Persist & restore widgets / reports settings, number of items to display, selected columns...

[anonymous-matomo-user]

We should record some settings and preferences in all reports.

List of settings to remember & restore:

• of Rows to display (already saved for dashboard but not for other reports)

• view type: table, goals table, pie chart, etc.
• Selected metrics in graphs
• "Cog" icon

Not MVP

• In Goals report: remember which subreport was clicked in the bottom left selector (eg. websites VS custom var VS etc.)

[mattab]

Currently, the dashboard remembers which "view types" you look at, and then restore it the next time you visit.

It would be interesting indeed to generalize the Dashboard setting save to all Piwik reports, ie. all Piwik reports would remember the last state they were in

• view type: table, goals table, pie chart, etc.
• exclude low population enabled/disabled

Maybe worth a different ticket, but exclude low filter should be based on the total of the datatable column itself, rather than visits, in case report is a subset (of page category, visitor plugins, etc.).

[mattab]

• Could also record the plotted columns last selected and restore them next time
  • Maybe for this we could add a "reset" button so that its easy to come back to "default" state in case they misclicked?
• Also would be nice to record the selected report on the bottom left in Ecommerce, see original ticket at Ecommerce report should load Product Name instead of SKU by default, if defined #2756

[sgiehl]

(In [5891]) refs #1915, fixes #2461 added new limitation select to all datatables. users can now select how many rows to display. limit changes to widgets on dashboard will automaticly be stored within layout and restored on reload. changed default limits to referer datatables to 25

[mattab]

updated ticket description to include all settings to restore as per comments

[sgiehl]

(In [6027]) fixes #2979, refs #1915, refs #3011 completely refactored dashboard and widget javascripts (now using jquery plugins).
selected metrics in dashboard widgets are now stored in layout, too. also implemented some parts simplifying implementation of #3011 and #1915 and a small suggestion of #2461

[gka]

How can I use the persistent widget settings for my own widgets? Is there a generic JavaScript-API to store and recall widget-specific key-value pairs?

[mattab]

Benaka what do you think is left on this ticket?

it would also be nice to have an JS api or function for core&plugins to use to record settings.

[mattab]

It was also reported in: #3369 and request in the forums few times.

[anonymous-matomo-user]

Remembering these settings would make using Piwik a lot slicker and more user friendly. Please include it in a future edition!

[mattab]

This was also reported in #3469 Visits Overview (with graph) does not remember its status

[mattab]

It was reported in: #3807 Save and retrieve last zoom settings for maps

That we could also save & restore the map zoom. Is this a good idea (not sure)?

[tsteur]

In 97f500f: refs #1915 a first version of persist & restore report settings. not everything is saved yet (such as metricsToPlot) but most things are

[tsteur]

In ee2ec2b: refs #1915 reset viewDataTable parameters before each test run to remove previously persisted viewdatatable params from other test runs

[tsteur]

In d509153: refs #1915 added missing method to delete all viewdatatableparams, metricsToPlot should be saved now as well

[tsteur]

Regarding "In Goals report: remember which subreport was clicked in the bottom left selector (eg. websites VS custom var VS etc.)"

As this is not a viewDataTable / Visualization I won't implement this (for now)