No hierarchical reports, by 'page titles'

FR90 · September 27, 2019, 1:59pm

Hi all

Last july, We have upgraded matomo from 3.2.1 to 3.9.1 .

Before, we could display reports, by Page titles an by Pages, in herarchical view

Now, it seems it’s no more possible to display by page titles in hierarchical view !

No sign + in front of each lign to expand it, and no ability to change option ‘The report is flat, make it hierarcchical (default)’ (not displayed)

It works for reports by Pages !

Is it a new usage ? A bug ? Or I missed a parameter in config file or other ?

Thanks for your help
FR

Lukas · September 29, 2019, 9:28am

Hi,

This was intentionally changed in

github.com/matomo-org/matomo

Actions>Page Titles believes there is a subpage if page <title> includes a forwards slash

opened 03:31AM - 20 Feb 12 UTC

closed 07:10PM - 29 Nov 18 UTC

mattab

Bug

Currently, if the html page <title> is "Test / Hello", Piwik will report in A…ctions > Page Titles the directory "Test", clickable to open the sub page "Hello". This is confusing for users, because often, slash characters in the page title, does not imply a notion of hierarchy. However, [as we document it on the JS tracking doc](http://piwik.org/docs/javascript-tracking/#toc-customize-the-page-name-displayed-in-piwik), it is possible to set the document title to a given value and use this technique to classify page titles in a given hierarchy, eg. "Article / Sport / XYZ". Because by default Page titles do not contain hierarchy, I propose that: - when setDocumentTitle is called, we do split the page title based on the slash character - In the default Javascript tracking code, when setDocumentTitle is not used, we do NOT split the page titles and never create the sub category. - Implementation wise, we could eg. have a different named argument when setdocumentTitle is called ("title") VS when the default <title> value is used (parameter currently named "action_name"). This was [reported in this post](http://forum.piwik.org/read.php?3,85953), #1532, #3364, and I often got frustrated myself with this problem.

as there is no character everyone uses to separate their titles.

To get this back, you just need to add this to the [General] section of your config/config.ini.php :

action_title_category_delimiter = "/"