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Recommended approach to tracking (certain) media file download requests

Nathaniel Coxall
Nathaniel Coxall
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Hi,

I have the requirement of keeping track of requests to download certain media files. My current approach is to work into the Application_BeginRequest event handler and try to identify when the request is for a media file, instantiate an object to represent the file in question and then ascertain if tracking should be done.

I'm not sure this is a great approach, but I'm at a loss for other options. Can anyone offer any thoughts on how to tackle this?

Also, to store the "tracking" data, I haven't identified how / where I'm going to do this yet. What are the recommended methods for storing business data within EPiServer?

Thanks,

Nat

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Jan 13, 2015 13:22
Johan Petersson
Johan Petersson
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Hi,

Have you considered using e.g. Google Analytics?

You could store custom data in DDS or a custom table with Entity Framework.

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Jan 14, 2015 4:17
Nathaniel Coxall
Nathaniel Coxall
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Thanks for the suggestion Johan. I the end I managed to get the BeginRequest event solution working (to identify the appropriate media items I wanted to track).

I did go down the DDS route for storing the tracking data though.

Thanks again,

Nat

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Jan 15, 2015 17:47
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