Helper class for incrementing the ViewsCount property of News & Blogs in Sitefinity. This allows one increment per article or post per Session. Also disables incrementing during editing, etc.

SingleItemNewsTemplate.ascx

<%@ Control Language="C#" %>
<%@ Register TagPrefix="telerik" Namespace="Telerik.Web.UI" Assembly="Telerik.Web.UI" %>
<%@ Register TagPrefix="sf" Namespace="Telerik.Sitefinity.Web.UI" Assembly="Telerik.Sitefinity" %>
<%@ Register TagPrefix="sf" Namespace="Telerik.Sitefinity.Web.UI.ContentUI" Assembly="Telerik.Sitefinity" %>
<%@ Register TagPrefix="sf" Namespace="Telerik.Sitefinity.Web.UI.PublicControls.BrowseAndEdit"
    Assembly="Telerik.Sitefinity" %>
      
<%@ Register Assembly="Telerik.Sitefinity.ContentModules" Namespace="Telerik.Sitefinity.Modules.News.Web.UI" TagPrefix="sf" %>      
<%@ Register Assembly="Telerik.Sitefinity" Namespace="Telerik.Sitefinity.Web.UI.ContentUI" TagPrefix="sf" %>
<%@ Register Assembly="Telerik.Sitefinity" Namespace="Telerik.Sitefinity.Modules.Comments.Web.UI.Frontend" TagPrefix="comments" %>
<%@ Import Namespace="Telerik.Sitefinity.Web.UI" %>
<%@ Import Namespace="Telerik.Sitefinity.Modules.Comments" %>
 
<sf:SitefinityLabel id="title" runat="server" WrapperTagName="div" HideIfNoText="true" HideIfNoTextMode="Server" /> 
<telerik:RadListView ID="DetailsView" ItemPlaceholderID="ItemContainer" AllowPaging="False"
    runat="server" EnableEmbeddedSkins="false" EnableEmbeddedBaseStylesheet="false">
    <layouttemplate>
            <%-- <div class="sfnewsLinksWrp">
                <sf:MasterViewHyperLink class="sfnewsBack sfback" Text="<%$ Resources:NewsResources, AllNews %>" runat="server" />
            </div> --%>
            <asp:PlaceHolder ID="ItemContainer" runat="server"/>
    </layouttemplate>
    <itemtemplate>
      <%#SitefinityWebApp.Custom.ViewCountHelpers.IncrementNewsViewCount(Eval("Id").ToString())%>
       <div class="sfnewsDetails sfdetails" data-sf-provider='<%# Eval("Provider.Name")%>'  data-sf-id='<%# Eval("Id")%>' data-sf-type="Telerik.Sitefinity.News.Model.NewsItem">
        <h1 class="sfnewsTitle sftitle" data-sf-field="Title" data-sf-ftype="ShortText">
            <asp:Literal Text='<%# Eval("Title") %>' runat="server" />
        </h1>
        <comments:CommentsAverageRatingControl runat="server" 
            ThreadKey='<%# ControlUtilities.GetLocalizedKey(Eval("Id"), null, CommentsBehaviorUtilities.GetLocalizedKeySuffix(Container.DataItem.GetType().FullName)) %>' 
            NavigateUrl="#commentsWidget" AllowComments='<%# Eval("AllowComments") %>' 
            DisplayMode="FullText" 
            ThreadType='<%# Container.DataItem.GetType().FullName %>'/>
        <div class="sfnewsAuthorAndDate sfmetainfo">
            <asp:Literal Text="<%$ Resources:Labels, By %>" runat="server" /> 
            <sf:PersonProfileView runat="server" /> | <sf:FieldListView ID="PublicationDate" runat="server" 
                Format="{PublicationDate.ToLocal():MMM dd, yyyy}" />
            <comments:CommentsCountControl runat="server" 
                ThreadKey='<%# ControlUtilities.GetLocalizedKey(Eval("Id"), null, CommentsBehaviorUtilities.GetLocalizedKeySuffix(Container.DataItem.GetType().FullName)) %>' 
                NavigateUrl="#commentsWidget" AllowComments='<%# Eval("AllowComments") %>' 
                DisplayMode="ShortText" 
                ThreadType='<%# Container.DataItem.GetType().FullName %>'/>
 
        </div>
        <sf:FieldListView ID="summary" runat="server" Text="{0}" Properties="Summary" WrapperTagName="div" WrapperTagCssClass="sfnewsSummary sfsummary"  EditableFieldType="ShortText"/> 
        <div class="sfnewsContent sfcontent" data-sf-field="Content" data-sf-ftype="LongText">
            <asp:Literal Text='<%# Eval("Content") %>' runat="server" />
        </div>
           <asp:PlaceHolder ID="socialOptionsContainer" runat="server">
           </asp:PlaceHolder>
           <comments:CommentsWidget runat="server"
               ThreadKey='<%# ControlUtilities.GetLocalizedKey(Eval("Id"), null, CommentsBehaviorUtilities.GetLocalizedKeySuffix(Container.DataItem.GetType().FullName)) %>' 
               AllowComments='<%# Eval("AllowComments") %>' ThreadTitle='<%# Eval("Title") %>' ThreadType='<%# Container.DataItem.GetType().FullName %>' 
               GroupKey='<%# ControlUtilities.GetUniqueProviderKey("Telerik.Sitefinity.Modules.News.NewsManager", Eval("Provider.Name").ToString()) %>'
               DataSource='<%# Eval("Provider.Name")%>' />
       </div>
       <sf:NewsView ControlDefinitionName="NewsFrontend" runat="server" Title="Related news" UrlKeyPrefix="" ContentViewDisplayMode="Master" >
        <RelatedDataDefinition RelatedFieldName="RelatedNews" RelatedItemType="Telerik.Sitefinity.News.Model.NewsItem" RelationTypeToDisplay="Child" RelatedItemSource="DataItemContainer">
        </RelatedDataDefinition>
        <ControlDefinition ControlDefinitionName="NewsFrontend" runat="server" ProviderName="OpenAccessDataProvider">
            <Views>
                <sf:ContentViewMasterDefinition ViewName="NewsFrontendList" runat="server">
                </sf:ContentViewMasterDefinition >
                <sf:ContentViewDetailDefinition ViewName="NewsFrontendDetails" runat="server">
                </sf:ContentViewDetailDefinition > 
            </Views>
        </ControlDefinition>
    </sf:NewsView>
    </itemtemplate>
</telerik:RadListView>
   

ViewCountHelpers.cs

using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Linq;
using System.Web;
using Telerik.Sitefinity.Modules.Blogs;
using Telerik.Sitefinity.Modules.News;
using Telerik.Sitefinity.Services;
 
namespace SitefinityWebApp.Custom
{
    public static class ViewCountHelpers
    {
         public static string IncrementNewsViewCount(string id)
        {
            if (HttpContext.Current.Session[id] == null && HttpContext.Current.Session[id] != "true")
            {
                if (!SystemManager.IsDesignMode && !SystemManager.IsInlineEditingMode && !SystemManager.IsPreviewMode)
                {
                    NewsManager man = NewsManager.GetManager();
                    var item = man.GetNewsItems().Where(i => i.Id == new Guid(id)).FirstOrDefault();
                    if (item != null)
                    {
                        man.Provider.SuppressSecurityChecks = true;
                        HttpContext.Current.Session[id] = "true";
                        item.ViewsCount++;
                        man.SaveChanges();
                        man.Provider.SuppressSecurityChecks = false;
                    }
                }
            }
            return string.Empty;
        }

        public static string IncrementBlogsViewCount(string id)
        {
            if (HttpContext.Current.Session[id] == null && HttpContext.Current.Session[id] != "true")
            {
                if (!SystemManager.IsDesignMode && !SystemManager.IsInlineEditingMode && !SystemManager.IsPreviewMode)
                {
                    BlogsManager man = BlogsManager.GetManager();
                    var item = man.GetBlogPosts().Where(i => i.Id == new Guid(id)).FirstOrDefault();
                    if (item != null)
                    {
                        man.Provider.SuppressSecurityChecks = true;
                        HttpContext.Current.Session[id] = "true";
                        item.ViewsCount++;
                        man.SaveChanges();
                        man.Provider.SuppressSecurityChecks = false;
                    }
                }
            }
            return string.Empty;
        }
    }
}

Hi John, I am thanking you alot for the module!

I am just stucked at how to get the item id from MVC Views of the widget. Can you please help me?

@hlong24399 here is an updated Gist using MVC. Since the modifies a content item on each view or technically 1 increment per session you will want to do any type of load testing to see how it may affect your content item load times.

https://gist.github.com/jonathanread/782554723051229a4be55c2518d91cfa