I don't know about recording only the first click off the page.
However, it would be fairly easy (it seems to me) to build a "link tracker".
Just have a CF page that takes a URL as a param. It inserts info about the
link and whatever else (session userID, time, etc) into the DB. Then it
<cflocation>s to wherever the passed link points to.
Then you just change whatever links you want to track to a form like:
<a href="linktracker.cfm?page=www.targeturl.com/page.html">
(You'll probably want to escape some of this with URLEncodedFormat).
--Ben Doom
Programmer & General Lackey
Moonbow Software
: -----Original Message-----
: From: robert_myers [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
: Sent: Thursday, September 19, 2002 11:42 AM
: To: CF-Talk
: Subject: Tracking first 'click' off of a home page
:
:
: I run a 1400 user Intranet for my company, and have a home page
: that has about
: 3 dozen links to various resources (including other web servers --
: both internal and external).
:
: Could some one give be a head start on how I might record the
: user's *first*
: click off this home page? No need to track them after that.
:
: I'd like to store it in a SQL 7.0 database to run queries
: against, and at a
: minimum I'd like the CFToken, CFID, IP Address, and fully qualified URL
: that the click refers to.
:
: I know very little about session/client management, but any articles or
: publications pointed out would help me get over this limitation.
:
: This is a 4.5 environment running on Windows NT. (ya-ya, I know - quit
: snickering).
:
: Some direction (and pointing out the pitfalls) would be much appreciated.
:
: ..and as always, thanks in advance!
:
: ..and as always, thanks in advance!
:
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