Page titles not showing in reports

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Scott McAdams
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This page title setting has never worked for me. It is selected in the profile setting, but the reports never show the page title, just the URL.

This is a business requirement for my reports so I would very much like to get it to work.
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Michael
Do you use dynamic HTML reports or static HTML/PDF reports? Title retrieval works for static reports only now.
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Scott McAdams
I use static PDF reports.

But now I am wondering how are the page titles retrieved? It would not be in the log data- so is it querying the URL at the time of report generation?

Maybe it's web access issue?
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Michael
The program downloads pages from the site and extracts titles from them when it needs to create the report. So there may be two main reasons for the issue:

1. The program cannot access the site because of a firewall. In this case you can change the firewall settings, clear the page title cache in Options > Analysis > Log Cache and try to analyze the profile once again.

2. Your site is password-protected. As the program doesn't specified a password when it tries to get pages, it cannot access them and retrieve titles. It's not possible to specify password to be used to retrieve titles in the program settings now.
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Scott McAdams
I guess I am out of luck since I have both a firewall and password protection.

It would be nice if you could manually enter page titles, or alternate display names for the URLs in the reports. Just to make it more user-friendly for report distribution.
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Michael
Thank you for the suggestion. There is also a similar idea in out community at https://getsatisfaction.com/weblogexp... , so you can vote (+1) for it.

The main reason why we haven't implemented this feature yet is that we are not sure that people will really use this feature, as even if the automatic title retrieval doesn't work, adding titles for a lot of pages manually may require a lot of time. However, we may implement it if we get more requests for this feature.
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Eric Stumne
I have this same issue. The page titles show fine on the “Most Popular Pages” section, however they don’t show up on the “Pages and Queries” section of the report. Seems like they should be consistent.
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Michael
The page titles are shown for file URLs only now, they aren't shown for the query strings. We'll consider adding support for page titles in this case.