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I’m planning out some development for a client.  They need to be able to track views to gauge popularity, and we also need to set up some relationships between channels.

I was looking through the documentation here and saw the note on view_count_x tags not being supported.  I wanted to clarify something real quick.

Does that mean you can’t use them together AT ALL, or does it mean you can’t pass view_count_x data from related entries when referencing the entry currently in view?

Any insight would be appreciated.

Hi, dehuszar, it’s only when using them inside of related entries. If you use a single entry page and one of the view_counts, it’ll work just fine. (Example: track_views=“one”)

Does that help?

Hi Sue, I have exactly the same question, allow me to ask further:
What do you mean with “when using them inside of related entries”?

I have the same situation as dehuszar and it is important for me to keep track of the views.

Hi lehrerfreund, I think Sue means that view count doesn’t work when used like this:

{exp:channel:entries}
{related_entries id="field_name"}
{view_count_one}
{/related_entries}
{/exp:channel:entries}

In this case {view_count_one} won’t work. The reason is that the related entries data is cached (saved to be displayed later) when you create the entry those will be related to. Dynamic entries data can’t be displayed in this context.

Hope I made it clear enough.

Hi lehrerfreund,

Guisi is correct. Does that satisfactorily answer your question?

@dehuszar, are you okay with this now?

Cheers

Greg

@guisi, thanks very much for your help.

I think I’ve understood how it works, giusi. Thank you for the clear explanation!!

Thanks also for confirming, Greg.

(my case closed)

Thanks

dehuszar, let us know if all is ok with you?

Also spotted a release of an add-on the other day called Hits which has some relevance here

(uih, hits looks nice, though it will take some while to use it: “Hits requires Expression Engine 2.3+” 😊

lehrerfreund,

😊 nice spot. If you have time it would be nice to let the author know

already did this 😊

I am actually gonna close this one out as the original thread was a while back. Feel free everyone to start a new thread if you have any more questions