Allow any plugin to extend and display data in the Visitor Log and Visitor Profile

[tsteur]

Follow up for #6045 where we made it possible for any plugin to add data to the API. Now we want the plugins to extend Live widget, Visitor Log and Visitor profile.

This can be quite complex as we probably do not want loads of events there. Maybe we can start using AngularJS for this as a proof of concept. As they do not use the dataTable it is easier to rewrite this component. Maybe there are other, better solutions as well.

[mattab]

Example use case: Provider plugin to extend Visitor Log and Visitor Profile, covered #5341

[tsteur]

This will be important for #7131 and #4734 . When a type (eg Website or MobileApp) disables some reports/dimensions, the related information should not be shown in the Live plugin. For example if referrers information are disabled by a type "MobileApp", no referrer information should be displayed in the Live reports.

[KaanErturk]

This would be very much useful in order to extend visitor profile popup for additional information. Right now the only hacky way seems to be to add the data to the $visitor['customVariables'] array, even though the values are limited to 50 chars in the template.

Eventually, it would be great to have a way to add new rows (under the avatar) to the visitor profile popup, like Summary, Location, etc. That would give plenty of space to use there.

[mattab]

Adding tentatively to 3.0.3 milestone, to be fixed along with:

• https://github.com/piwik/plugin-CustomDimensions/issues/28 - Show custom dimensions in Visitor log
• Display all campaign channels tags in the Visitor Log and Visitor Profile plugin-MarketingCampaignsReporting#3 - Show campaign tags in Visitor log

Ideally we'd make both Visitor Log and Visitor Profile use same logic so that extending one extends the other too!

[hpvd]

+1

[hpvd]

would be perfect if this solution not only works for plugins but also for Piwiks "own" base data,
e.g. Content-tracking: display content views and interactions in the Visitor log #6416

[hpvd]

for reasons, details, ideas regarding extending informations in visitorlog see also #6416

[hpvd]

when extending information in visitorprofile one maybe should take this into account to give new information the right position:
visitor profile: built image of vistor is distorted #9507

[hpvd]

does this also cover a possibility to extend visitor summary in visitor profile?
would be pretty handy for things like this one:
advanced-online-marketing/AOM#12

[sgiehl]

Actually yes, that should be possible by implementing a VisitorDetails class in the plugin and adding a ProfileSummary.

[hpvd]

many thanks, awesome!