Google Analytics and TM1 Web

[mcguija]

Hi,

Does anyone use Google Analytics to track activity? I know you have to add the Google code snippet. What page(s) should it be added to?

I am using Tm1 web 10.2.2.

Thanks
Jason

[lotsaram]

might you care to explain exactly what you are trying to do?

[tomok]

You can't do what you want to without hacking the TM1 code behind TM1Web. TM1Web is not a web publishing package. You can't add your own pages to TM1Web. What you do is either utilize the already built navigation page or you create web sheets that TM1Web displays for you. You don't create your own web pages so there is no way to add those Google Analytics widgets to your "page". If you were to delve into the Tomcat pages behind TM1Web you might be able to add them there so that when your web sheets or views are displayed the widget would show up at the bottom. Good luck.

[Alan Kirk]

Does anyone use Google Analytics to track activity? I know you have to add the Google code snippet. What page(s) should it be added to?

I am using Tm1 web 10.2.2.

Tomok speaks the truth, as is usual. But even if you could get Google Analytics to run, you won't be able to use to track people creating custom views, for example.

If your intent is to simply track who is using which reports, who is logging in and when, etc, the usual way is to create a cube which tracks your websheets (including the home page, if you have one specified) and have a DBS formula built into each websheet which "phones home" whenever the sheets are recalculated. This will give you some idea of usage patterns. But again, it doesn't track people creating custom views.

[Elessar]

If you want to tract activity in TM1 Application Web, you can use tm1server.log: export it to your SQL (Oracle, MySQL, etc) and make the report counting processes like "}tp_workflow_enter_node", "..save_node" and so on.

[tomok]

What I didn't mention is that you can bypass TM1Web as your primary web development tool, use whichever one you want like Sharepoint, Wordpress, Drupal, DotNetNuke....., and use the HTML API to embed TM1Web objects into your own pages. This should allow you to use Google Analytics or any other widget you want.

[mcguija]

Thanks All,

I was hoping it wouldn't be so tricky.

I thought that that maybe i could add it to tm1webapp.js or maybe applications.jsp.

I tired the first on and it does track but only if I do a full F5 refresh, navigating to different sheets doesn't refresh the entire frame it seems.


j.

[lotsaram]

If you are interested in tracking web view and websheet activity I know that Pulse has this feature (nb I do have an association with Pulse). If you want to track to this level of granularity then you need something that is aware of the internals of the TM1 model itself e.g. the cube views and application entries.