I have a couple of feature requests and bug reports. If these have been
fixed for the new version please ignore them as I haven't had a chance to
try it out yet.

I plan to implement these myself eventually but as i won't be immediately I
thought I'd throw them out there in case anyone feels inspired or has any
further ideas :)

Feature Requests
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 - Add expiry date column to generic admin index for news items (and events
too..?)

 - As part of the above item, allow news items (or any generic admin
interface item) to be sorted by any of the columns asc/desc (by clicking on
the column name)

 - Alternatively, add an option to filter out expired items

 - Have a new reporting section in 'searches' that lists external search
engine search terms. In other words, extract the search parameter from http
referers (for example so you can see google search strings people use to
find your site)

 - Allow further drilling down of stats. A few examples:
   - When viewing locales, if a country is selected it would display all the
sessions (or whatever) of people from that country
   - When clicking on an IP address, shows all sessions from that IP address
   - etc. etc.

 - Replacing the "Filter own site" in Referer Summary to be a new section
within reporting that allows a powerful filtering system. Something along
the lines of... a drop down box of the different search columns (userid,
referer, ip address, etc...), then an input box to type a corresponding
string. Then, on all reporting pages have an option to either show all stats
or to filter it completely. This would then allow you to have many different
criteria to filter own.

This is useful to remove stats created during development (ok i always
forget to clear stats log when moving to production), plus some sites will
have access points via several domains (e.g. a certain domain redirects to
the primary domain)... this will pollute the referer stats

The only concern with many filter options is the slowdown it would cause on
search every single record if it should be filtered. But I'd rather wait a
bit longer for accurate stats than to get bloated stats quickly :)


Bugs
----
 - Referer reporting... sometimes in the referer log there is a blank entry
with X number of hits. Looking in the table, some referers are reported as
an empty string, some as "Unknown".... The code looks like it detects for
this but maybe it needs to Trim() the string. It should really just save it
as an empty if unknown (not as the string "Unknown") then not display that
at all in the referer log

 - When looking at the locale summary page, the table column is labelled
"Sessions" but the mouseover in the locator map is labelled as "Hits",
although it corresponds to the same value (not sure which one is correct)


Cheers

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Quentin Zervaas
Web Developer

MITOUSA.
Web + Interface Architects

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F:// (08) 8361 9977
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