Table of Contents

  • Introduction
  • Administrator
  • User
    · Introduction
    · Using LogView
    · Statistics Page
    · Report Page
    · Advanced Page
    · Putting reports on other pages
  • Appendix
  • Advanced Page
    In this page, the user can control all of LogView's capabilities for viewing statistics.

    Selecting group
    As was the case on the Statistics page, the statistics group, if more than one is available, can be selected in a list box.

    Selecting report
    The user can select the kind of report from all the kinds that are available for the selected statistics group in the first list box on the row.

    The list box labeled as is used to specify the granularity of the diagram or table. If days is selected here, a resulting bar chart will have one bar for each day for which data is available, and a table will accordingly have one row for each day. If instead month is selected, the bar chart will have one bar for each month, with a height that is the the sum of the all the values of the days of this month.

    The list box labeled by selects what should be printed for example as labels on the bars of a bar chart. To get a chart where each day has it's own bar and the label Year-Week-Day (e g 1998-25-Tue) the user can select the report to be shown "as day, per week". A report that is "as day, per month", has the label Year-Month-Day (e g 1998-Jun-16) on its bars instead.

    Trying to set the as value larger than the by value gives the following error message:

    LogView Error: unit cannot be greater than per

    Setting both values equal has an interesting effect when using the Sum feature, as we will see in the next section.

    Selecting presentation
    In the first list box, the user can choose between Append or Sum. Append is the default, and gives the results we saw in the Report section. Using the Sum feature changes this behavior somewhat - instead of summing the data inside each day, month or year the data for several such units can be summed, to answer questions like "how many hits were processed in total between the 1998-06-02 and 1998-07-11?" However, to use this feature we have to use the trick to set the as and by time periods the same.

    There is also a possibility to set the maximum number of rows to be shown. The term rows seem to imply the use of a table, but the limitation works on all kinds of diagrams as well, and then limits the number of bars, pie slices or other corresponding items.

    Selecting from and to values
    The user can specify the exact time period for which statistics should be shown by selecting the years, months and days for the beginning and end of the period.

    Selecting display
    When the user has specified all of the above, he can start the display process by pressing one of the display buttons in the row at the bottom of the page. These can be divided into categories, of which only the members of the last one needs explaining.

    Tables:

    • HTML table
    • ASCII table

    Charts:

    • Line chart
    • Bar chart
    • Sum bar chart
    • 2D pie chart
    • 3D pie chart

    Miscellaneous:

    • Map

      A world map, nice for displaying statistics over Most active countries. Not available in any other case.

    • Export

      Exports the table in a tab/newline separated format, suitable for MS Excel.

    • Tag

      Displays the LogView RXML tag with all the parameters (see appendix B) that generates the created report. Great for cut-and-paste!