Tracking Users

[jjkw]

We are interested in tracking which users are accessing which web pages. We are using RD 7.1.2 and webtrends for analytics.

How does reddot handle user authentication and can we pass that information (hopefully the user ID) into web trends for tracking ?

[Richard Hauer]

RedDot isn't that kind of CMS. You can use it to make asp or .net or php or jsp sites or just Html if you want, but its only an editorial environment. It doesnt participate at runtime so it doesnt know about users and analytics.

You can use Delivery Server to do that (and more). Or any number of runtime frameworks like Java, .Net and php to achieve your goals transparently to RedDot. 

That's its gift.

Regards,
Richard.

Sent from my mobile. Sorry if it's brief.

jjkw <joseph....@gmail.com> wrote:

We are interested in tracking which users are accessing which web pages. We are using RD 7.1.2 and webtrends for analytics.

How does reddot handle user authentication and can we pass that information (hopefully the user ID) into web trends for tracking ?

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[Jian Huang]

Hi JJKW,

You should be able to do that without any problem.

However, I am not sure you want to do that in RedDot or in your live
site, so I am going to cover both. Also, assuming you are using the
JavaScript version of webtrends.

In RedDot:
There is an info placeholder that returns current user name, then just
pass that info to a webtrends, like:

var CurrentUserName = "<%inf_current_user_name%>";
// webtrend code to include CurrentUserName as one of the trackable
variable

In Live site:
Assuming there is already some user login system you have on the live
site, and must be maintaining the sessions either server side or via
cookie, so just need a couple lines of code to spit back who is
currently logged in:

var CurrentUserName = "<%session('username')%>"; // if it is server
side
var CurrentUserName = cookie("username"); // if it is client side
cookie
// webtrend code to include CurrentUserName as one of the trackable
variable

Best,

-Jian