OpenWGA 7.9 - OpenWGA Concepts and Features

Every single user profile has metadata fields to store statistic information about the usage of the profile.

Which fields are actually used depends on the personalisation statistics mode which is chosen for the individual application.  The following three modes are available:

• No statistics: Completely disables collecting of statistics.
• Collect session statistics (default): Collects statistics at the beginning of every session to track the number of sessions and the date of the last session.
• Collection session and single request statistics: Collections statistics on every request to track the number of requests per session.

Choosing a statistics mode is mostly dependent on what data you will actually use from the user profile, having in mind that more exhaustive statistics collecting may also degrade the application performance. Mode "Collect session statistics" is the default mode as it collects valuable data to do user profile maintenance but does only effect the first request of every session.

The statistics mode can be explictly set as additional publishing option in OpenWGA admin client:

• Open the configuration of your application under menu "Web Applications" and click the "Edit" button
• In section "Publishing settings" click "Show/Hide more options" and find option "Personalisation statistics". Choose it to add the option to the configuration
• Choose the desired statistics mode and click "Save"

The statistics-related metadata fields can be retrieved from within WebTML requests as metadata type "profile". See this reference for a lists those fields and in which modes they actually contain data.