How to track more with PKB2 Appexchange package?Francois LopitauxProduct Manager
@flopitaux
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Summary
• This customization allow you to store one record per article view on
PKB2. You can then create trending report about most popular
article, unique visitor report, average article view per visit and
more.
WARNING! This customization is going to create one record per
article view on your public web site. These record are going to use
data storage space. You may need to clean them based on your web
site traffic.
• Pre-requirement:
• Public Knowledge for Web (PKB2) deployed,
https://appexchange.salesforce.com/listingDetail?listingId=
a0N300000059QxXEAU
Step 1: Define different type of Feedback
• On Article Feedback Object, create a new pick list field
named: “Type” with 2 values, Feedback and View. Set
Feedback as default.
Step 2: Update PKB Controller
• In PKB_Controller Apex page, add a new method:
public void UpdateExternallyViewed() {
if (viewingArticle) {
String fs = (feedbackSourceOptions.contains(feedbackSource) ? feedbackSource :
null);
PKB_Article_Feedback_Deflection__c afd = new PKB_Article_Feedback_Deflection__c(
Article_ID__c = theKad.id,
Article_Number__c = theKad.articleNumber,
Article_Title__c = theKad.title,
Session_ID__c = sessionId,
Type__c = 'View',
Feedback_Source__c = fs,
Keyword_Searched__c = urlSearchQuery,
Article_URL__c = 'https://login.salesforce.com/'+ theKad.id+ '?popup=true'
);
insert afd;
}
}
Step 3: Update VF Template to call the method.
• Edit VF Template page, by default, the page is called
“Pkb_Template”
• Add the action attribute in the apex:page:
<apex:page cache="false"
standardStylesheets="false"
showHeader="false"
sidebar="false"
standardController="KnowledgeArticle"
extensions="pkb_Controller"
action="{!UpdateExternallyViewed}">
Step 4: Create Report and Dashboard using Article Feedback Object
• Create new Report using Article Feedback Object.
• Main useful field on Article Feedback Object:• Session ID: Automatic Cookie generated at each new web
session. It allow to track session and how many visit you get as
how many article view per visit.
• Keyword: search keyword used to find this article
• Source: page from which article has been viewed.
• Article Number, Article Title, Article ID
