Thanks Tim :) Follow-up question: So I've been asked to find how many
times a file has been downloaded and its associated item page visited each
year since the inception of the repository. Since the existing the stats
package just states it per month, I went into the Solr Statistics and ran
Hi Carolyn,
The *intention* of the File Visits is to track file downloads. However, I
will mention that the built-in DSpace Statistics engine is not always the
most accurate tool. It sometimes will overcount bot activity and it may
exclude hits from localhost. I'd *love* for it to be much
A note to add to the above:
The 'File Visits' section from what we've seen so far doesn't appear to
accurately reflect the number of actual downloads of a file. From the
back-end of Solr, we tried running a query with parameters as follows:
"params":{
"q":"*:*",
"indent":"true",
Hello,
Just wondering--how do we find the number of downloads of a pdf from a
given item in DSpace? If you click on 'Statistics' in the toolbar while
accessing an item page, is the 'File Visits' section equivalent to
'Downloads'?
Thanks,
Carolyn.
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