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Gitesh - 1/30/2013 8:01:52 PM

Tracking - Media library PDF Download

Hi Guys,

I can see that kentico web analytics is not tracking media libraries download. (Let me know if kentico already has got that feature)

We are using permamnet Url's for media libraries.
I have got few PDF's which I want to track when someone downloads. Below is an example of my pdf link:

/getmedia/dcc6591f-a2a0-4dee-b53f-b9c29c1f8be7/cardiology-research-review-issue-41.pdf.aspx?ext=.pdf

I have tried keeping my Analytics code in ~/CMSPages/GetMediaFile.aspx, but it didn't work (Code below):

<%@ Page Language="C#" AutoEventWireup="true" Inherits="CMSPages_GetMediaFile" CodeFile="GetMediaFile.aspx.cs" %>

<script type="text/javascript">
    var _gaq = _gaq || [];
    _gaq.push(['_setAccount', 'UA-*******-1']);
    _gaq.push(['_trackPageview']);

    (function () {
        var ga = document.createElement('script'); ga.type = 'text/javascript'; ga.async = true;
        ga.src = ('https:' == document.location.protocol ? 'https://ssl' : 'http://www') + '.google-analytics.com/ga.js';
        var s = document.getElementsByTagName('script')[0]; s.parentNode.insertBefore(ga, s);
    })();

</script>

Any other ideas for tracking Media Library PDF downloads?

Thanks
Gitesh Shah


Kentico Legend	Brenden Kehren - 1/31/2013 1:43:19 AM RE:Tracking - Media library PDF Download I asked about this feature back in v4 and v5 and it wasn't available. Not sure if it is now, but guessing not yet.


Kentico Support	kentico_jurajo - 2/10/2013 5:16:08 AM RE:Tracking - Media library PDF Download Hi, Have you tried the approach mentioned in this forum thread? Also, you can add custom logging as described in the documentation. Best regards, Juraj Ondrus

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Gitesh - 4/19/2013 12:30:26 AM

RE:Tracking - Media library PDF Download

HI Juarj,

I have added my code in GetMediaFile.aspx.cs as below, I want only the pdf to be tracked:



protected void SendFile(CMSOutputMediaFile file)
    {
        // Clear response.
        CookieHelper.ClearResponseCookies();
        Response.Clear();

        // Set the revalidation
        SetRevalidation();

        // Send the file
        if (file != null)
        {
            if ((file.FileName != null) || (file.FileName != ""))
            {
                if (file.FileExtension.Contains("pdf"))
                {
if (AnalyticsHelper.AnalyticsEnabled(CMSContext.CurrentSiteName))
        {     
            HitLogProvider.LogHit("PDFDownloadTracker", CMSContext.CurrentSiteName, null, file.FileName, 0);
        }

               }
            }

But for some reason instead of recording 1 hit , web analytics is recording random hits.

Could you please check if there is amistake in the above code or am I adding at the wrong place?

Thanks
Gitesh Shah


Kentico Support	kentico_jurajo - 4/23/2013 7:24:18 PM RE:Tracking - Media library PDF Download Hi, I do not see any problem in the code - I would run it in the debug mode and try accessing the file or files multiple times to see if the code is hit correctly every time. Best regards, Juraj Ondrus