Collect data for reports

8 min

Collected Commerce Connect data can be accessed under Reports in the Optimizely Commerce Connect user interface. The data is made available for export to be consumed by other applications. Data can be collected for purchase orders and subscriptions.

The collect data feature provides raw data for created orders and includes:

Ability to specify time periods for which you want the data (for example, all orders created in the past 90 days) in the web.config.

Ability to collect data when an order is placed or an existing order is modified.

Scheduled jobs that collect the raw data and exports it to a compressed zip file, which contains a csv file with the data.

The Reports menu, which displays links for downloading exported zip files.

Permissions that control access to the Reports menu.

Set time range for the report

You determine the time range for the reports in appsettings.json or inside the ConfigureServices method of Startup.cs. The default value is 90 days. You can set a single value or multiple values as in the example below.

//appsettings.json
    {
    "Commerce":{
        "ReportingTimeRangeOptions":{
            "TimeRangesInDays": [30, 60, 90, 180]
            }
        }
    }

    //Startup.cs
    public void ConfigureServices(IServiceCollection services)
    {
        services.Configure<ReportingTimeRangeOptions>(o =>
        {
            o.TimeRangesInDays = new HashSet<int>() { 30, 60, 90, 180 };
        });
    }

Values are numbers of days prior to the date that you run the Collect Report Data Scheduled job. Start and end dates are included in the order dates. For each value, the job creates one corresponding CSV file.

The above example means that the Collect Report Data scheduled job generates 4 CSV files: one for all orders created within the last 30 days, another for orders created within the last 60 days, and so on.

Each CSV file is compressed into a .zip file.

Collect report data

Use a scheduled job

You can use scheduled jobs in the Optimizely Content Management System (CMS) Admin view to collect data for the reports. For example, to collect order data, run the scheduled job Collect Order Data for Reports collects order data in the background.

Like other scheduled jobs, you can run this manually or at predetermined time intervals.

The scheduled job Collect Subscription Data for Reports collects data for subscriptions, see Collect subscription data.

Use order events

Order data can also be collected whenever an order is placed, or an existing order is modified by adding, updating, or removing line items. By default, this option is disabled. To collect order data when these order events occur, set the ReportingOptions EnableEventDrivenOrderReporting to true in appsettings.json or inside ConfigureServices method of Startup.cs.

//appsettings.json
    {
    "Commerce":{
        "ReportingOptions":{
            "EnableEventDrivenOrderReporting": true
            }
        }
    }



    //Startup.cs 
    public void ConfigureServices(IServiceCollection services) { 
      services.Configure<ReportingOptions>(o => { 
         o.EnableEventDrivenOrderReporting = true; 
      }); 
    }

Permissions for reports

Only users with following roles can access the Reports menu in the Customized Commerce user interface.

CommerceAdmins

ReportManagers

Access collected data

After collecting the report data, a link to the exported .zip files appears under Reports. Click the link to download the data.

Data format

Collected report data is presented in a comma-separated value (CSV) format. Open full-size image in new window

Order data reports

This version provides the following information for each order created during the specified time range in LineItem level.

LineItemID

LineItemCode

DisplayName

PlacedPrice

Quantity

ExtendedPrice

EntryDiscountAmount: The line item's discount amount

SalesTax

Currency

OrderGroupId

OrderNumber

CustomerID

CustomerName

MarketId

OrderCreated: The order creation date

AdditionalValues - see Add properties to your Order data.

Add properties to order data

If default values do not meet your requirements, you can add properties by overriding the GetAdditionalData() method of ReportingAdditionalDataHandler.

public override IEnumerable<string> GetAdditionalData(ILineItem lineItem, IPurchaseOrder order)
        {
           return new string[] { order.MarketId.Value, order.OrderStatus.ToString(), lineItem.InventoryTrackingStatus.ToString() };
        }

The extension point in DefaultReportingService.ExportOrderDataAsCsv() calls to GetAdditionalData() to assign value for AdditionalValues, then exports AdditionalValues like other default values to the csv file.