

First, answer the following questions: 

1. Which CardioLog edition and version are you using? (You can find this information from the navigation pane in CardioLog by clicking Administration and then selecting Product License)
2. Are you encountering a data collection issue (tracking agent), a reporting issue (CardioLog UI and reports), or a CardioLog Windows Service issue?

Next, here are some first aid actions -

Data Collection Issues

1. Browse within your SharePoint portal and press Ctrl+F12. Verify that you see the CardioLog tracking agent pop-up with a valid ID number.
2. If the ID shows "None" - press Ctrl+F10 and send us the prompt content.
3. If you cannot see the CardioLog tracking agent pop-up, verify that the CardioLog tracking code is installed correctly (See Troubleshooting the Tracking Agents for more information)
4. A new agent console replaced the Ctrl+F12 popup from version 2.0.5.0 and up. The console will be visible only to users with a link to it. Follow the instructions in http://server:port/CardioLog/Configuration/AgentConsoleBookmarklet.aspx (edit the CardioLog server name and port) to add the agent console link to your browser.
   a) Click the "Agent Console" bookmark and wait for several seconds. Verify you see the tracking agent console.
   b) Click the "Only events" tab. The last line should say: "events: event sent. status: 0"

Reporting Issues

To troubleshoot empty usage reports, see Troubleshooting Empty Reports

CardioLog Windows Service Issue

1. Verify that CardioLog Windows Services have been started.
2. Send us the log files (*.log) from - [CardioLog Installation Folder]\CardioLogScheduleServices\Logs
3. To troubleshoot service errors, see Troubleshooting the CardioLog Services

What is the difference between Page Views by URL and Page Views?

What is the difference between client-side (JavaScript page tagging) and server-side (log file analysis) Analytics?

The two main methods for tracking websites and monitoring site usage statistics are JavaScript page tagging and log file analysis.

Server-side web analytics is based on server logs. All HTTP requests and responses come into the server, and they are logged line by line into a file. Log file analysis tools parse the log files and then calculate the usage statistics of a website based on available data.

Client-side tools, however, do not use server logs for data collection. Instead, they use JavaScript page tagging and only record data when the page has successfully been loaded on a visitor's browser. JavaScript page tagging involves adding a short JavaScript code to each individual page of a website that you would like to collect data from.

CardioLog uses the JavaScript page tagging method. For SharePoint portals and websites, the CardioLog JavaScript tracking code is automatically added to all pages by activating the CardioLog Agent SharePoint Feature. This makes it simple to include or remove the CardioLog tracking agent without editing each page individually.

There are advantages and disadvantages to both types of tracking systems. Due to the two different data collection technologies, the reported data tend to vary slightly between them.

Some scenarios are only tracked with server-side tools:

1. Server-side tools can track information on automated search engine robot requests and other non-human visits, whereas JavaScript page tagging can't detect non-human visitors at all.
2. Server-side tools can track information on failed page requests (error pages with HTTP status codes 401, 403, 404, 500 and redirects with HTTP status codes 301,302), whereas JavaScript page tagging only records a page if it was successfully viewed.
3. Server-side tools can track information on any device or browser that does not support JavaScript (some mobile devices, browsers with JavaScript switched off).

Some scenarios are only tracked with JavaScript page tagging and CardioLog:

1. CardioLog can collect extra client information on browser properties, page elements properties, operating systems, IP address, and even on interaction with Flash movies and other plug-in. It can also detect user interaction like a slight mouse movement or the press of a button. It is easier to add additional information to the JavaScript tag, which can then be collected by the CardioLog server. For example, information about the visitors' partial form completion, or the price of the goods they purchased, can be added in this way. With server-side log file analysis tools, information not normally collected by the web server can only be recorded by modifying the URL.
2. CardioLog tracks individual events that a visitor performs on a website, such as file downloads, clicks, form submissions, their path through the website, etc. This information can be used to help measure where a visitor drops-out of a complicated process, thus providing the business owners with the information that they need to make recommendations for simplification and improvement of that process.
3. With CardioLog, counting is activated by opening the page, not requesting it from the server. If a page is cached, it will not be counted by the server. Cached pages can account for up to one-third of all page views. Not counting cached pages seriously affects many metrics. It is for this reason server-side log analysis tools are not considered suitable for analysis of human activity on websites.

Log files are not 100% accurate. ISP page caching and proxies can twist data and consequently lead to inaccuracies.

JavaScript page tagging is not 100% accurate either, even though it is more accurate than log files. A certain percentage of people disable JavaScript in their browsers. DNS failures and other network issues can result in data not being captured where a log file would work well.

Intlock encourages each customer to perform his/her own load tests.

For more information please see the following article: http://www.intlock.com/intlocksite/productsandservices/cardiolog/cardiolog-analytics-vs-sharepoint-reports-infograph.asp