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paride.letizia-aizoon - 10/21/2013 9:01:44 AM

Statistical information of opened documents by users

Hi everybody,

I am newbie of Kentico CMS and I have some questions relating to it.
I am creating a Intranet with Kentico and the focus of this Intranet is:

1) having a counter that counts all the users that opened (viewed) a certain document (from a document library) [a numbered documents counter].
2) having a intern newsletter among the employers of all company departments.

My question is if Kentico CMS implements natively these features or if I have to build them manually.

Thanks to everybody in advance,
i look forward to hearing from you.

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Brenden Kehren - 10/21/2013 11:56:13 AM

RE:Statistical information of opened documents by users

Right now there isn't statistical information on documents stored in the media library. But an alternative would be to store your documents within the content tree. This will allow you to retrieve statistical information on individual files considerablly better than if it were in the media library. I believe this statistical support is coming in future versions for the media library but could be wrong.

Regarding newsletters, yes with the correct license you can send newsletters to lists of people without any customization.

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paride.letizia-aizoon - 10/21/2013 12:42:17 PM

RE:Statistical information of opened documents by users

First of all thank you for the answer,
could you explain better che content tree concept?
Why could this approach solve my problem? Imagine a document library in which every document is correlated with a number, this number is a counter of all who viewed/opened the documet (I would like also the users list when I click on that number!!). I would realize this component.
Is it possible?
Thank you in advance


Member	paride.letizia-aizoon - 10/22/2013 3:01:28 AM RE:Statistical information of opened documents by users Could anyone help me please?

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Brenden Kehren - 10/22/2013 7:53:36 AM

RE:Statistical information of opened documents by users

Within Kentico the documents/files stored in the content tree have statistical information stored with them (views, clicks, etc.). Documents/files stored within a document library or what Kentico calls a Media Library do not have statistical information stored with them. So you cannot see how many times someone has clicked the link on a page or downloaded a file. This is just a simple out of the box thought.

You can write your own code to handle this as well but out of the box, I don't believe what you want will fully be supported.

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paride.letizia-aizoon - 10/22/2013 8:11:43 AM

RE:Statistical information of opened documents by users

Ok, thank you very much.
So are you saying that if I want to menage statistical information with a document, I should use a content tree but, if I use a content tree, I will lost the normal documents view in the web page (as layout), i.e. the document library will appear as a content tree and not as a list. Right? There is any mistakes in what I said?

Thanls for all

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Brenden Kehren - 10/22/2013 8:46:00 AM

RE:Statistical information of opened documents by users

No you won't lose any abilities of storing the file(s) in the content tree, in fact, you will gain more abilities than if you were to store them in the Media Library. The only downfall is performance. Typically if you have large numbers if files, they are better suited to be stored in the library vs. the content tree.


Member	paride.letizia-aizoon - 10/22/2013 9:25:02 AM RE:Statistical information of opened documents by users Ok, thank you. At this point, I don't know if Kentico could help me because, if I desire: 1) A documents list with the possibility to view a click counter 2) A massive loading of documents Kentico, perhaps, does not manage both of these things, right?


Member	paride.letizia-aizoon - 10/24/2013 2:59:44 AM RE:Statistical information of opened documents by users Is it right what i wrote?


Kentico Legend	Brenden Kehren - 10/24/2013 9:16:21 AM RE:Statistical information of opened documents by users Out of the box those items aren't available but it doesn't mean they can't be done. Kentico has a nice API to work with and you could add those features if you want.

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