Archive for the ‘SiteCatalyst’ Category
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 [...]
Not that I keep track, but I’m still pretty sure that among Clickmap and ExcelClient related questions, one of those I hear the most, is where to find / how to install the plugins. And judging from some of the search engine traffic hitting this blog, I’m not alone. It’s not that Omniture is hiding [...]
Recently, I decided to dig into some of the problems that exist with the Omniture Clickmap technology. First thing on my ToDo list was a brush up on the Clickmap documentation, updates could have been made since the last time I read it. Well, there was one big change, the Clickmap userguide has disappeared from [...]
The SiteCatalyst filter function got a much needed overhaul earlier this year. This did really improve the overall usability dramatically. Nevertheless, the filter function still has a few quirks, certain characters simply can’t be filtered. Try filtering the following: | ? = & After hitting the Go button, SiteCatalyst will change your filter into this [...]
If You use the automated tracking mode in the Omniture Actionsource component, you’ll be up and running with Omniture Flash Clickmaps in more or less no time according to the Omniture ActionSource implementation guide. Real world implementations may differ slightly First challenge is that the implementation guide is missing some really really important information, for [...]
I’ve been an Omniture SiteCatalyst user for around a year now, it’s not uncommon for my SiteCatalyst session to timeout once a day, so by now I’ve probably seen this stupid less meaningful SiteCatalyst timeout page at least 300 times. So for the 301st time: Yes Omniture, I am using SiteCatalyst, and no thank you, [...]
One of the long lasting bugs/annoyances in SiteCatalyst is the somewhat crippled CSV format. Therefore hopes were high when reading about the enhancements to the CSV file format in the SiteCatalyst 14.5 release notes. Unfortunately the format hasn’t changed that much, basically it’s just broken in a different way. Lets have a look at a [...]
If you live outside USA, chances are, that you at some point may end up a bit confused about the way time zones are handled in SiteCatalyst. Some examples: If you are an administrator looking around in the Usage & Access logs, you’ll notice that all indication of time is labeled PST (Pacific Standard Time), [...]
Sometime in January, probably as part of a maintenance release, the conversion classification editor in Sitecatalyst 14 got sort of damaged or broken, but only when working with certain report suites. Unfortunately in our case, it’s working with our development report suite, but not with our production report suite. Product classification: And this is how [...]
With the release of SiteCatalyst 14.4, the Notes field was enhanced to provide report-specific information including timestamp and user name, and the ability to edit or delete the note. This enhanced note field is a really nice new feature, I could see myself use this for short explanations of new custom reports or new calculated [...]
