Real Time Media Chart

Real Time Media Chart is an optional module that works together with Real Time Media Report to provide real time performance visualization of articles that are important to you. Performance of individual articles, article groups, or entire article categories are displayed and updated every 10 minutes.

When you drag the Real Time Media Report module onto the palette or click the edit icon () in the top right corner of Real Time Media Report, the Edit dialog displays

Enter the following information in the dialog.

Report Type

The Report Type is set to Real Time Media and cannot be changed.

Report Title

When you launch the Edit dialog by clicking or dragging the Real Time Media Chart module onto the palette, the Report Title initially displays Real Time Media, but you can change this value. When you launch the Edit dialog by clicking the edit icon from an existing Real Time Media Chart, the Report Title initially displays the selected category and article name, but you can change this value.

Note: If you change the filter to view different article performance, the Report Title still reflects the original category and article name used when Real Time Media Chart was initially displayed.

Metric

Choose which of the four different metrics including Page Views, Article Initiated, Article Completed, and Average Page Views you want Real Time Media Chart to display.

Filter On

Filter the articles you want to see by article name, article category, or a combination of both. You can enter up to 10 different article or category combinations. If you filter by article or category, each filter row is connected with an OR. If you filter by both article and category, then the filter text strings are connected with an AND.

Use the list to select which filtering option you want. Only the filtering option text box for the chosen option is activated. If you select the Article Category and Article filter option, then both text boxes are active. If you select the Article Category and Article filter option on an existing Real Time Media Chart, you will see the filter text strings used to display that chart.

Wildcards are assumed before and after your filter text strings. For example, entering bus as an article text string will show the bar charts for all articles containing bus, Airbus and busy in their article names. If you leave a text box blank, Real Time Media Chart will consider it to contain a wildcard and displays the bar charts for all available matches.

Afer you configure the Real Time Media Chart, click Apply at the bottom of the Edit dialog to display the updated chart.

Figure 1. Filtered Real Time Media Chart

Figure 1 is an example Real Time Media Chart and contains:

Report Header

The Report Header above the large bar chart includes two lines with the Report Title on the first line. The Report Title consists of the article category plus the article name that you selected. If wanted, you can change this value. The second line of the Report Header includes the metric and the time window. The metric initially displayed is the one defined as Metric 1 on the Real Time Media Report Edit dialog, but you can select a different metric. The time window always says "Yesterday and Today" because the past 48 hours are always displayed.

The Report Header over the small bar chart (to the right of the large bar chart) always says "Last 2 Hours in 10 Minute Intervals".

Bar Charts

Real Time Media Chart displays two bar charts. The larger bar chart, on the left, shows the article performance based on the metric you selected for each hour. The dark green bars show today's hourly performance (from 12:00am to the Last Processed time). The light green bars show yesterday's hourly performance and help provide an understanding of relative performance over time. Placing your mouse over any of the bars displays this information:

Line 1 - the metric value for that hour like Page Views, Article Initiated, Article Completed or Average Page Views
Line 2 - the metric value divided by six. This results in a 10 minute average value that is comparable with the smaller 10 minute bar chart
Line 3 - the time associated with the hourly bar

The smaller bar chart, on the right, shows article performance based on the metric you selected over the most recent two hours in ten minute increments. Placing your mouse over any of the bars displays this information:

Line 1 - the metric value for that 10 minute increment
Line 2 - the time associated with that 10 minute increment

Edit

When you place your mouse on the chart, the edit icon () is visible in the top right corner. Clicking the edit icon takes you to the Edit dialog in the Chart Setup / Edit section.

Remove

When you place your mouse on the report, the remove icon () is visible in the top right corner. Clicking the remove icon closes the Real Time Media Chart module.

For more detailed information about Real Time Media Chart, see the Monitor - Real Time Media User Guide located at https://support.coremetrics.com.