Hi all. I have a question related to analytics click events. I have a collections that I want to update, but before anything, I wanted to test this out. I used the documentation to create a

products

table with a

popularity

field, but no specific id field, so Typesense created it for me. I created 3 documents but deleted 1,3, and then created #4, leaving on 2,4 as documents. I created a simple

products_click_event

rule to update the popularity field, where the source and destination were both products and then using curl, fired the event to update #2. The response was "ok", but the popularity wasn't changed. Looking at the example in the documentation, on a whim, I fired the event for doc_id 1124 and it updated product 2, and 1125 updated product 4. This didn't make sense to me. I deleted the rule, recreated it, and fired for doc_id 2 and now it worked. I updated my

stories

collection to have a

popularity

field, created the rule

stories_click_event

and then fired the event for one of my documents, using its document id. Similar to the products example, the response was "ok", but the popularity wasn't changed. I deleted and recreated the rule, but same "no change". One thing to note is that the

id

field on

stories

is being created in a custom way, instead of Typesense managing it. Regardless, I'm not sure where to go with this, or why products_click_event worked after I deleted/recreated the rule, but not the first time, or why the stories_click_event doesn't work at all. Any and all help is appreciated!

The field will not be updated as soon as the click events comes through, there's a flush interval that needs to take place first. So that may be why you faced that behavior. Do click events go through now and update the documents?

Hi Fanis, thanks for responding. I did change the flush interval to 10, which I believe is 10 seconds, but that hasn't made any difference as I have waited long enough for the flush event to have happened.

--analytics-flush-interval=10

Do click events still go through without the analytics rule being in place?

no, it says the event doesn't exist

Are you on typesense cloud or self-hosting?

local instance for development

Can you post a quick set of curl commands that replicate the behavior like here? https://gist.github.com/jasonbosco/7c3432713216c378472f13e72246f46b It's hard for us to debug without having a reproducible environment of this

Yes I will do that. I very much appreciate your help. I honestly didn't expect such a quick response, and I had to stop working on this, but I will do it as soon as I can