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 ====== Collecting Basic Data using Visitors Phone ====== ====== Collecting Basic Data using Visitors Phone ======
  
-This application note provides a gentle starting point for learnig about the Visitor Data Collection functionality of Blocks. While it shows the basic steps for collecgin visigor data based on mobile phones, it provides no useful functionality beyond the data collection as such.+This application note provides a gentle starting point for learning about the Visitor Data Collection functionality of Blocks. While it shows the basic steps for collecting visitor data based on mobile phones, it provides no useful functionality beyond the data collection as such.
  
 ===== Installation ===== ===== Installation =====
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 ==== Viewing the Results ==== ==== Viewing the Results ====
  
-As mentioned at the beginning of this application not, all it does is collect data frmo visitor's phones. The resulting data ends up in the //record// directory of your Blocks server, in the subdirectory named after the data type collected, which in this case is //HelloWorldData//. Herein you'll find a folder named with the identity given to the visitor's phone, beginning with a P followed by a number. There's one such folder for each uniwue data record, containing at least a TSV file with a log of all the actions taken by the visitor affecting the data record. A TSV file is similar to its more well known CSV cousin, but uses tab characters as separators instead of commas. The content of the file can be viewed in a text editor, or opened using a spreadsheet such as Microsoft Excel or Apple Numbers. Here's an example of what it can look like:+As mentioned at the beginning of this application not, all it does is collect data from visitor's phones. The resulting data ends up in the //record// directory of your Blocks server, in the subdirectory named after the data type collected, which in this case is //HelloWorldData//. Herein you'll find a folder named with the identity given to the visitor's phone, beginning with a P followed by a number. There's one such folder for each unique data record, containing at least a TSV file with a log of all the actions taken by the visitor affecting the data record. A TSV file is similar to its more well known CSV cousin, but uses tab characters as separators instead of commas. The content of the file can be viewed in a text editor, or opened using a spreadsheet such as Microsoft Excel or Apple Numbers. Here's an example of what it can look like:
  
 {{ :blocks:app-note:visitor:visitortsvdata.png?nolink&400 |}} {{ :blocks:app-note:visitor:visitortsvdata.png?nolink&400 |}}