Dashboard Page - "Popular Categories" Graph

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Dashboard Page - "Popular Categories" Graph

Post by milstudy » Fri Feb 27, 2009 7:04 am

Hi All!

This may be a stupid question, but I'm prepared for that :wink: I've searched help and the forums and haven't been able to find an answer:

The "Popular Categories" graph on the Merchant Dashboard page; I'm assuming the values across the top are hits ("by views"), but over what time period? Minutes, hours, days?

I may be dim and the answer may be self-evident, but I can't see it!

Thanks in advance,

Adrian
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Re: Dashboard Page - "Popular Categories" Graph

Post by Robbie@FireFold » Fri Feb 27, 2009 7:06 am

I've always wondered the same. The numbers always seem very low for anything over a few hours.
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Re: Dashboard Page - "Popular Categories" Graph

Post by milstudy » Sat Mar 14, 2009 4:04 am

'bump'

Does no one have any idea at all about this?

Thanks,
Adrian

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Re: Dashboard Page - "Popular Categories" Graph

Post by jmestep » Sat Mar 14, 2009 6:52 am

In the source code, it gets the count from the page views table grouped by category id and uses the top 5 based on a parameter in the code on the PopularCategories control. Then there is a cache setting in the control based on if the user is in the report admin role it forces a refresh when they first view then it adds a key into the cache for a time at 5 minutes.
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Re: Dashboard Page - "Popular Categories" Graph

Post by milstudy » Sat Mar 14, 2009 8:36 pm

Thanks Judy!

That explains why the figures "jump about" over time.

Regards,
Adrian

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