Hi Jocelyn Flint,
You are correct. To get unique views, you will need to use Data Feeds and modify the queries a bit. For example, upon loading the fContentBlog table, getting unique pairings of the user_key and blog_key columns would result in unique rows for that user, for that blog.
We currently have the Unique View Counts report that allows you to pull back unique views on a given content type. However, it may be worthwhile including this information in some of our other activity reports (e.g., Blog Article Activity report) as well so you can get this on a blog article-by-article basis, for example.
We are looking into adding unique views to relevant Basic Report templates in the Insights Program. Thank you for bringing this up,
Brandon
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Hi Jocelyn Flint,
You are correct. To get unique views, you will need to use Data Feeds and modify the queries a bit. For example, upon loading the fContentBlog table, getting unique pairings of the user_key and blog_key columns would result in unique rows for that user, for that blog.
We currently have the Unique View Counts report that allows you to pull back unique views on a given content type. However, it may be worthwhile including this information in some of our other activity reports (e.g., Blog Article Activity report) as well so you can get this on a blog article-by-article basis, for example.
We are looking into adding unique views to relevant Basic Report templates in the Insights Program. Thank you for bringing this up,
Brandon
Thanks, Brandon. This is helpful!
Hi Jocelyn Flint,
We've updated the Blog Article Activity report to include unique views as well as a channel filter. We will be updating the other activity reports similarly.
I hope this helps,
Brandon
Brandon Ralph This pretty much makes my day, Brandon! Thanks so much. I am actually about to send our DWP's new strategic goals and KPIs off to our Exec team, so I'm excited to work this approach to metrics in before I click "send". You have great timing.
Thanks again!
Brandon Ralph our team was wondering if there's a way to remove the box with the views, previews, comments, etc. that appears on the right side of a blog article? Thanks!
Hi Brittany Bendeck,
Yes, this can be accomplished with CSS. If you right-click and inspect the page while hovering over the box, you can see the elements of the page and their associated classes/ids. These can be used to target your CSS.
The entire box has a class of "ig-magicbox" so you could use CSS like the following to hide it everywhere in the Digital Workplace:
.ig-magicbox{display: none}If you wanted to hide it on all Blog Channels only, CSS like the following could be used:
.ig-channeltype-blogchannel .ig-magicbox{display: none}Similarly, to hide it on one channel specifically (here, "Test Blog"), the CSS may look like the following:
.ig-channel-test_blog .ig-magicbox{display: none}The following articles may be helpful:
If I can offer any further clarification, please let me know,
Brandon
Brandon Ralph thank you! Ginger Avenali, here's our answer.