What you are actually asking about then is how to integrate with an analytics too; most analytics tools actually work by using Javascript or by exposing an XML over HTTP(s) or SOAP API.
Rather than try and embed a hidden image (the common trick for analytics) you should look to see what integration technologies your particular analytics vendor supports (WebSideStory for instance, uses Cookies and JavaScript). There's an article on integrating with Omniture, which also uses a JavaScript and Cookie tracking mechanism, here: http://www.macromedia.com/devnet/flex/articles/analytic_app_print.html That's probably the starting point you are looking for. We have just (about) completed a major Flex app that has analytics requirements, and a piece of advice is that you need to have your customer (marketing dept) think very carefully about what information they want OUT of the analytics engine.....with an RIA we break free of the concept of page-impressions, and analytics allows us to gain much more powerful metrics, by tracking significant business events that convey much more meaning about how users are using and not using your application, than page impressions can signify (ie if someone refreshes a page several times on online banking application, is it because they made seven bill payments, or is it because they failed seven times to pay one bill ?). If you just want to churn lots of guff out into the logs however, and impress a marketing department that will never actually use the info, just ask for it, then you should look to extending the Cairngorm Controller class to log events + corresponding data for every user-gesture. Good luck, Steven -- Steven Webster Technical Director iteration::two This e-mail and any associated attachments transmitted with it may contain confidential information and must not be copied, or disclosed, or used by anyone other than the intended recipient(s). If you are not the intended recipient(s) please destroy this e-mail, and any copies of it, immediately. Please also note that while software systems have been used to try to ensure that this e-mail has been swept for viruses, iteration::two do not accept responsibility for any damage or loss caused in respect of any viruses transmitted by the e-mail. Please ensure your own checks are carried out before any attachments are opened. > -----Original Message----- > From: Jonathan Bezuidenhout [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: 30 March 2005 16:27 > To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com > Subject: Re: [flexcoders] Flex with HitBox (HBX) > > > It is software to track people's beahviour and analyzes it > > http://www.websidestory.com/services-solutions/hbx/overview.html > > http://www.macromedia.com/macromedia/proom/pr/2001/websidestory.html > > e.g. if you go to a page, and stay there for a couple of > mins, or click on certain things it can track it - so if you > have a link or something that is very popular and another > thing that is not, they can tell if it is popular or not etc. > > > On Wed, 30 Mar 2005 16:29:46 +0200, Robert Stuttaford > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > You're going to have to tell us what a hit box is, first :) > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: jonbez [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Sent: 30 March 2005 04:24 PM > > To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com > > Subject: [flexcoders] Flex with HitBox (HBX) > > > > > > > > Hi there, > > > > I have just received a request from our marketing dept to > have HitBox > > included into our Flex app. I know very little (OK - > nothing) about > > it - so I wonder if anyone has any pearls of wisdom to share. > > > > I believe it is possible to connect it to ActionScript > somehow, and > > use it that way. Does anyone know if there is a better way > to maybe > > integrate that with URLs/RemoteObjects or whatever. > > > > Thanks > > > > Jonathan > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Yahoo! Groups Links > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Yahoo! Groups Sponsor > > > > ADVERTISEMENT > > > > > > ________________________________ > > Yahoo! Groups Links > > > > > > To visit your group on the web, go to: > > http://groups.yahoo.com/group/flexcoders/ > > > > To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to the Yahoo! Terms of Service. > > > > Yahoo! Groups Links > > > > > > > -- > No virus found in this incoming message. > Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. > Version: 7.0.308 / Virus Database: 266.8.5 - Release Date: 29/03/2005 > > -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.0.308 / Virus Database: 266.8.5 - Release Date: 29/03/2005 Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/flexcoders/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
