Metrics tracking

[bmacman]

I have an intranet site that is used to display reports that have been saved in PDF format. The user enters the site and there is a list of about 100 links to those reports. Is there a way to track how many times a particular report has been viewed. I am not looking for a page counter, but something that can be written to some sort of a log file. Can anyone help me out here?

Thanks
B

 

[twcman]

Hello,
The way I have done this in the past is to send each link to the same page with the reportname as a url variable. On the link page use cfquery to increase a field in the database by one that would correspond to the report they need. After updating the database, then send them to the .pdf report. Just a note: the end user will not see the update page. There is no output to the update page. It updates then forwards to the .pdf file.

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