PLOG2013 - Plone Analytics

Plone Analytics

A set of tools to analyze your Plone site usage

Simone Orsi - simone.orsi@abstract.it

Simone Orsi aka #simahawk

Python Web Developer

@ Abstract

Who Am I

Abstract for PLOG 2013

Customer needs: track users' activity.

● View users' last login time;

● View items published since users' last login;

● View items published since users' registration date;

● View items published between a specific date range;

● more?

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Customer needs: visualization and manipulation.

● View / build graphics on users' stats;

● Export or expose data (CSV, XLS, JSON, etc)

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WHAT DO WE HAVE?

ALMOST NOTHING COMPLETE :)

collective.contentstats by Raphael Ritz

"A configlet for Plone showing some content statistics (type/state)"

Last release: 1.0.1 (2011-05-09)

Features:

● Works on catalog data exclusively - no content is touched;

● Only lists portal types that are used;

● Only lists review states used;

● Works with custom add-ons right away;

● Supports CSV export of summary data;

Limits: no search. Only display info on review state.

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collective.pygal.plonestats by Christian Ledermann

"collective.pygal.plonestats is mainly meant to demonstrate the

ease of use and integration of pygal into plone."

Last release: 0.1 (2012/04/02)

Features:

● Keywords;● Content by Creator;● Content by types;● Review states;● Created items by year;● Created items by month;

Limits: no search. Prove of concept.

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quintagroup.analytics"Plone site's statistics."

Last release: 1.1.1 (2012-05-31)

Features:

● Content Ownership by Type;● Content Ownership by State;● Content Types by State;● Site Portlets;● Legacy Portlets - information about legacy assigned throughout site sections;● Properties stats - information on certain property values for all site objects, such as

titles, descriptions, etc.

Limits: no search. Some not-needed features.

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WHAT DO WE WANT?

Advanced search.

Search by:

● user properties (name, fullname, email, etc);

● date filter on range (compared to last login time, registration date, etc);

● content types;

● review state;

● path;

● more?

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Visualization.

Show:

● table;

● chart;

Some good starting point could be pygals and daviz.

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Export / Expose.To:

● CSV;

● XLS;

● JSON;

● Open data;

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Flexibility.● Add / remove columns to views and exported data;

● Custom visualization manipulators for converting

value / labels to be displayed;

● Custom export manipulators for converting value /

labels to be exported;

● Custom configuration of graphics (ala Daviz).

All of this should be possbile both from FS code and TTW scripting / TALES expressions.

Abstract for PLOG 2013

Sprint.The goal of the sprint is to come up with a draft of a suite of packages

for providing a pluggable set of tools.

1. indentify real must-have features;

2. outline architecture;

3. cherry picking features from existings packages;

4. code!

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QUESTIONS / SUGGESTIONS?

Simone Orsi

simone.orsi@abstract.it

@simahawk

#simahawk

Thanks for your attention.

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