Variability with setUserId

Having a problem with User ID (User ID - Analytics Platform - Matomo). The problem is that the userId (username) is associated with the visitor IP some but not all of the time.

Particulars:

  1. Before our Angular.js client application bootstraps (angular.bootstrap()), we HTTP GET a json ‘user’ object which has a username (string) attribute.

  2. Upon successful retrieval of the user object, Angular.js runs (module.run()) and sets the Piwik user ID:

angular.module(‘app’)
.run([

if(user.hasOwnProperty(‘username’)){
_paq.push([‘setUserId’, user.username]);
}

}])

  • the weird thing is that it works some of the time but not all of the time, even though the user/username is always present.

Am I missing some async issue?
Any ideas?

Hi there,

When you call setUserId you then need to call one of the trackXXX function. otherwise the call to setUserId will not by itself send the request to Piwik.