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Hi,
I’ve got this within the single entry template:

{exp:channel:entries
  channel="items"
  url_title="{segment_4}"
  limit="1"
  track_views="one"
  dynamic="off"
}

and this within the listing template:

{exp:channel:entries
  channel="items"
  category="{embed:category}"
  orderby="{view_count_one}"
  sort="asc"
  dynamic="off"
}

but nothing is happening with the ordering in the listing template.

I’ve tried testing the view tracking by adding {view_count_one} to the single entry template and it returns 0 every time.

Channel entry view tracking is turned on in the CP. Any ideas?

Thanks,
Clive

Try

orderby="view_count_one"

I had it like that originally, but was getting nothing, so put the curly brackets around it. Shouldn’t {view_count_one} return something other than zero if it’s in a template?

With the braces around it, it’s a variable.  That’s the form you should use to display the results. Without the braces and used in the opening of the channel:entries tag pair it’s a parameter, telling EE how to order the results.

Once you have the pieces in place are you hitting a specific entry in your single entry template a bunch of times to increment the variable?

Yes, I was. It didn’t seem to be making any difference, not just to the order of the results, but also remaining at zero when displayed as a variable in the template. Is there any way to view the numbers in the CP?

No.

I wonder if it’s because you aren’t running your single entry template in dynamic mode.  Why is that, BTW?

I’ve got a related entry url_title also in the url. The structure of the url is:

/template_group/category/related_entry/url_title

That’s probably it - I’ll bet EE can’t decide which url_title to increment the counter for.

Okay. If that’s so, I’m stuffed right? I know it has to be a single entry, but it doesn’t say anything in the docs about it having to be dynamic.

I’d test it first just to ensure that removing the extra url_title but leaving the tag not in dynamic mode and see what happens.  If no-go then run it in traditional dynamic mode just to see what happens.

I’m guessing it’s not in the docs because it wasn’t an expected use-case and no one has run into it before.

Thanks for all this. I’ve run what you’ve said earlier, so it looks like I’ll have to try something else.

I suppose I could call a separate template with javascript each time the entry is loaded, just for the sake of counting the entry, but it doesn’t feel right to me.

Thank you for the help, Mike!

Clive, have you tried the relaxed_track_views hidden config variable?

Hmm. Looks promising.

EDIT: And it’s worked. Thanks Lisa - you can close this one off.

WOOT!  Glad to have helped you out, Clive.  If anything else comes up, you know where to find us!