Hi Bill I agree with Bill that it is not a good idea if you have too many foundation classes, considering the maintainability. However just would like to point out, a good implementation would not have that many foundation classes. You typically should have a foundation with header, body, footer with some predefined pagedefinitions for handling differnt layout variants. Your placement will also be impacted based on what kind of data you are thinking to analyze for the page and about accessing that data.
Hope it helps. Thanks, Prasanth -----Original Message----- From: Jian Huang <[email protected]> To: "Prasanth Nittala" <[email protected]> Date: Wed, 19 Oct 2011 16:27:54 -0700 (PDT) Subject: [reddot] Best Place to Put Analytics Code? Hi Bill, Welcome to the group. You are very close with your solutions. You can have the code hardcoded in your foundation content classes, but with this method, if you have n foundation content classes, and you need to change the code, then you have to change it n times. Hence, this is definitely not a best practice and would get you red flag in OpenText's health check audit. Since contact us module is a common module, adding the code there is perfect because you will have a central place to maintain the code. Like you said, not elegant because now you are mixing code of different purposes in a single content class/page. But you did have the right idea, what if you create a con_google_analytics container in all foundation content classes, create a new content class that has the google analytics code, create a page instance from the google analytics content class, use the plugin Retroactive References 2 to retro actively reference con_google_analytics in all foundation page instances to the google analytics page. Plugin here: http://www.solutionexchange.info/Retroactive-References-2.htm If you need more information as a guide on what I am talking about, take a look at how your site header or footer is handled in the project structure. Good luck, -Jian On Oct 19, 6:42 pm, Bill Bernat <[email protected]> wrote: > I need to place analytics code on our site. I can easiliy throw it > into a contact us container that appears on every page, but that's > kind of inelegent. > > Is there a standard/best practice way to do this? I'm fairly new to > RedDot, just inherited a site to administer. > > Thanks, > -billb -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RedDot CMS Users" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/reddot-cms-users?hl=en. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RedDot CMS Users" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/reddot-cms-users?hl=en.
