Request re: Printing Topic

[Tami]

Is there any way to show which topic guests are printing - or can this be implemented somehow?

[Louis M.]

On the board index? Seems kind of excessive.

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[atomicknight]

You can't really track printing anyway. You can track whether someone is viewing the printable version, but the actual printing is completely client-side.

[PKIDelirium]

He means in the Online Users detailed displays. If someone is viewing a printable version is says "Printing Topic" but doesn't say what topic.

[Tami]

I don't know that it's excessive; we're a resource site for high school students in new media, so it would be interesting and of use to us to know which topics are getting printed; we know which ones are popular simply by checking views. It's just another way of collecting usage stats for us. If we knew which printed topics were "hot" then we could add more focusing on that area, etc. :)

[Louis M.]

But you don't have to use the print topic feature, you can just print directly from the topic view. Not sure how accurate the stat would be. I am not against the idea, just not for it.

[Tami]

Guest Viewing Topic: Artificial Clouds 2 minutes ago
Guest Printing Topic 2 minutes ago

Okay...whatever print option it is which shows the above result in Online Users (last click), that is what I'm talking about. It would be alot easier than grepping through access logs to see what they're printing. Wouldn't it use the same type of "grab information" parametres that the Viewing Topic stat would use? It was just something I wondered about, and if it's possible without huge amounts of coding etc.,, I thought it would be a nice stat feature to have. :)