Hi Maryam, As of the DSpace 7.6.1 release this should be working out-of-the-box. In fact, in DSpace 7.6 we had complaints it was recording **too many** downloads, as thumbnail downloads were being recorded. See https://github.com/DSpace/DSpace/issues/8938 That issue was fixed in 7.6.1 however.
As noted in that issue ticket 8938, I believe downloads in Google Analytics are recorded as "item" events with the action "download" and category "bitstream". If you are not seeing those events in your GA, then I'd recommend looking at your logs (dspace.log) to see if errors are being thrown every 5 minutes (as the default "google.analytics.cron" will send these download stats to Google Analytics every 5 minutes). If you are still not seeing these statistics, then I'd recommend creating a bug ticket with more details about your setup and what you *are* seeing. It sounds like GA is working fine from the User Interface (as that is where the stats for regular item views come from). But, if downloads are not showing up, that'd imply that "google.analytics.cron" either isn't working or isn't enabled: https://wiki.lyrasis.org/display/DSDOC7x/DSpace+Google+Analytics+Statistics#DSpaceGoogleAnalyticsStatistics-ConfiguringGoogleAnalytics Tim On Wednesday, April 24, 2024 at 3:57:04 PM UTC-5 [email protected] wrote: > Hi all, > > > We have been trying to implement Google Analytics (file downloads) on the > new DSpace 7.6 but have yet to be successful. We are receiving statistics > on page views but not file downloads. > > I would like to know that if you can get it working. > > > > Sincerely yours, > > Maryam Fayazi > -- All messages to this mailing list should adhere to the Code of Conduct: https://www.lyrasis.org/about/Pages/Code-of-Conduct.aspx --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "DSpace Community" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/dspace-community/e76086fe-49ee-499f-9efd-8aaf257ad6fen%40googlegroups.com.
