Introduction This blog post will walk through a simple approach to create your own click-through analytics. Extend your reporting options to include statistics which will raise visibility into how your app consumers navigate your applications, enabling you to use data to validate assumptions on app usage and design. I have attached the MSAPP files and the datasource sample(excel spreadsheet) so you can play around with the app to understand it better and then implement the same approach in your apps. Workflow overview – To explore the app, follow these steps – Step 1: Install the app from the MSAPP file that I have attached below. Step 2: Save the excel spreadsheet “AnalyticsDemo.xlsx” in your OneDrive and add it as a data source in the app using the OneDrive connector. Step 3: After saving and publishing the app, open the app and click on some icons and navigate around the app. Check whether the data gets collected in the Excel Spreadsheet. (Note: Sometimes it may take a few seconds before the data gets updated so you might have to close and open the spreadsheet once) Step 4: Use the OneDrive excel spreadsheet as a data source in a PowerBI report and create different graphs/statistics based on what you would like to measure. Below is an example to get you started – Capturing Interaction points- The main functions that I have used to capture the user interaction are the Patch and Collect functions. To start with, you would probably like to collect some basic user information before you capture any further interaction points of that user. To do this, I used the below formula in the OnStart property of the app-Collect(AnalyticsDemo,{UserName:Office365Users.MyProfile().DisplayName,UserEmail:Office365Users.MyProfile().Mail,LoginDate:Today(),LoginTime:Text( Now(), "\[$-en-US\]hh:mm:ss" ),Latitude:Location.Latitude,Longitude:Location.Longitude})This will create a new record in the Excel data source and because we are using the OnStart property, the basic user information will get collected only once, i.e., when the app is opened by the user. For capturing user details, I have used the Office365users connector. For any further interaction points / clicks , I used the Patch function to update data in the record that was created above. Below is an example of the Patch function used in the OnVisible property of the Products screen –``` Patch(AnalyticsDemo,Last(AnalyticsDemo),{ProductScreen:“Y”})
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