Use of wildcards in the SearchEngines.php file

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I am using Piwik on a large Intranet that is not connected to the Internet. We have our own Enterprise search page that offers search by web content, images, & videos. The difference is the parameters that get passed in the UI.

Web Content
www.mysite.com/search.jsp?q=

Image Content
www.mysite.com/search.jsp?q=…&source=images

Video Search
www.mysite.com/search.jsp?q=…&source=video

I would like to track users coming from all three and which ones are bringing users to the websites. Since the values and parameters can change between the q= and the source=, I was hoping to use wildcards but I didn’t see an example of this.

// Image Search
’www.mysite.com’ => array(‘Image Search’, ‘query’, ‘search.jsp?query={k}.&source=images’),
// Video Search
’www.mysite.com’ => array(‘Video Search’, ‘query’, 'search.jsp?query={k}.&source=videos’),
// Web Search
’www.mysite.com’ => array(‘Web Search’, ‘query’, ‘search.jsp?query={k}’),

I did try something like this but it didn’t seem to be working. Is this do able and if so, can someone provide an example?

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Anyone have any ideas about this?

3

No. That’s not what the URL path is used for.

The array contents are:

  • name of the search engine
  • the search/query parameter name when parsing the Referer; this can be a regex
  • a URL with {k} placeholder when creating links in the report
  • encoding

Brush up on your regular expressions; you should be good to go!

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I really don’t understand what I am doing wrong here. Even a simple configuration doesn’t seem to track people coming from a search engine. They all are being marked as a Direct Hit.

My SearchEngines.php has this entry:
‘search.site.com’ => array(‘Enterprise Search’, ‘query’, ‘search.jsp?query={k}’),

When I write out my Refer on my website I am trying to track I see:
https://search.site.com/search.jsp?query=mig%2029%20foxbat&btn=Search&page=1&count=10&to=30&bbox=&source=&filter=&sort=&queryId=&drt=&dtstart=&dtend=&idx=&tab=_default&start=

In the Piwik Console I would expect to see in the “Best Search Engine” widget
Enterprise Search 1

And in the List of Key words widget
mig 29 foxbat

Both of these continue to taunt me with “There is no data for this report.”