Designer Usage Data

kat

Hi there

I wanted to enable Designer usage tracking at my company. I had a look at this: https://help.alteryx.com/server/11.0/admin/index.htm#Configuration/SaveDesignerUsageData.htm%3FTocPath%3DConfigure%2520Server%7C_____6

From this it’s not clear to me where I can find the usage statistics?

Also, on the non-admin install there is no RuntimeSettings file in the specified location. Can I create it there and will it still work?

Thanks

Katrin

MarqueeCrew

Hi @kat ,

Is a picture worth a thousand words?  At least this is where you must configure EACH designer to address your local gallery.  From your designer you won't have access to the MongoDB.  You can either run a job on the server itself, if you have permission to do that, or you can create a job to read the mongodb.  Alteryx downloads provides a workflow to create either a tableau or pdf report of usage (must configure job to ask for usage data as it is not the default).  I modify the delivered workflow to create a yxdb of the detailed usage information from Mongo (before parsing it) and output that data.  I now have control over all of the detail.

If you don't have it, try creating it as:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<SystemSettings>
	<Designer>
		<PhoneHomeUrl>http://localhost/gallery/</PhoneHomeUrl&gt;
	</Designer>
</SystemSettings>

You'll need to substitute your URL for http://localhost/gallery/

Cheers,

Mark