Displaying overlay analytics reports

Overview

Use Active Site Analytics to show graphical statistics reports about individual portal resources, such as pages or portlets. These reports are called Active Site Analytics overlay reports.

The statistics graph is shown on the portal page in the format of an overlay over the portal resource to which they apply, such as the portlet. Examples of what statistical graphs can show:

• A simple view count of a portal page, that is how many users visited and viewed the page on a particular day.
• A statistical curve of the usage for a specific portlet over time.

The statistics are generated as follows:

1. The data collected by the portal site analytics are collected and forwarded to the business partners for portal analytics.
2. Your business partner analyses and evaluates the portal data and sends back a report to the portal.
3. The portal then displays the report as the overlay graph.

We can define which users can view the reports by setting the appropriate access rights. The user must at least be in the USER role on the virtual resource OVERLAYREPORTS and at least in the USER role of the resource he wants to view reports for. We can enable overlay statistics only if we already use Active Site Analytics on our portal site.

To set up Active Site Analytics overlay reports...

1. Enable data collection. For example, we can do this by adding an Active Site Analytics aggregator to a portal page:
   1. Access the IBM Digital Analytics (formerly Coremetrics) website or contact your Coremetrics representative.

   2. Retrieve the appropriate aggregator file from Coremetrics.

   3. Upload the aggregator file to the portal theme folder, for example, using WebDAV.
      Add the Active Site Analytics aggregator to a portal page

   As a result of these steps, analytics data is sent from browsers of the portal users to the Coremetrics data collection servers.

   We can log on to Coremetrics and analyze the portal usage.

2. Enable inline display of Coremetrics reports by enabling overlay reports:
   1. Establish trust with Coremetrics servers.
   2. Optional: Set up security for overlay reports.
   3. Configure the Coremetrics user ID.
   4. Configure the theme to integrate the overlay report features into the Actions menu.
   5. Display overlay reports by choosing Show Portlet Reports or Show Page Reports.
   6. Optional: Customize the overlay report by providing additional configuration parameters.

3. Optional: To further customize the tagging of the site, assign site promotions to pages and portlets as required.

Parent Analyzing user behavior by Active Site Analytics

Related tasks:

Add an Active Site Analytics aggregator to a portal page

Related information

IBM WebSphere Portal V 8 Integration with IBM Digital Analytics (Coremetrics)