Control Panel Reports tab
Hit statistics
This is similar to the hit statistics available from the Modify Section feature except that it applies to top level sections and not to child sections.
Link trawler
Allows you to identify pages which contain broken links. Click this and then select either the entire site or a specific top level section to display the Link trawler dialog box:-
Confirm the scope of the report and then click Generate Report to display a web-based report of all pages containing broken links (links to Firefly.NET pages and resources only; links to exterbal addresses are not inluded!), an example of which is given below [NB the report can be exported to Excel for easier analysis if necessary]
Each page containing a broken link is shown in the Page column along with details of the broken links.
Structure & permissions report
This allows you to view the structure of site, i.e. it gives a list of every site, section, page and resource and lists permissions, together with details of positions within the overall site structure. It may be exported to excel for easier analysis.
What's new report
Displays a report of recently created or updated pages. The definition of "recently" is set by the user (see below)
Click Generate Report to produce a web-based report such as the one below. Note that hits information is given along with other page data. Note also that this report may be used as a basis for an RSS feed:
What's old report
This at first sight seems similar to the What's new report described above but it has aspects which are potentially of high interest to webmasters who need to know when pages are about to expire or need to be updated.
The dialog box shown above is set to alert the user to pages which haven't been updated in the last year and also to pages which have been set to expire within the next week. It also covers the entire site (Report scope = Entire site) but a top level section could also be selected from the Report scope pull-down menu.
An example (albeit with no pages qualifying!) of the report generated is shown below:
Note that the report can be displayed as an RSS feed, thereby "nagging" the webmaster/administrator/section owner/etc when a page needs to be updated or replaced.
