Thanks very much Steven - great link. Yes, we are looking at Cairngorm - however I am dealing with a one year old legacy Flex app - yes there is such a thing - so radical changes are not always easy.
Jonathan On Wed, 30 Mar 2005 16:44:45 +0100, Steven Webster <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > 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). 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