25.3. Exploiting Usage-Reporting Features

One of the cool features that SharePoint Designer exposes is the ability to consume usage data from the Web server for a Web site and then generate report views indicating usage information, such as page hits, visiting users, and the Web browsers and operating systems being used to access the Web site. However, because this feature relies on the Web server usage data, you have to ensure that this data is generated and available for use at the Web server. Fortunately, FPSE and SharePoint allow for accumulation of usage data at the Web server.

25.3.1. Enabling usage reporting for Web sites

To enable the generation of usage data on an FPSE site, you have to perform some administrative work on the Web server. On Windows 2003 servers, FPSE 2002 allows for the creation of usage data by using the owsadm command-line tool. For example, to create usage data for a Web site that has the IIS identifier 87257621, you can use the following command:C:Program FilesCommon FilesMicrosoft SharedWeb server extensions50in>owsadm -o usage -p /lm/w3svc/87257621.

NOTE

For more information on how to generate usage data on FPSE sites, visit this Web site: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/889363.

Once the usage data has been created, you can open the site in SharePoint Designer to view the usage reports that are generated based on the usage data created on a Web server. Figure 25.4 shows a sample of the usage data for an FPSE site. You might need to refresh the Web site or recalculate hyperlinks to have SharePoint Designer generate the usage for you once the usage data has been created for the Web site. The usage data is stored in the _vti_pvt folder of the FPSE site in the form of XML documents.

NOTE

For more on Recalculate Hyperlinks, see Chapter 23.

For SharePoint sites, you need to configure usage processing on the SharePoint server by using the SharePoint Central Administration Web site.

NOTE

For more information on how to enable usage processing on SharePoint sites, visit this Web site: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/825541.

25.3.2. Working with usage data

Once the usage processing is configured and the usage data is available for a Web site, it's very simple in SharePoint Designer to generate reports for usage analysis. Choose Site Reports Usage reports view to examine the usage data for your site. Usage data can be exposed to provide the following information:

  • Usage summary, which can be generated on a weekly, monthly, or daily basis

  • Page hits, which can be determined on a daily, weekly, or monthly basis

  • List of users visiting the Web site as well as the browsers and operating systems being used to visit the site

  • Referring URLs to the Web site pages inside the Web site

NOTE

For SharePoint sites, the first 20 visiting users are displayed separately, along with their usernames, in the reports. The rest of the users are combined in the All Others row.

Figure 25.4. The usage data for an FPSE site

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