Are Page Traffic Reports a Possibility?

Anna Zdeblick

Hi Community!

Curious if anyone's had experience with monitoring page traffic (i.e. Users, frequency). We're standing up a new solution and would like to track adoption rates during our rollout period.....

I know the "VIEWS" are visible in the Activity Log of each object, but wonder if there's a way to query or easily summarize that data for success metrics.

Thanks!

Paul Newcome

Nothing built into the core product, but you may be able to grab it from an API.

Andrée Starå

https://community.smartsheet.com/discussion/109299/are-page-traffic-reports-a-possibility

Hi,

I hope you're well and safe!

A premium add-on, Event Reporting, can provide you with much more information.

More info: 

https://help.smartsheet.com/articles/2479296-event-reporting-monitor-how-data-is-used-across-your-organization

Would that work/help?

I hope that helps!

Be safe, and have a fantastic week!

Best,

Andrée Starå | Workflow Consultant / CEO @ WORK BOLD

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Paul Newcome

@Andrée Starå Doesn't that use the API? And I didn't see anything in the documentation about tracking views.

Andrée Starå

https://community.smartsheet.com/discussion/comment/392100#Comment_392100

Yes, but it's not accessible without the add-on. I don't know what information is available, but you might be right that views are not part of it.

@Anna Zdeblick Let me know if you need pricing and details about what's possible.

Paul Newcome

I dug through both the Event Reporting documentation as well as the API documentation and didn't find anything that would allow a user to access views or even the activity log of the sheet to try to strip out the views.

Andrée Starå

https://community.smartsheet.com/discussion/comment/392179#Comment_392179

It might still be possible. I have a faint memory that I've seen it a couple of years ago so It might be worth checking to be sure.

Paul Newcome

@Andrée Starå My problem is that I can read, but I am still learning how to write. So I can read documentation or a set of code and figure out what's going on, but troubleshooting or thinking outside of the box when it comes to APIs is still a little out of my wheelhouse (for now).

Andrée Starå

https://community.smartsheet.com/discussion/comment/392221#Comment_392221

Yes, same here. That's one of my goals! Learn the Smartsheet API (when I have time and am not busy developing client solutions so, around 2030). 😉

Paul Newcome

Yeah. Time is definitely not a friend. I've been slowly learning Python and C#, but the program I am using says my projected completion for the rate I've been able to get in and take the courses is in 8 years and 3 months. 😅

Andrée Starå

https://community.smartsheet.com/discussion/comment/392244#Comment_392244

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Paul Newcome

And apparently I have been learning something along the lines of C++ as I mess around with Arduino boards. Haha. Maybe I should just do one at a time... 🤔