Is there a way to set a tag to the number of sessions looking at a specific perspective page?

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Is there a way to set a tag to the number of sessions looking at a specific perspective page?

I have a mega menu, and I kind of want to show who is looking at which page or at least how many sessions are looking at a page.

I might even want to historize the number of sessions looking at a page, or how often a certain machine computer is looking at a page.

I am open to a better thread title recommendation.

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Is there a way? Sure, not built in, and would IMO add a lot of code that doesn’t really accomplish anything.

Also, it’s entirely possible for a single machine to have multiple sessions open and looking at the same page.

All of your navigation would have to go through a message handler, probably in a session scope. Inside of that handler you would have to increment/decrement a tag value appropriately. There are many pitfalls that would very possibly cause this count to get off.

Personally I just don’t see the value for the amount of effort that would be invloved.

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Thanks

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Kinda somewhat related but i use the audit log to look at what buttons are pressed - which could be menu buttons.
Could give you at least a simple metric of how many times user(s) navigate to specific pages.

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When I use the audit log, I get some weird issues.
I am in 8.1.19.
It might have been just coincidence with a different error.
I am not sure.
I have been avoiding the audit log since it happened to me twice.

My gateway disconnected enough twice to drop my DHRIO devices, and I had to spend time resetting those. Maybe I did something wrong in the searching.

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Hmmm, I would guess this is unrelated since the audit log mostly just deals with database writes. I don't have any insights for you there...
I have had pretty good success using auditing on my Edge devices feeding to my main GW and auditing on my main GW as well - all feeding to the same SQL server. I even configured audit recording on every button click for my Edge devices to be able to recall exactly what an operator did if errors ever arise.

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Do you use SQL stuff in it like

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When I need to, yes. I typically also filter by device and date range (since I have a LOT of records) along with a string query. In perspective I also use the table filter do the simple string filtering for me as my front end filtering.