Search Log Report
A Search Log Report shows all searches performed on the system within a specified period of time. This report can be used to view popular searches on your site, and optimise weightings of assets to ensure better search results. To generate this report, the Cron Manager needs to be set up within your system.
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Details Screen
The Details screen allows you to configure the settings of the Search Log Report. For more information about the Status, Future Status and Thumbnail section of the Details screen, see the Details Screen chapter in the Asset Screens manual.
Details
This section allows you to configure the name of the report and view information for the last generated report. The Details section of the Details screen is shown in the figure below:
The Details section of the Details screen
The following fields are available:
- Report Name: by default, the name that was entered into the Report Name field when the report was created will appear in this field. You can change the name of the report by clicking into this field and entering the new Report Name.
- Regenerate Report: by default, if the report has never been generated, no information will appear in this section. Once the report has been generated, the date, time and which user generated the report will appear in this section. Whenever the report is regenerated, this information will be updated.
Report Settings
This section allows you to select when to generate the report and how many search terms to show in the report. The Report Settings section of the Details screen is shown in the figure below.
The Report Settings section
The following fields are available:
- Rollover Period: this field allows you to select how often the report should be regenerated. By default this is set to Weekly. You can also select Monthly or Daily.
- Display Rows: enter the number of search terms to display in the report. By default, this is set to 25.
Report Screen
By default, if the report has not been generated, the Report screen will not show any information. Once the report has been generated, it will appear on this screen. Select a report to view from the list at the top of the screen and click Select Report.
The report displays popular and failed search terms broken down by each search asset in the system. At the top of the screen, the overall results for all search assets are shown. An example of this is shown in the figure below.
A Search Report on the Report screen
For each term that is listed, the following information is shown:
- Total Searches: this is the total number of times a user performed a search using this term.
- Average Results: this is the average number of assets that were returned when the user performed the search.
- Lowest: this is the lowest number of assets that were returned when the user performed the search.
- Highest: this is the highest number of assets that were returned when the user performed the search.