Tracker: viewing new and updated content

Last updated July 10, 2012. Created by Dries on September 11, 2004.
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The Tracker core module displays a site's most recently added or updated content. The Tracker module also provides user level tracking, which allows you to follow the contributions of specific authors.

The Recent content page in Drupal 7 (or Recent posts page in Drupal 6) at http://example.com/tracker is available via a link in the default Navigation menu block when the Tracker module is enabled - and the View named 'Tracker' is enabled. Menu items can be administered on the Menus administration page at http://example.com/admin/structure/menu (Administer > Structure > Menus) in Drupal 7, and http://example.com/admin/build/menu (Administer > Site Building > Menus) in Drupal 6.

The Recent content page contains a reverse chronological list of new and recently updated content. The list displays the content type, the title, the author's username, how many comments that item has received, and when it was last updated. Updates include any changes to the text, either by the original author or someone else, as well as any new comments added to an item. A red "new" will display beside the name of each node the current user has not yet navigated to. The My recent content tab on this page limits the list to the currently logged-in user.

To use the Tracker module to see a specific user's updated content, you can click on that user's profile, then their Track tab, or enter the URL http://example.com/user/34/track, where the number is the unique Drupal user ID number.

Aside from enabling and disabling, you cannot administer this module (ie. there are no configuration options). > You can just edit the view "tracker" after having enabled it.

Comments

Number of new and updated content items?

Posted by NPC on February 11, 2010 at 4:37pm

Hi,

Is it possible to output how many new and updated items there are for the current user? I would like to show this number in the "profile" block on all pages, and make it link to the tracker list - so that the users can know that there is something to look for or not.

Or perhaps there is already a module that does something similar?

Regards,
NPC

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Anton Maslo

How to remove author from the block?

Posted by erasoft on November 26, 2011 at 7:51am

How can I delete the author from this view? I don't find any possibility in template.php in Drupal7. CSS visibility doesn't good because the source contains the information... any idea?

You can Edit view tracker

Posted by _redfog on April 26, 2012 at 9:58am

There is a view "tracker" you need to enable, then you can edit it.

Who's updated ?

Posted by _redfog on April 26, 2012 at 10:06am

Even I changed configuration in view "tracker", I don't know how does it possible to see who has done the last update, as in Drupal 7 log. Someone help ?

Thanks

Why Tracker module depends Comment module?

Posted by roxtaz on October 16, 2012 at 5:12pm

In Drupal 7 I can't enable tracker if Comment module is not enabled.
Can't see the logic behind this: I can track comments too or I must track all comments?

Have fun!
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Creating a node, basic page or content to publish Tracker Error.

Posted by hkfletch on January 6, 2013 at 2:20am

I'm a newbie non-programmer & barely a web-guy but who has just installed, Drupal 7 Ubercart and various other modules.

Title: Creating a node, basic page or content to publish to home page or main menu gets n ERROR on the Tracker Module and a "Base Table or view not found" … and also … "a stone2.tracker_node doesn’t exist" message.

After reading about Tracker, I just realized this stone2 is my database in Mysql and it says I am missing
1146 Table 'stone2.tracker_node.' I used PHPMyAdmin, which comes with Xamp, and I did not see this table in my stone2 database. So apparently there is my trouble. But, I still don't know what to do now.

(NOTE: I was thinking earlier that "stone2" was a user I tried to create but I'm pretty sure that was just plain wrong and silly.)

I was mostly successful installing it. But I keep getting a very similar error when I try to create a node, a basic page or publish some content to a home page. See the three examples below, but notice that the Error messages are nearly the same, except for one number, which I tried to make larger and bold to help you see it but it didn't work for me.

The problem seems to have something to do with the Tracker Module and a Base Table or view not being found … and also … a stone2.tracker_node that it says doesn’t exist.

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Example 1) I tried to create a new node, of type Article, with tags and publish it to the Main Menu, I assume on the Home Page. I've checked published and promote to front page and either alone.
But I got an error … Error message

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Example 2) After I tried to create a new Basic Page for a home page I got this message. I don’t think the new page I created ever showed up.

PDOException: SQLSTATE[42S02]: Base table or view not found: 1146 Table 'stone2.tracker_node' doesn't exist: SELECT 1 AS expression FROM {tracker_node} tracker_node WHERE ( (nid = :db_condition_placeholder_0) ) FOR UPDATE; Array ( [:db_condition_placeholder_0] => 4 ) in _tracker_add() (line 264 of C:\xampp\htdocs\drupal718\modules\tracker\tracker.module).
The website encountered an unexpected error. Please try again later.
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Example 3) When I tried to promote some basic content to the home page I got this Error message
PDOException: SQLSTATE[42S02]: Base table or view not found: 1146 Table 'stone2.tracker_node' doesn't exist: SELECT 1 AS expression FROM {tracker_node} tracker_node WHERE ( (nid = :db_condition_placeholder_0) ) FOR UPDATE; Array ( [:db_condition_placeholder_0] => 3 ) in _tracker_add() (line 264 of C:\xampp\htdocs\drupal718\modules\tracker\tracker.module).
The website encountered an unexpected error. Please try again later.
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Example 4) I even tried to save it without publishing it or providing a menu link. Not much changed but that one number. Error message

Thanks! hkfletch