Best way to log every time page is viewed

You could probably just create a custom object with one custom text field named “Page”. On page load, have it create a new record on that model and populate the custom text field with whatever you want to call the page such as “Contacts Detail Page”. Then have the action sequence isave the record. The record will automatically have a created by assigned to the current user on page load and the create date will be the time the page was loaded.

Hey Sam, here’s something we’ve done for tracking page adoption within Skuid on Salesforce -

1. Create a custom Object (in my example it's Skuid_Tracking__c) w/ a custom picklist field (my example its Page Origin) to track the page origin they are coming from. You could use text if you want, but we went with a picklist since we change page names sometimes. You could use text if you want, but we went with a picklist since we change page names sometimes.
2. In each page you want to track, have a model using that Object with the following attributes. --- query on page load = false --- create row if model has none = true --- condition: OwnerId = Data Source user attribute || User ID --- condition: Page Origin = "Whateverpicklistvalue" --- action when new row created: save the model

It’s nice because you can just copy & paste the model between pages and only have to worry about changing the model name & the Page Origin condition value. Here’s an example of the model we used in one case -

<model id="usage_tracking" query="false" createrowifnonefound="true" datasource="salesforce" processonclient="true" sobject="Skuid_Tracking__c"> <fields> <field id="Name" autonumber="true" accessible="true" createable="false" editable="false" filterable="true" namefield="true" sortable="true" length="80" displaytype="STRING" label="Skuid POC Tracking Name"/> <field id="OwnerId" accessible="true" createable="true" editable="true" filterable="true" groupable="true" namepointing="true" sortable="true" displaytype="REFERENCE" label="Owner ID" rel="Owner" relationshipname="Owner" ref="Group,User" refprefix="00G,005" overridemetadata="false" ogdisplaytype="REFERENCE" datasource="SkuidLocal" defaultvaluetype="fieldvalue" defaultValue="{{$Model.adoption1.condition.0.value}}" mergefield="Id" enclosevalueinquotes="true"/> <field id="Owner.Type" accessible="true" createable="false" editable="false" filterable="true" groupable="true" sortable="true" length="40" displaytype="PICKLIST" label="Type"/> <field id="Page_Origin__c" accessible="true" createable="true" editable="true" filterable="true" groupable="true" required="true" sortable="true" length="255" displaytype="PICKLIST" label="Page Origin"/> <field id="CreatedById" accessible="true" createable="true" editable="false" filterable="true" groupable="true" namepointing="false" sortable="true" displaytype="REFERENCE" label="Created By ID" rel="CreatedBy" relationshipname="CreatedBy" ref="User" refprefix="005"/> <field id="CreatedBy.Name" accessible="true" createable="false" editable="false" filterable="true" groupable="true" namefield="true" sortable="true" length="121" displaytype="STRING" label="Full Name"/> <field id="CreatedDate" accessible="true" createable="true" editable="false" filterable="true" sortable="true" displaytype="DATETIME" label="Created Date"/> </fields> <conditions> <condition type="datasourceuserinfo" value="" field="OwnerId" fieldtargetobjects="Group,User" operator="=" userinfotype="userid" enclosevalueinquotes="true"/> <condition type="fieldvalue" value="Adoption Metrics" enclosevalueinquotes="true" field="Page_Origin__c"/> </conditions> <actions> <action> <actions> <action type="save"> <models> <model>usage_tracking</model> </models> </action> </actions> <events> <event>row.created</event> </events> </action> </actions> </model>

We use Google Analytics.  On each tracked Skuid page we have a snippet with the below code.  We changed our code from an Inline snippet (that runs on page load) to a regular snippet that we call using the Actions after the page renders.  We found the inline snippet slowed the page loads down.

Replace the placeholders with your SF org id (this makes the snippet only run in produciton, and you won’t pick up your sandboxes) and your google tag id: UA-XXXXXX.


var params = arguments[0],
$ = skuid.$;

//SCRIPT ONLY RUNS IN PRODUCTION ORG, NOT SANDBOXES

if (skuid.utils.userInfo.organizationId === ‘YOURSALESFORCEORGID’) {
    var googletagmanager = document.createElement(‘script’);
    googletagmanager.async = true;
    googletagmanager.src = ‘https://www.googletagmanager.com/gtag/js?id=YOURTAGID’;

    var googletagmanager2 = document.createElement(‘script’);
    var scriptText = “window.dataLayer = window.dataLayer || ; function gtag(){dataLayer.push(arguments)}; gtag(‘js’, new Date()); gtag(‘config’, ‘YOURTAGID’);”;
    googletagmanager2.text = scriptText;

    var s =(document.body||document.getElementsByTagName(‘script’)[0]);
    s.appendChild(googletagmanager);
    s.appendChild(googletagmanager2);
}

Awesome. Thanks to both of you for your in-depth replies!