Archive for August, 2009
The release note for the Aug 27 maintenance release is a bit different from usual, there is no word on any fixes made to SiteCatalyst. It’s not that they didn’t fix anything in SiteCatalyst, on the contrary actually they fixed at least a few very long lasting issues. This is what I’ve found so far: [...]
The option to customize the menu structure is a feature in SiteCatalyst I really appreciate. It’s literally possible to turn everything upside down if that’s what you want. In our company we have rearranged quite a few things and made some very often used custom reports available in the menu with the right set of [...]
I’ve been mentioning character encoding problems before, but during the last week I discovered even more of these problems, so it’s time for another post on the subject. Under certain circumstances the reports from SiteCatalyst can become really … well lets just say, less useful. It may be difficult to imagine how a few character [...]
In Sitecatalyst there is something called Classifications a.k.a SAINT (SiteCatalyst Attribute Importing and Naming Tool), in short this is a really nice feature that can be used to tie meta-data to existing data in SiteCatalyst, if this sounds strange, think of it as a very effective way of grouping large amounts of data into groups [...]
Many things evolve to the better over time, the way Omniture handles character encoding in SiteCatalyst, is for sure not one of these things. Non US-ASCII characters were often handled poorly a year ago, and they still are, if not even worse. So, what am I talking about here ? Well, lets have a look [...]
