Saturday, 18 April 2015

Popularity trends in SharePoint 2013


In SharePoint 2013 we can easily identify the usage of trends and find out at what times activity is higher or low. We can check Popularity Trends reports for a "Site","Site Collection", page and Library level.

View Popularity Trends for a Page

  Navigate to Page in Site Content, Go to Ribbon and click on "Popularity Trends".



Save and Open that file, we can see the Daily and Monthly usage of the page.



View Popularity Trends report for a Site Collection level


Navigate to "Site Settings", Click on "Popularity and Search Reports", in the "Site Collection Administration" Section.

On the View Usage Reports page, click "Usage" on "Usage Reports" Section.

Click Open the report in Excel, in the message box.

View Popularity Trends report for a site level


Navigate to "Site Settings", Click on "Popularity Trends", in the "Site Administration" Section.

On the View Usage Reports page, click "Usage" on "Usage Reports" Section.

Click Open the report in Excel, in the message box.

View Popularity Trends report for a Library and List level


Navigate to List or Library , 

List: Click the Items tab in a list,then On the Ribbon click Popularity Trends.
Library: click Files tab in a library,then on the Ribbon click Popularity Trends.

Note: 

1)  If Popularity Trends option missing in Document library ribbon interface , 
Navigate to site settings, click on Site collection features" under Site Collection Administration section. Activate the "Reporting Feature", now we can able to see the Popularity trends option.

2) To updating usage reports,we need to configure Enable Usage data Collection
Navigate to central admin -> go to Monitoring section -> Configure usage and health data collection.

1 comment:

  1. I am getting a 'Sorry something went wrong' error when I try to view the Usage report or the Popularity Trends reports. Could you please guide on fixing this?

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