Wrong numbers in metrics.metric ? [OJS 2.4.8.0]

[ctgraham]

Thanks, @marc

@alirezaaa, the new technical documentation is being built here:
https://docs.pkp.sfu.ca/dev/

But it doesn’t currently cover the statistics/metrics, to my knowledge.

The assoc_type and assoc_id columns are used throughout the product to point dynamically to different “Associated IDs” by an “Associated Type”. For example: articles, issues, galleys, etc.

Some additional description, and where to find the constants in the code, is here:

"Assoc_Type" And Metrics Table OJS

Hi @William_Ortiz, The assoc_type fields take on constants defined in PHP in classes/core/Application.inc.php and lib/pkp/classes/core/PKPApplication.inc.php in lines like this: define('ASSOC_TYPE_ARTICLE', 0x0000101); 0x0000101 is hexadecimal notation, which corresponds to 257 in decimal. Not all ASSOC_TYPE_... constants are used in the metrics table, as you’ve already noticed; these are general purpose constants used in many parts of OJS. Regards, Alec Smecher Public Knowledge Project Te…