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Starting and Configuring the Data Collection
Service 
Start and configure the data collection service to enable the portal to gather data about portal activity.
You have permissions to the Service Configuration page and to the com.sap.portal.activityreport.core service. By default, members of the built-in system administrator role have the required permission.
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1. From the top-level navigation, choose System Administration ® System Configuration.
2. In the detailed navigation, choose Service Configuration. The Service Configuration Editor is displayed.
3. In the Portal Catalog, navigate to Applications ® com.sap.portal.activityreport.core ® Services ® ActivityReport.
4. Right-click ActivityReport and choose Configure. The properties for the portal activity report application are listed.
5. Start the data collection service by setting the following property to true (the property is not case sensitive):
Setting |
Description |
Activate portal activity report |
Starts and stops the data collection service. Enter true. The default is false. |
6. Configure the data collection service by setting the following additional properties (properties are not case sensitive):
Setting |
Description |
First day of the week |
Sets the first day of the week for weekly reports. The default is Monday. |
Gather iView statistics |
Enables and disables the gathering of activity information about iViews. Enter true (default) or false. |
Gather page statistics |
Enables and disables the gathering of activity information about pages. Enter true (default) or false. |
Gather statistics about remote users of local
content |
Enables and disables the gathering of activity data for remote users in a global portal. Enter true (default) or false. |
Objects to discard from reports |
Disables gathering of statistics for pages and iViews. For example, you may not want statistics about navigation iViews. Specify pages and iViews by PCD address. Separate PCD addresses with a comma. For example, you can exclude the page title bar by specifying the following: pcd:portal_content/com.sap.pct/every_user/ You can also prevent data collection for a page/iView by setting the Monitor Hits property for that page/iView to false. For more information about this property, see Configuring Pages/iViews for Data Collection. |
Pages for which to gather user data |
Enables the gathering of the logon IDs of the users who visit specific pages.
User data for each page takes up a lot of space in the database, so you should collect this data for only the pages for which you really need this information. Specify pages by PCD address. Separate PCD addresses with a comma. For example, you can collect information about the users who view the portal information page by specifying the following: pcd:portal_content/com.sap.pct/ You can also enable the collecting of user data for a page by setting the Monitor Users property for the page to true. For more information about this property, see Configuring Pages/iViews for Data Collection. |
Save interval (minutes) |
Specifies, in minutes, how often to save activity data to the database. A shorter period uses less memory but requires more-frequent resource-intensive save operations. The default is 60 minutes. |
7. Select Save to save your settings.
To restore the default settings, select Restore Default.

You must restart the service for the changes to take effect. Perform the following steps to restart the service.
8. In the Portal Catalog, navigate to Application ® com.sap.portal.activityreport.core.
9. Right-click com.sap.portal.activityreport.core and Administrate. The Application Details Editor is displayed.
10. Click Restart to restart the portal activity report application.