Report Magic 2.21 review
DownloadReport Magic makes usable statistics from your web sitelog file analysis.
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Report Magic makes usable statistics from your web sitelog file analysis.
By harnessing the power of Analog and building readable, compelling reports, Report Magic can answer these questions and help you and the rest of your organization understand how your web site is used.
Features:
Illustrative line
Bar and pie charts allow you to analyze trends and quickly interpret information
Descriptions on each report help you understand the data they represent
Easy-to-read tables put exact information at your fingertips
Powerful and customizable
You can configure colors and fonts so that it integrates with the theme of your web site
A dozen languages to choose from
Portable
It will run on any platform that Perl will run on
There are also pre-compiled binary versions for Windows and Macintosh platforms
Easy to setup and automate for hosting companies with command-line control
What's New:
Links in Request and Referrer Reports were not linking the first and last characters. (Noted by William Woods, Eric S. Corbin, Sean Powell, and Bobby Hitt )
Mac Edition did not have same install/test procedure. (Noted by Ken Whitcombe)
Changed settings recognition code to work around problems in the Windows Edition. (Noted by Gordon Harford)
Added *.shtm and *.shtml to default linked file names in Request Report.
Fixed Install.PL in the Source Edition to include udpated language file structure when copying.
CGI Mode. You can now run Report Magic as a CGI application (form interface). See CGI Mode documentation for details.
In support for CGI mode, two new settings have been added to the [graphs] section, Path_To and URL_To. These identify the location that graph files should be written to (rather than the same folder where report files are stored) and where they should be read from in the URLs.
Unrecognized settings will now produce a warning message. (Suggested by Karim Nassar)
Added several new command-line options: --version to display the version, --help to display a quick help screen
New --settings command-line option will write out a settings file to the screen, rather than running reports.
A new setting File_Extension in the [reports] section can be used to specify an alternate extension for file names, instead of the default '.html'. (Suggested by Pat Erler and Steven Smith) Note that the default Frame_File_Out setting also uses this extension.
You can now specify more than one settings file on the command-line. You can also have multiple Include settings in the [statistics] section of your settings files.
On graph labels, where previously just a row number would be written, Report Magic now writes the row number and the first part of the data name.
Changed embedded navigation menus for TOP and BOTTOM alignment to be more useful.
English language files are now identical to other files. Non-localization settings are stored separately in lang/.root.
Changed behavior Report Magic no longer looks for a 'default' language in the root directory of the installation. You can only change the language by settings the Language setting.
Failure Report now defaults to truncating data text at 60 characters. This should help make NIMDA worm requests less likely to make the table too wide. (Suggested by Karim Nassar)
Report Magic will now read from STDIN and write to STDOUT (the screen) if no File_In and File_Out settings are given.
If no Base_URL setting is given in the [website] section, but Analog has been configure with HOSTURL then this value is used.
The Request Report will automatically link asp, jsp, php, jhtml, cgi and pl files in addition to htm and html files and directories.
General Summary was not inserting thousands separators.
Error and warning messages thrown before settings were done being read would not print.
-statistics-Include was not working from the command line.
When writing German reports using Analog in English mode, the weekend and weekday summaries were not written properly.
Norwegian language setting was being improperly converted to '0'.
Hungarian language when Analog is run with Hungarian would not write summaries. (Discovered by Sz?kely D?nes)
Pie charts were not producing an accurate plot when there was a '[not listed]' row that covered a significant amount of the data. (Discovered by Bobby Hitt)
Daily Summary were doubling values in Summary rows at the bottom. (Discovered by John Webb)
Report Magic will now accurately represent output from Analog running with Analog Crawler.
Time Summary reports' summary rows will no longer display if they are set to a blank value. (Patch provided by Andrew Hill)
Quick Summary was skipping reports when Analog provided a different column for BT than the Active_Column for the report.
Changed phrase of 'value' Header on Quick Summary to list column type.
OS X installation instruction have been updated with a fink install script. (Provided by Scott Hannahs
Fixed typos in documentation noticed by Micahel Harbour.
Fixed warnings for General Summary columns without formats and for formatting numbers without decimal places.
When writing to STDOUT no longer writes the Quick Summary.
Logos are no longer written at the bottom of the file when writing the report to STDOUT.
Improved URL detection to link inclusion code in Report.pm to not link things that might be cross-scripting attacks.
Improved guessing of paths when trailing '/' or '' (or whatever) is missing in File_Out setting
New Languages
Finnish (Provided by Provided by Juho Eini?)
Norwegian (Provided by Eivind Tagseth)
Japanese (Provided by Tohru Kawamura)
Traditional Chinese (Prvided by Jason C.H. Yang).
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