Tracking Link Clicks

Hi,

I posted this before in the "Web Forms" section, but I was just thinking what I might need is an AJAXian solution.

I'm trying to figure out the best way to track user clicks on links. I could easily do this by making all the links LinkButton's and just use the PostBackUrl property or response.redirect or something like that to send the user on to the page they clicked to.

However, this is not a very good solution because spiders would be unable to crawl these links and I need to have the option of opening the pages from the links in a new browser window at times.

So basically if the HyperLink control had an "OnClick" property that fired before doing the default thing (ie following the link), that would be ideal, but it does not.

So I was just wondering if anyone had any good ideas on how to create a "link" control that would allow search engines to crawl the links, allow me to at times open the linked page into a new browser window (ie target=_blank), and also to record the user clicks into a database?

Would there be a way to use the javascript onclick event to fire some function that calls a service or something on the server to update my database with the click information? If so how would I do that?

Hi,

I just replied in your other thread. Though now I've seen you mention AJAX this would allow you to accomplish a lot more.

Cheers,

Al

Trigger set to a userControl controls event

Hi Everyone,

I am pretty new to atlas and I am trying to figure out if it can do what i want it to do. I have a gridview control and a user control on a page. The user control has a button that I would like to have trigger the update panel on the aspx webform for the gridview.

When I do this I get a control ID not valid exception on the page. Is there a way to do this or am i only dreaming of better days?

Thanks

Calvin X

Is this not possible or nobody knows?

Were you able to figure this out? I am contemplating performing the same task, so I am interested if you have had some success.

Thank you!