Any way to record the number of clicks for hyperlinks?

Question

User1952956959 posted

Good afternoon,

I've got a web project with certain links to routers, APs, servers, ect...

The company I work for wants to keep track of how often the equipment is accessed. So far, it's been a painstaking process of digging through old tickets and finding what equipment may have been accessed and when.

I figured, since I have links to the equipment in my application already, could there be some way for me to record the number of times a user clicks those links, store the numbers in SQL and then generate a report every month.

Any useful methods or tutorials to get me on the right track?

Thanks in advance,

-Cody

Answer 1

User-851967432 posted

I don't think counting clicks would be a very accurate approach to reporting.

Isn't there a timestamp or a record of when the equipment was accessed?

Answer 2

User1952956959 posted

There is.

We have the time stamp at the beginning of each ticket. The tickets are recorded into their own database with a seperate application. We can also look at certain DAT tables with the EQ and see login events but these tables are cleared at times when we reset the EQ.

Unfortunantly, the application the company chose for ticketing was not tailored toward ticketing so I have no way of simply making use of it and generating reports for EQ from it.It does use it's own database but it's rather complex.

The application I've designed for EQ access is one with it's own SQL Ce database.

I had it in my mind to record the click and then have the user input a ticket # for referance.