See who viewed topic

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#1

Is there a way to see all users that viewed a topic? Just curious who is viewing and not replying.

if there is a way, can it be locked to a certain security group?

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#2

This data is in the database but there is no UI to view it.

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#3

This could be a nice item for the admin/wrench menu some day…

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#4

Since this is not an ability to use via the UI. Should this topic be moved over to the suggestions category?

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#5

We are looking at this for personal messages, specifically, where staff can check to see who has seen important messages.

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#6

I see there’s be no message traffic on this post for some time. And, there is still no ability to see who has viewed posts. I can understand why this might be a bit unwieldy is lots of people viewed a particular topic, but if the list was small, it would be good a moderator to be able to see who looked and did nothing more. IMHO.

#7

I don’t know how much work, if any, has gone into making this a feature. But if you use the Data Explorer plugin you can query the topic_users table to find out who has seen a topic. Maybe JOIN with the posts table to see who has visited the topic and who has posted a reply in it?

#8

Hi，Jeff，
Someway，how can we see what topic some user have viewed？
thank you

#9

Yes, you can do this with the Data Explorer Plugin; which means, only staff can do it.

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#10

thanks，it helps me。:smiley:

#11

I’ve got a Data Explorer query for this (which shows username to enable csv / groups / pms stuff):

-- Who viewed this topic? https://meta.discourse.org/t/see-who-viewed-topic/29277/11
-- [params]
-- int :topic_id
SELECT tu.user_id, u.username, total_msecs_viewed/1000 AS seconds_viewed
FROM topic_users tu
JOIN users u ON tu.user_id  = u.id
WHERE tu.topic_id = :topic_id
    AND total_msecs_viewed > 0
GROUP BY tu.user_id, u.username, tu.total_msecs_viewed
ORDER BY tu.total_msecs_viewed desc

If it is okay in your context to reveal email addresses, then I suggest this one instead:

-- Who viewed this topic? With emails. https://meta.discourse.org/t/see-who-viewed-topic/29277/11
-- [params]
-- int :topic_id
SELECT tu.user_id, email, total_msecs_viewed/1000 AS seconds_viewed
FROM topic_users tu
JOIN user_emails ue ON tu.user_id  = ue.user_id
WHERE tu.topic_id = :topic_id
    AND total_msecs_viewed > 0
GROUP BY tu.user_id, ue.email, tu.total_msecs_viewed
ORDER BY tu.total_msecs_viewed desc
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