To use the Log Analyzer to view the activity on your WDS site, you must turn on logging on the Preferences page.
To do this:
1. Click Site administration
2. Click Preferences
3. Select the preferred logging method:
Activities will now be logged starting from when you enabled the feature. Any activity before you enabled the feature is not logged.
Logging
Logging refers to the collection of a complete record of end-user activites, such as opening tables and charts, changing dimension item selections, creating IVTs from extracts, and so on.
Note: This is a separate function from the logging of publisher and administrator activities. That information can be viewed by clicking Site logs on the Site administration page. Disabling end-user logging here does not affect the logging of publisher/administrator activities.
Note: Another set of log files, for WDS errors only, is also created. Disabling end-user logging here does not disable error logging.
Note: Even if you choose to disable logging, the log folder must exist. Its usual location is as follows: \WDS 8.2\wds82_1\bin\Log.
No logging
Logging will have an effect on performance, even if the effect is slight. For that reason "No logging" is the default setting.
Log to csv file
If selected, log information is kept in a .CSV file called WdsUserLog.csv. The information can be viewed using a spreadsheet program such as Microsoft Excel. The usual location of the file is as follows:
C:\Program Files\Beyond 2020\WDS 8.2\wds82_1\bin\Log\WdsUserLog.csv
The contents of the "Details" column in the log file depends on the type of entry, as follows:
For entry types:
table_VIEW, CHART_FULL_PREVIEW, CHART_FULL, CHART_table_PREVIEW, CHART_table, MAP_VIEW, table_DOWNLOAD_CSV, table_DOWNLOAD_SSV, table_DOWNLOAD_IVT, table_DOWNLOAD_XLS
- No details appear.
For EXTRACT_VIEW
- The path to the extract appears.
For BUILD_table
- The path to the new table appears, and in brackets the SourceId and path of the extract used to build the table.
For VIEW_DOCUMENT
- The path to the document appears.
Note: The default date format used in the log file is mm/dd/yyyy hh:mm:ss (known as "standard format g"). If you want to customize the date format you can add a LoggingDateFormat entry to the Preferences table in the database. The value can be any standard DateTime format.
For more information about date formats, please refer to the following Microsoft Developer Network article:
http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/az4se3k1(vs.71).aspx
Log to database
If selected, log information is collected in the repository database. The name of the database table is "AnalysisData."
To view the log information, click the Log analyzer button on the WDS toolbar. This button is present whenever the signed-in user has Administrator or Publisher privileges. The Log analyzer page appears.- For more information, click Help from inside the Log analyzer page.