| If only I had a dollar for every time someone had asked me for some granular information about reads and writes on their sharepoint site - usually they want to know who read a particular document and when. It looks like with SharePoint 2010 we'll finally have this capability. The notes below are from a session about "SharePoint Analytics and End User Feedback to optimize the content and organization of your SharePoint sites." Here are some points about the technical functionality that enables getting the user tracking data that content owners really want:
• There are a lot of out of the box reports to see where traffic is going on your web site, how many hits on specific pages, etc.
• There is an Alerts feature to notify you when content is stale (or getting less traffic). You set up a workflow through the browser workflow creation interface. You can specify metrics to watch such as number of views, number of failed search queries, etc. You can also have a metric compared to a previous day. You view and set up this information in the Site Settings.
• Some interesting alerts are for when there are new values different from the expected. Particularly useful for search and watching for new search terms.
• Of course, with any preconfigured options, you’ll have new different questions. You can directly query the WSS Logging Database that comes with SharePoint! They will publish the schema.
• The logging DB is enabled by default on SharePoint installations. |