Page views

The Wissensplattform comes with a small metrics site in the admin panel, where the page views by day can be seen. The page views are calculated from the number of initiated sessions from the Django-Session system. Each session is saved in the backend database in a table called Sessions. When importing a new dump, the session data is overwritten. To not loose the session data it has to be exported from the website and imported in the database before creating a dump. To just export the session-data toa json-file the dumpdata django-management command is used:

    python manage.py dumpdata sessions > page_views_04_08_2024.json

On your local development instance remove all session data. At first open the django shell:

   ./run shell

Inside the shell, import the Session-model:

from django.contrib.sessions.models import Session

Remove the session data:

Session.objects.all().remove()

After that, copy the dumped page-views to your local system and move the file to a location where django can access it (e.g. at 01_application/webcentral_app/). After that, include the session data into the database of your local web instance:

python manage.py loaddata page_views_04_08_2024.json

Now the page views from the website should have been imported into the local database and a dump can be created.