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Tracking the number of viewers of PDF

Forum|Forum|4 years ago
February 10, 2021
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Sydney

Hello Community,
I have a PDF that I would like to track the number of clicks or views on it. Is there a way to do this? Perhaps, make a link for the PDF within Qualtrics?

Best answer by rondev

If you only want to track the number of counts the pdf was clicked/opened then you can simply create a ED in survey flow and set its value to 1 and then custom EOS element with redirect to pdf url.
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If you are putting the pdf link in some qualtrics question, then you need to add click event on anchor track and increment the ED value using JS

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Forum|Forum|4 years ago
February 15, 2021

If you only want to track the number of counts the pdf was clicked/opened then you can simply create a ED in survey flow and set its value to 1 and then custom EOS element with redirect to pdf url.
OR
If you are putting the pdf link in some qualtrics question, then you need to add click event on anchor track and increment the ED value using JS

Ron Dev (DM for any request. XM Technology Consultant, surveysolution.in)

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Sydney
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Forum|Forum|4 years ago
February 16, 2021

Thank you. That was very helpful! I like that first method.

Any suggestions on how to count the number of people, rather than the number of clicks?

At first, I thought about comparing IP addresses, counting one IP address only once. However, IP addresses are blocked by my Brand Admin.

I know that I can send a unique/personal link to each and every person but that would only allow that individual to click and view once. After that, the link becomes invalid. I would like each individual to go to the link as many times as they would like and only be counted as one response.

Thank you so much in advance.