User activity log

Hi,

 

we would like to analyze the activitiy of our Board Users to understand how many active users we have and which capsules/screesn they are using how frequently.

Is there a way to track and analyze this?

 

Thanks for your help!

 

Mathias

Answers

  • Hi,

    I suggest you to read the following resource: BOARD LOGs in detail 

    In particular, these paragraphs should be the relevant one for your need:

    §1.1 Login / Logout information
    §2.2 Capsule Log

  • Hi,

    thanks for your help.
    We will make use of this.

    Especially 1.1, 2.2 and 3.7 is very helpful, however 1.1 is missing data for a couple of months, we will investigate this with our conultants.

     

    I assume it is not possible to track which screens (if they don't contain procedures or data-enty functions, only reporting/display function) of a capsule were opened/used by a user?

     

    Thanks again.

     

    Mathias

  • I assume it is not possible to track which screens (if they don't contain procedures or data-enty functions, only reporting/display function) of a capsule were opened/used by a user?

    Why do you assume this ?

    In §2.2 i read:

    Filenames: Cpsx_YYYYMM.log

    Updated every: User action on a Capsule screen

    Log Rotation: every month – year and month appended in the file name

    Header: Yes      

    Fields Description:

    ...

    UserName: User execution the action
    ...
    Date: Date (format YYYYMMDD)

    Time: Time ( format hhmmss)

    ...

    CapsulePath: Capsule in use by the user

    ScreenTitle: screen

    ...

    CubeName: Cube subject to the action

    ...

    [N]=Normal / [E]=DataEntry / [S]=Submitted: Normal means the block is displayed in read mode. DataEntry is when the block is open for data entry. Submitted means the server has executed a data entry submission, the blocks entered are logged after the refresh as submitted.

    ...

    So according to this, I would expect to find username, screen name etc... in this log file regardless of whether a screen has data-entry dataviews or procedures or nothing of both.

     

    Regards,

  • If you have a support login id for Board (for logging support tickets) then you can download the log analyzer application:

    Board Log Analyzer

    I haven't use it straight from here in a while, you may need to teak it a little as the log file formats have changed from time to time.

     

    Might save you re-inventing the wheel

     

    Robert