Abstract views, PDF views and Download Stats Made Public 😶

Dilan_Rostam · September 13, 2016, 12:33pm

Thank you Hermann, I removed the old one and cleared all cache, then i created alm based on the instruction. I could access the setting now. but still URL reads …/almplagin/… please see the images,

on the setting page there some requeriments. We do use DOI,but this one ask for PKP key, I create Personal account (BTW, this service will stop in Nov 2016 as they say), when I try to log in, in the URL (http://pkp-alm.lib.sfu.ca/users/auth/persona/callback) I get error message as

http://pkp-alm.lib.sfu.ca/users/auth/persona/callback

500 Internal Server Error
If you are the administrator of this website, then please read this web application's log file and/or the web server's log file to find out what went wrong.

So how do I get this key now.

hermann · September 13, 2016, 1:22pm

Hi Dilan,

That’s OK. As I said, these URL-paths are not necessarily directly connected to file-system paths!

You do not need such a key to display locally collected article metrics (abstract view counts and full-text view counts). See this https://webapp.uibk.ac.at/ojs2/index.php/ciss/article/view/40 for an example how that looks like.

You only need that key if you want e.g. to show “citations” of articles in social medias (twitter, facebook asf). But I think the whole infrastructure behind that is no longer supported/maintained by PKP. So you would have to set up the necessary services on your own servers - I reckon there are instructions available on how to do that.

Greetings
Hermann

Dilan_Rostam · September 13, 2016, 2:06pm

Good, this make life much easier. How do I display the information as the link you have sent me please? Do I have to add the code manually?

hermann · September 13, 2016, 2:40pm

No, no manually added code. Just enable the ALM plugin, leave everything unchanged (empty) in its configuration and you should see those metrics at the end of the abstract view of each article.

Dilan_Rostam · September 13, 2016, 3:25pm

I checked many articles but I do not see anything yet , you can brows and see

http://aro.koyauniversity.org/article/view/ARO.10052

hermann · September 13, 2016, 4:07pm

Hi Dilan,

I see, there are no metrics.
But there is this

View Counter: Abstract | xxx | and PDF | yyy |

which makes me think that you perchance edited your .../templates/article/article.tpl file!?
Mine is unchanged an ends in these four lines:

{call_hook name=“Templates::Article::MoreInfo”}
{include file=“article/comments.tpl”}

{include file=“article/footer.tpl”}

The important bit is {call_hook name="Templates::Article::MoreInfo"} as the ALM-plugin registered this very hook in order to display its metrics near the end of the article view…
If this is missing in your file can you add it?

Greetings
Hermann

Dilan_Rostam · September 13, 2016, 4:45pm

Yes I used the instruction on this post from Jan 2016 to add those lines to the template and right at the end reads below, which I can see the line you are referring to

<div class="separator"></div>
<h6>View Counter: {translate key="article.abstract"} | {$article->getViews()} | and
{if $galleys}
        {foreach from=$galleys item=galley name=galleyList}
                {$galley->getGalleyLabel()} | {$galley->getViews()} |
        {/foreach}
{/if}</h6> 

{call_hook name="Templates::Article::MoreInfo"}

{include file="article/comments.tpl"}

{include file="article/footer.tpl"}

hermann · September 14, 2016, 8:13am

Hi Dilan,

ok, now I am starting to run out of options.
First let’s check the basics:
What is the operating system on your server?
Which web-server software are you using?
Which version of PHP?
What are the access rights of ../plugins/generic/alm/ and its files/sub-folders?
Does your web-server have read access to all files and sub-directories?

Greetings
Hermann

ctgraham · September 14, 2016, 12:47pm

Also, after installing the ALM plugin (or after changing the directory name) are you running the database upgrade process? For generic plugins, this upgrade process updates the versions table in the database. Take a look at the reference to the ALM plugiun there to ensure the record is sane.

Dilan_Rostam · September 17, 2016, 3:16pm

This is what I get from our dedicated server

What is the operating system on your server? We have a dedicated server, running Debian 8.5
Which web-server software are you using? OS is Plesk 12.5
Which version of PHP? PHP version is 5.6.22, I can have this on 7.0.10 as well
What are the access rights of …/plugins/generic/alm/ and its files/sub-folders? it is 0755 (rwx r-x r-x)
Does your web-server have read access to all files and sub-directories? folders are 0775 and files are 0644

I hope this will help

Dilan_Rostam · September 17, 2016, 9:04pm

I see that there is a web interface but I was not sure what I need to do as I need to update the DB only. I do not want to damage our live website. Is there any step by step screenshots somewhere on the web please? Life would be much easier if OJS use some of Drupal 8 experiences in Installation and update as well as hooking plugin.

Web

If you do not have the PHP CLI installed, you can also upgrade by running a
web-based script. To do so:

    - Edit config.inc.php and change "installed = On" to "installed = Off"
    - Open a web browser to your OJS site; you should be redirected to the
      installation and upgrade page
    - Select the "Upgrade" link and follow the on-screen instructions **_(DO THEY MEAN UPGRADING WHOLE WEBSITE OR JUST THE DB?)_**
    - Re-edit config.inc.php and change "installed = Off" back to
       "installed = On"

ctgraham · September 19, 2016, 12:27pm

If you have access to the command line, you can upgrade the database non-intrusively. If you do not have access to the command line, you can run the database upgrade script from the web interface, but this will make your site briefly unavailable.

I strongly recommend copying your live website to a testing instance on a different webserver and performing any upgrades or new plugin installs there before rolling things out to your production website. This will also give you the benefit of seeing firsthand what the upgrade process looks like without affecting the production site.

If you installed the plugin through the web interface, the upgrade script has already run. If the information in the versions database table looks ok, you do not need to re-run the upgrade script. If you manually copy a generic plugin into the filesystem, you will need to run (or re-run) the upgrade script. This will evaluate the whole OJS code for any needed database changes, and will perform them. So, yes, this affects the whole site, but it will only make changes as-needed in the database.

If using the web based script to run the upgrade,

Dilan_Rostam · September 20, 2016, 4:35pm

We have gone through a painful process to get the site to this stage and I do not want to jeopardise the live site.

But I have access to command-line of the server via putty application. If it is less problematic please give me the command line for Debian 8.5 platform and I will do it.

Thanks

ctgraham · September 20, 2016, 6:13pm

The command line is documented in the UPGRADE doc:

github.com

pkp/ojs/blob/ojs-stable-2_4_8/docs/UPGRADE#L202-L211


1. Command-line


If you have the CLI version of PHP installed (e.g., /usr/bin/php), you can
upgrade the database as follows:


    - Edit config.inc.php and change "installed = On" to "installed = Off"
    - Run the following command from the OJS directory (not including the $):
      $ php tools/upgrade.php upgrade
    - Re-edit config.inc.php and change "installed = Off" back to
       "installed = On"

This should be safe to run on a production server, but again, I would recommend creating a development copy if you are able. You can even do this on your production box, if it is the only one you have access to, by copying the database and files, with either a new folder in your current Apache host, or a new Apache virtualhost.

Dilan_Rostam · September 20, 2016, 7:14pm

Thank you, I did that and it is working now

http://aro.koyauniversity.org/article/view/ARO.10113

I forgot to put the installation off first, but I reran it again.

Dilan_Rostam · October 6, 2016, 10:43pm

Is there anyway I could get a SITE WIDE report, where it list at least top 5 articles downloaded, displayed on front page please?

ctgraham · October 12, 2016, 5:33pm

You could add new custom code to query directly against MetricsDAO::getMetrics():

github.com

pkp/ojs/blob/ojs-stable-2_4_8/classes/statistics/MetricsDAO.inc.php#L22-L44


	/**
	 * Retrieve a range of aggregate, filtered, ordered metric values, i.e.
	 * a statistics report.
	 *
	 * @see <http://pkp.sfu.ca/wiki/index.php/OJSdeStatisticsConcept#Input_and_Output_Formats_.28Aggregation.2C_Filters.2C_Metrics_Data.29>
	 * for a full specification of the input and output format of this method.
	 *
	 * @param $metricType string|array metrics selection
	 * @param $columns string|array column (aggregation level) selection
	 * @param $filters array report-level filter selection
	 * @param $orderBy array order criteria
	 * @param $range null|DBResultRange paging specification
	 * @param $nonAdditive boolean False will mix two different metric types,
	 *  results, which is conceptually wrong because different metric types
	 *  counts events differently. Only use this in cases that you know the
	 *  metric types counts events similary, and where the metric numbers
	 *  accuracy is not that crucial.
	 *
	 * @return null|array The selected data as a simple tabular result set or
	 *  null if metrics are not supported by this plug-in, the specified report

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I’ll also shamelessly plug the NISO SUSHI-Lite proposal, which is intended to provide a standard RESTful API for this type of query.

This could be a specialized report delivered in JSON by SUSHI-Lite for display, or perhaps a call to an COUNTER AR1 report, with a bit of extra parsing. There is a plugin for SUSHI-Lite for OJS 2.4.8.

Dilan_Rostam · March 4, 2017, 1:29pm

Would it be better to have these options in the setting, just tick boxes, so users do not need to play around with the codes that much.
I think user friendly Wordpress functions has lots of good lessons, Adding Plugin, Functions, …

reflections · July 17, 2017, 1:13pm

Hi, using latest version of 3.0. Reports used to work well. Now the review reports link works, the article link creates just a handful, the view link produces an error message, and the custom link (which is apparently a new feature) doesn’t work at all. Any suggestions?

bozana · July 17, 2017, 1:29pm

Hi @reflections

You topic seems to be a different one – problems with reports. Thus could you maybe open a new topic and try to explain your problem with more details? Do you have/see any errors in your log file? Are you using 3.0.2 and how did you install it – did the upgrade worked well? When did those reports used to work well and since than they stopped working well? Etc.

Thanks!
Bozana