Issue with Regex in Goals

[Birkaransingh94]

Hi Team,

There's an issue when a page visits goal has been setup with regex:
For E.g:
Correct Regex is:
https://example.example.co.uk/checkout/ABCD[0-9]+/$

However, when saving it in goals, it removes "+" from the regex and saves it as:
https://example.example.co.uk/checkout/ABCD[0-9] /$

Thanks.

[michalkleiner]

Yeah, I can see how that would happen as + is a space in the URL format.

[michalkleiner]

Mildly related to #20875 where the validation would also help see this issue.

[sgiehl]

This looks like another problem related to #4231, but might already be possible to solve that by switching the goals api to use unsanitized parameters. See #19624

[michalkleiner]

@Birkaransingh94 can you see if Stefan's suggestion to switch the goals api to using unsanitised parameters helps?

[sgiehl]

@michalkleiner This is something we would need to do in the code

[michalkleiner]

Ah right, I thought that was already an existing option. Apologies for the confusion.

[ampaze]

Is someone working on this? As Matomo does not support Goal Tracking for past events, saving/creating an goal with .+ in the regex will lose valuable information.

[michalkleiner]

Not that I'm aware of at the moment, @ampaze. If you're keen to provide a PR we'll definitely look at it, otherwise it'll be up to the product team to prioritise the work on this.