Overview

The system configuration page has a few settings controlling general 4Analytics behavior.

Update credentials

Updating 4Analytics with Joomla one-click updates require an access key to our servers. You can get yours from your weeblr.com dashboard (requires logging-in).

Copy and paste your update key in this field. The update key is the same for all your weeblr.com extensions, it will never change.

Colors

You can choose from either a dark or light general theme. In addition, pick one of the proposed accent colors. Accent color is used on most buttons and headers.

Messages and alerts

Remind me later reset

Messages and alerts displayed on the 4Analytics dashboard can be dismissed permanently, but you can also ask 4Analytics to Remind you later of them.

How much later 4Analytics reminds you depends on the actual message type. If you want to bring back all messages 4Analytics is supposed to remind you later, click the Reset "Remind me later" reminders button.

Auto-clear notifications

By default, all popup notifications in 4Analytics are only dismissed when you click on their Close icon, or use the ESC key on your keyboard to do the same. This is required to make them accessible to most users.

If you do not need this, you can enable Auto-clear notifications, which will cause all Information level notifications to clear themselves after a few seconds.

Note that:

• Errors and warning will still require to be manually cleared
• Notifications that auto-clear display a progress bar and a Pause button. Pressing it will stop the automatic clearing process.

Help system

We have added Help buttons and small textual hints throughout 4Analytics. They'll help you use 4Analytics but after a while you may not need them as you get accustomed to using 4Analytics. Instead of keeping them displayed all the time, use this toggle to only show a single help icon.

Clicking that help icon for a specific configuration item, for instance, will bring back the full help text and help button.

Cron key

In addition or as an alternative to background processing triggered by frontend visits, you can configure a cron job on your server to regularly trigger 4Analytics actions such as sending email summary reports.

Adding a cron job is particularly useful if you do not have a lot of visits to your site - visits are normally what triggers 4Analytics background processing.

A cron job will 'wake up' 4Analytics on a regular basis, making sure all its normal activities are performed.

Setting up a cron job is done on your server. It's not done in 4Analytics or in Joomla itself. Usually, you will use your hosting company control panel to do this. The specifics instructions are dependent on your hosting company control panel, make sure to contact their support if you have trouble doing this.

We advise setting up your cron job each 5 minutes. This will ensure backround processing runs on time.

Address to use in the cron job

Your cron job will need to load this page:

<your-site-address>/?_wblapi=/foranalytics/v1/cron/http&k=<your_cron_key>

• <your-site-address> is the full home site address of your site, including https://
• <your_cron_key> is the exact value displayed in the Cron key field.

Here is an example:

https://www.example.net/?_wblapi=/foranalytics/v1/cron/http&k=40f7edb3b5

Do not type anything: use the Copy button at the end of the Cron key field to copy the correct full address into your clipboard wiith one click.

Exact syntax

The exact syntax to use on your server depends on how it was set up, and we can only give you examples here. Make sure to talk to your hosting company for the final and exact syntax to use.

Typical full command to run in your cron job could be:

wget -O /dev/null "https://www.example.net/?_wblapi=/foranalytics/v1/cron/http?k=40f7edb3b5" > /dev/null 2>&1

or

curl -s "https://www.example.net/?_wblapi=/foranalytics/v1/cron/http?k=40f7edb3b5"

Make sure to replace 40f7edb3b5 with the actual secret cron key shown on the 4Analytics configuration page. Better: just use the Copy button.

Logging

Logging is the action of recording information about 4Analytics operation to disk file, where they can be used later for analysis in case of issues appearing.

This shouldbe left to Normal or Disabled unless you have specific reason to use Detailed. The latter will record much higher volumes of information and is therefore only needed when trying to identify the source of a specific problem.

Probably a good idea to consult with us before doing that. Also, make sure to disable Detailed logging when you do not need it anymore.

When detailed logging is enabled, a notification on the dashboard will remind you so.

Data deletion

You would normally expect an extension such as 4Analytics to remove all data it has created if you choose to uninstall it. However, this is usually not the best idea for larger extensions as this data might be valuable and at the same time require a lot of time to be accumulated.

As it's quite possible to uninstall by mistake, 4Analytics will not delete its data by default if uninstalled. That way, you can just re-install back the extension, and you'll have all your data back instantly.

If you do wish to permanently and entirely remove 4Analytics from your system, before uninstalling it toggle this setting to do so.

After confirmation, the option will be set to All data will be removed when uninstalling.

Nothing will happen immediately when you change this setting. It only has effect if you uninstall 4Analytics.