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[Red Flare]

Is there any way to find out what people are searching for inside the MM5 store? I.e what are they typing in the search field.

thanks

[jason - jmh web services]

Is there any way to find out what people are searching for inside the MM5 store? I.e what are they typing in the search field.

thanks

Power Search from Weiland (http://www.jmhonline.net/miva-modules/power+search+v5) has this feature. You might want to ask lance about his super search module (http://www.jmhonline.net/miva-modules/super+search) in regards to adding the feature. His module uses custom fields that are much better than miva's.

[Bruce - PhosphorMedia]

if you turn on Merchant Access Logging under >Logging, you'll get reports like:


"ark" f85a909fcfbb7360cf7270941d8a1476 [28/Jun/2006:00:51:22 -0400] - SFNT "ark" 200 - "-" "Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.0; .NET CLR 1.1.4322)"
"ark" f85a909fcfbb7360cf7270941d8a1476 [28/Jun/2006:00:51:34 -0400] - SRCH "Foobar" 200 - "http://dev.ark.com/mm5/merchant.mvc" "Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.0; .NET CLR 1.1.4322)"
"ark" f85a909fcfbb7360cf7270941d8a1476 [28/Jun/2006:00:51:37 -0400] - SRCH "Foobar" 200 - "http://dev.ark.com/mm5/merchant.mvc?" "Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.0; .NET CLR 1.1.4322)"


Where you can see the user searching for "Foobar"...no modules needed...


of course, I'm sure the hard working developers that provide products such as Power Search and Super Search have added value to their products...but hey, fair and balanced right...

[Red Flare]

if you turn on Merchant Access Logging under >Logging, you'll get reports like:


"ark" f85a909fcfbb7360cf7270941d8a1476 [28/Jun/2006:00:51:22 -0400] - SFNT "ark" 200 - "-" "Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.0; .NET CLR 1.1.4322)"
"ark" f85a909fcfbb7360cf7270941d8a1476 [28/Jun/2006:00:51:34 -0400] - SRCH "Foobar" 200 - "http://dev.ark.com/mm5/merchant.mvc" "Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.0; .NET CLR 1.1.4322)"
"ark" f85a909fcfbb7360cf7270941d8a1476 [28/Jun/2006:00:51:37 -0400] - SRCH "Foobar" 200 - "http://dev.ark.com/mm5/merchant.mvc?" "Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.0; .NET CLR 1.1.4322)"


Where you can see the user searching for "Foobar"...no modules needed...


of course, I'm sure the hard working developers that provide products such as Power Search and Super Search have added value to their products...but hey, fair and balanced right...

So I go to Logging configuration ->MIVA merchant access log . There is file called malf.log. Is this the right file, how would I open it?
thanks

[wcw]

Power Search from Weiland (http://www.jmhonline.net/miva-modules/power+search+v5) has this feature. You might want to ask lance about his super search module (http://www.jmhonline.net/miva-modules/super+search) in regards to adding the feature. His module uses custom fields that are much better than miva's.
Just for clarification, Power Search builds a mirror from the miva built in custom fields. But the search is using the mirror which is much quicker than a separate custom fields database. Also, if you want to ensure compatibility across other 3rd party modules, you should stick with the built in custom product fields module that comes with Merchant. If the only 3rd party module you want to use is for search, this latter issue won't matter.

[jason - jmh web services]

if you turn on Merchant Access Logging under >Logging, you'll get reports like:


"ark" f85a909fcfbb7360cf7270941d8a1476 [28/Jun/2006:00:51:22 -0400] - SFNT "ark" 200 - "-" "Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.0; .NET CLR 1.1.4322)"
"ark" f85a909fcfbb7360cf7270941d8a1476 [28/Jun/2006:00:51:34 -0400] - SRCH "Foobar" 200 - "http://dev.ark.com/mm5/merchant.mvc" "Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.0; .NET CLR 1.1.4322)"
"ark" f85a909fcfbb7360cf7270941d8a1476 [28/Jun/2006:00:51:37 -0400] - SRCH "Foobar" 200 - "http://dev.ark.com/mm5/merchant.mvc?" "Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.0; .NET CLR 1.1.4322)"


Where you can see the user searching for "Foobar"...no modules needed...


of course, I'm sure the hard working developers that provide products such as Power Search and Super Search have added value to their products...but hey, fair and balanced right...

Thanks, Bruce, for pointing that. Definitely no modules needed just for this.

[Bruce - PhosphorMedia]

Yes, that is the correct file. You can open it in a text editor or Excel (its tab delimited, so you have to Open Excel, change the File Type at the bottom of the Open File dialog and then select Tab as the delimiter character when the following dialog box appears.