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Webtrends Log Analyzer 8.x
Webtrends Reporting Center 6.x
Last modified: 1/1/2011
Introduction:
Starting with the release of Webtrends Reporting Center 6.0 (and Webtrends Log Analyzer 8.0) the Top Referring URLs report was changed to Top Referring Page. Along with this name change, a setting was changed in the configuration file that would cause reports not to display any additional URL data past the referring URL page stem. This applies only to new installations and does not apply to installations upgraded from version 5.0x. Basically, query information was removed for report purposes to limit uniqueness of items in the report data table. Historically (Webtrends Reporting Center 5.0e and earlier), 35 characters of the query string were included for entries in the Top Referring URLs report. Users can now configure the number of characters of the query string by using the following INI setting, which can be configured globally (wtm_wtx.ini) or per-profile.
Process:
To configure the number of query string characters that will display in the Top Referring Page report globally (for all profiles), follow the steps below:
1. Access the following file in your Webtrends installation, and open it within a text editor:
\Webtrends\wtm_wtx\wtm_wtx.ini
2. Locate or add the following field, which is found in (or added to) the [profile] section of the file: referrerquerytruncatelength It may appear, by default, as seen below, where "n" is the number of characters in the query string that will be displayed:
referrerquerytruncatelength = n
3. Change "n" to the number of characters in the query string that should be displayed in the Top Referring Pages report.
4. Save and close the file.
5. For the change to take effect, the Webtrends Reporting Center services must be stopped and restarted.
To configure the number of query string characters that will display in the Top Referring Page report for individual profiles, follow these steps:
1. Edit the X.wlp file, located in the following directory:
\Webtrends\wtm_wtx\datfiles\profiles\X.wlp
...where X in X.wlp is equal to the profile name or number found on the main Webtrends Reporting Center AdminConsole.
2. Locate or add the following field, which is found in (or added to) the [profile] section of the file: referrerquerytruncatelength It may appear, by default, as seen below, where "n" is the number of characters in the query string that will be displayed:
referrerquerytruncatelength = n
3. Change "n" to the number of characters in the query string that should be displayed in the Top Referring Pages report.
4. Save and close the file.
5. For the change to take effect, the Webtrends Reporting Center services must be stopped and restarted.
Further information:
In order not to change existing customer's reports, Webtrends defaults this setting to 35 characters if no setting is found in the ini (which would be the case for existing/upgrade customers). New installations will include an ini setting with a value of 0 in wtm_wtx.ini. |
