A look on Proposals and Well-known Items in SharePoint Server

We all know that proposals and various popular items are easily exhibited as there is a feature that is known as Usage analytics tracks and analyzes how visitors interact with your website. One can easily use the results, which usage analytics produces to add content to your website.

For instance, lots of people, who viewed this item, also viewed popular items in this category. Being one of the great features, Usage analytics has gained huge popularity in the market as it can add content to your website very easily.

Let’s consider how this usage analytics works:

• Visitors, who do something on your website, for instance, they can view an item or any product. This can generates a usage event.
  
  
• In the event store, the usage event is recorded.
  
  
• However, the usage events are already sent to the Analytics Processing Component, where they are analyzed. The result is also sent to the Search index.
  
  
• Whenever any visitor navigates to a page, which holds a recommendations or popular items web part, a query is automatically issued and sent to the search index.
  
  
• From the search index, the query results are revisited and displayed in the recommendations and well-known items web part on your site.
  
  

Observing the usage event definitions:

• Importantly, open the SharePoint 2013 Management Shell on the server, where SharePoint Server 2013 is installed.
  
  
• You need to type the below mentioned command at the Windows PowerShell.
  
  

  $SSP = Get-SPEnterpriseSearchServiceApplicationProxy

  $SSP.GetAnalyticsEventTypeDefinitions([Guid]::Empty, 3) | ft

• We all know that the default usage event definitions are exhibited and you can also notice that each event has an EventTypeld and an EventName.
  
  
• The default usage events have the below mentioned EventTypeID values:
  
  

About Usage Analytics in a cross-site publishing situation:

One of the most important steps in how usage analytics works is step 2: The usage event is recorded in the Event store. Using the URL of the item, it is easily possible to record each usage. Most importantly, it is useful in a cross-site publishing situation.

With cross-site publishing, one can easily store in an authoring site collection and showed in a publishing site collage. With category pages and catalog item pages, managed navigation can be used very easily so that it can be showed content easily.

When any visitor checks-out any item on the publishing website, the usage event takes place on the catalog item page as the same catalog item page is also utilized for displaying various items. It is also important that the usage event should be recorded with the help of for usage analytics to work in a cross-site publishing situation. To get more information about Sharepoint development or to hire Sharepoint developer for your project, you can visit here.