Pulse: Updates and Direction

October 1, 2008 on 10:58 am | In Design and Development, Module Releases/New Features |

Unfortunately I haven’t had the time to dedicate to Pulse that I wanted, thus the prolonged beta release. However, I’m now back in the groove with it and am releasing an update with a few tweaks and bug fixes:

| Revision 5.010 2008/09/10
|    - fix live stats date range search defaulting to week
|    - whois opens in new window
|    - changed wording to “Excluded” for IPs and Referers
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| Revision 5.009 2008/08/01
|    - add new module UI
|    - fix issue with zero orders
|    - fix blocked ip

I’ve gone back and forth on some pending issues, e.g. the referer field–should it only show the initial referer or should it show the referer for each subsequent screen? The initial referral is obviously the most important, as you want to know where your customers are coming from. However seeing how they navigate through your site is also informative so for now, I’ve left the referal trail active and may make it optional in a later update. Note that the referer reports will always be based only on the initial clickthrough to your site.

My primary focus will now be on purging. Although not the issue it was with the old DBASE backend, it’s understandable that some users will want to cleanout data. The challenge will be doing that without losing too much valuable information.

Other items on the to do list:

• hits/visits
• category reports
• individual product reports
• date range queries on all the existing reports that can allow for it, e.g. the basic products reports (viewed, added, removed, ordered)  should allow for date range restrictions
• a current baskets report

If there are other features, you’d like to see, please let us know.

Bret.