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automatically set usernames as Custom Variables from cookie values #3622

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mattab opened this issue Dec 17, 2012 · 6 comments
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automatically set usernames as Custom Variables from cookie values #3622

mattab opened this issue Dec 17, 2012 · 6 comments
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mattab commented Dec 17, 2012

We could detect the username of users logged in wordpress, joomla, drupal, popular CMS here. By reading cookie matching a name and looking in the value, we can see the username and set as custom variable automatically.

This would be useful!
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hpvd commented Jan 17, 2013

would be also very interesting for magento e.g. small shops with only some but often returning vistors/customers...

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halfdan commented Feb 7, 2013

Several things:

  1. Automatically setting the username as a custom variable could potentially create privacy issues.
  2. What if users already set n other custom variables?
  3. Should this not be a feature provided by the Piwik integrations for popular CMS here? E.g. could this not be done by WP-Piwik for Wordpress?

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mattab commented Feb 7, 2013

  1. it woudl be disabled by default

  2. It would be only set if there is an empty slot (as scope=visit)

  3. it's easier to implement it once in the piwik.js rather than have 10 plugins each implement the cookie reading + custom var setting (so, IMO it's more realistic / easier to do it in core).

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hpvd commented Nov 17, 2013

maybe it could be done together with #3490

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I've looked for addon like this. i need there's seen visitors' usernames of my forum

It would be great If that addon is for Vbulletin forum (for example, most popular version is 3.8.7)

@mattab mattab added this to the 2.x - The Great Piwik 2.x Backlog milestone Jul 8, 2014
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mattab commented Nov 29, 2017

As we will deprecate custom variables in #11524, closing this issue as Won't fix.

We now recommend to use Custom Dimensions instead.

@mattab mattab closed this as completed Nov 29, 2017
@mattab mattab added the wontfix If you can reproduce this issue, please reopen the issue or create a new one describing it. label Dec 5, 2017
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