importing logs before piwik creation date (2 replies)

hello, i have recently created a piwik install, (feb 2014.) after the install was completed, i used the bulk tracking api to push older logs (may 2013) into the database. i can see the visitor logs but when i try to look at aggregated data, i get nothing.

in order to view the visitor logs, i manually changed the date range (not able to use the date selector widgets) but when using this same method to view the actual dashboard representation of the combined logs, i got an api error with no data for selected range

in order to fix this, i manually changed the time stamp in the piwik_site table, and while i am now able to use the date widgets to select times going back to the manually set time,and i no longer get an api error, i get zeroes for everything on the dash.

is this a supported use case? i can see in the mysql tables that something happened for may 2013:

mysql> select * from piwik_archive_numeric_2013_05;
+-----------+----------------------------------------------------+--------+------------+------------+--------+---------------------+-------+
| idarchive | name | idsite | date1 | date2 | period | ts_archived | value |
+-----------+----------------------------------------------------+--------+------------+------------+--------+---------------------+-------+
| 1 | done<data redacted>.VisitsSummary | 1 | 2013-05-01 | 2013-05-01 | 1 | 2014-02-12 15:00:13 | 1 |
| 1 | nb_uniq_visitors | 1 | 2013-05-01 | 2013-05-01 | 1 | 2014-02-12 15:00:13 | 7 |
| 1 | nb_visits | 1 | 2013-05-01 | 2013-05-01 | 1 | 2014-02-12 15:00:13 | 7 |
| 1 | nb_actions | 1 | 2013-05-01 | 2013-05-01 | 1 | 2014-02-12 15:00:13 | 27 |
| 1 | max_actions | 1 | 2013-05-01 | 2013-05-01 | 1 | 2014-02-12 15:00:13 | 13 |
| 1 | sum_visit_length | 1 | 2013-05-01 | 2013-05-01 | 1 | 2014-02-12 15:00:13 | 1402 |
| 1 | bounce_count | 1 | 2013-05-01 | 2013-05-01 | 1 | 2014-02-12 15:00:13 | 3 |
| 2 | done<data redacted>.VisitsSummary | 1 | 2013-05-02 | 2013-05-02 | 1 | 2014-02-12 15:00:13 | 1 |
| 3 | done<data redacted>.VisitsSummary | 1 | 2013-05-03 | 2013-05-03 | 1 | 2014-02-12 15:00:13 | 1 |
| 4 | done<data redacted>.VisitsSummary | 1 | 2013-05-04 | 2013-05-04 | 1 | 2014-02-12 15:00:13 | 1 |
| 4 | nb_uniq_visitors | 1 | 2013-05-04 | 2013-05-04 | 1 | 2014-02-12 15:00:13 | 1 |
| 4 | nb_visits | 1 | 2013-05-04 | 2013-05-04 | 1 | 2014-02-12 15:00:13 | 1 |
| 4 | nb_actions | 1 | 2013-05-04 | 2013-05-04 | 1 | 2014-02-12 15:00:13 | 1 |
| 4 | max_actions | 1 | 2013-05-04 | 2013-05-04 | 1 | 2014-02-12 15:00:13 | 1 |
| 4 | bounce_count | 1 | 2013-05-04 | 2013-05-04 | 1 | 2014-02-12 15:00:13 | 1 |
| 5 | done<data redacted>.VisitsSummary | 1 | 2013-05-05 | 2013-05-05 | 1 | 2014-02-12 15:00:13 | 1 |
| 5 | nb_uniq_visitors | 1 | 2013-05-05 | 2013-05-05 | 1 | 2014-02-12 15:00:13 | 3 |
| 5 | nb_visits | 1 | 2013-05-05 | 2013-05-05 | 1 | 2014-02-12 15:00:13 | 3 |
| 5 | nb_actions | 1 | 2013-05-05 | 2013-05-05 | 1 | 2014-02-12 15:00:13 | 11 |
| 5 | max_actions | 1 | 2013-05-05 | 2013-05-05 | 1 | 2014-02-12 15:00:13 | 7 |
| 5 | sum_visit_length | 1 | 2013-05-05 | 2013-05-05 | 1 | 2014-02-12 15:00:13 | 404 |
| 6 | done<data redacted>.VisitsSummary | 1 | 2013-05-06 | 2013-05-06 | 1 | 2014-02-12 15:00:13 | 1 |
| 7 | done<data redacted>.VisitsSummary | 1 | 2013-05-07 | 2013-05-07 | 1 | 2014-02-12 15:00:13 | 1 |
| 8 | done<data redacted>.VisitsSummary | 1 | 2013-05-08 | 2013-05-08 | 1 | 2014-02-12 15:00:13 | 1 |
| 9 | done<data redacted>.VisitsSummary | 1 | 2013-05-09 | 2013-05-09 | 1 | 2014-02-12 15:00:14 | 1 |
| 10 | done<data redacted>.VisitsSummary | 1 | 2013-05-10 | 2013-05-10 | 1 | 2014-02-12 15:00:14 | 1 |
| 11 | done<data redacted>.VisitsSummary | 1 | 2013-05-11 | 2013-05-11 | 1 | 2014-02-12 15:00:14 | 1 |
| 12 | done<data redacted>.VisitsSummary | 1 | 2013-05-12 | 2013-05-12 | 1 | 2014-02-12 15:00:14 | 1 |
| 13 | done<data redacted>.VisitsSummary | 1 | 2013-05-13 | 2013-05-13 | 1 | 2014-02-12 15:00:14 | 1 |
| 14 | done<data redacted>.VisitsSummary | 1 | 2013-05-14 | 2013-05-14 | 1 | 2014-02-12 15:00:14 | 1 |
| 15 | done<data redacted>.VisitsSummary | 1 | 2013-05-15 | 2013-05-15 | 1 | 2014-02-12 15:00:14 | 1 |
| 16 | done.VisitsSummary | 1 | 2013-05-01 | 2013-05-15 | 5 | 2014-02-12 15:00:14 | 1 |
| 17 | done.Actions | 1 | 2013-05-01 | 2013-05-15 | 5 | 2014-02-12 15:00:14 | 1 |
| 18 | done.Referrers | 1 | 2013-05-01 | 2013-05-15 | 5 | 2014-02-12 15:00:21 | 1 |
| 19 | done.VisitorInterest | 1 | 2013-05-01 | 2013-05-15 | 5 | 2014-02-12 15:00:22 | 1 |
| 20 | done.VisitTime | 1 | 2013-05-01 | 2013-05-15 | 5 | 2014-02-12 15:00:22 | 1 |
| 21 | done.UserSettings | 1 | 2013-05-01 | 2013-05-15 | 5 | 2014-02-12 15:00:23 | 1 |
| 22 | done.VisitsSummary | 1 | 2013-05-01 | 2013-05-05 | 5 | 2014-02-12 15:03:56 | 1 |
| 23 | done.Referrers | 1 | 2013-05-01 | 2013-05-05 | 5 | 2014-02-12 15:03:56 | 1 |
| 24 | done.UserSettings | 1 | 2013-05-01 | 2013-05-05 | 5 | 2014-02-12 15:03:56 | 1 |
| 25 | done.VisitTime | 1 | 2013-05-01 | 2013-05-05 | 5 | 2014-02-12 15:03:56 | 1 |
| 26 | done.VisitorInterest | 1 | 2013-05-01 | 2013-05-05 | 5 | 2014-02-12 15:03:56 | 1 |
+-----------+----------------------------------------------------+--------+------------+------------+--------+---------------------+-------+
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