Where did Segments go in 2.11.0?

reynlds · February 18, 2015, 8:58pm

I know this article specifies the changes, but it seems that the Segments have taken a HUGE step backwards! I’d rather define a segment and navigate through the reports, than have to choose a report and navigate through the segments. Horribly counter-intuitive and broken. Where is the documentation on this?

github.com/matomo-org/matomo

New icon in all reports: let me segment by visitors matching this row's criteria

opened 04:47AM - 06 Feb 14 UTC

closed 04:20AM - 16 Feb 15 UTC

mattab

Major Enhancement c: Usability

The goal of this ticket is to create a mechanism to let user view the Visitor Lo…g report filtered to only show visitors matching a given criteria that the Piwik user is interested in. In particular, in each datatable report that supports it, eg. in the Browsers table, next to the labels eg. "Firefox 33" there is an icon. On click, it opens a popover that shows all visitors that match the segment 'visitor uses browser firefox 33'. Another example: viewing the custom variables report you can directly see all users using this particular custom var. Will work the same for Screen resolutions, Keywords, campaigns or any other report. ##### Tasks - [x] API: Update Metadata APIs to include the information whether a particular metadata report is linked to a segment. For example Referrers.getKeywords returns data from the segment keyword. - Proposed: Add a new "segment" entry in the metadata array - [x] For each datatable row, if necessary, include the segment value that will match this row (in case it's not simply the label value eg. for browsers a code is used) - [x] UX: Add new icon in all report tables. The icon is added for all reports where the metadata indicates the report has an equivalent "segment". - [x] The icon has a tooltip such as "View all Visitors with this Keyword" or "View all visitors who visited this Page URL". - [x] When clicked, the Visitor Log, segmented to show only those matching the clicked row label, are displayed in the popover. - The popover should have meaningful title, - maybe include the Segment Editor pre-set to this custom segment?, - display the current segment value eg. `Browser is 'Firefox 33'` ##### Implementation The Visitor Log is filtered to show only visitors matching a given segmentation string: [learn more about segmentation capability](http://piwik.org/docs/segmentation/) of Piwik. Our [Metadata API](http://developer.piwik.org/api-reference/metadata) also is full featured and in many ways useful. For this issue we will - extend the metadata API to make it provide a new flag that says whether the report supports segmentation. - provide for each row, the segment value that will match this particular row / dimension. Note: this was inspired from the plugin in #3861

matthieu · February 19, 2015, 4:26am

I have no idea what you’re talking about - can you describe the issue in other words?

reynlds · February 19, 2015, 2:35pm

Surely…there used to be a “Segments” box next to the date where you could build or modify a particular segment that you wanted to follow/report on, and was populated with “All Visits” by default. This allowed me to (just like the date) set a segment and report on it across all areas of Piwik. However, the Segments box is no longer there. Now there is an “Open Segmented…blah, blah”, but only on some of the reports. I can no longer show the segments that I had built, which makes the product a lot less useful, at least to me. If there is a way to again create and show Segmented data across all reports I’d love to know exactly where it is.

EDIT: screenshots of old (working) and new (undesireable) segments

reynlds · February 19, 2015, 7:25pm

I found the issue. Segments are now configured as a plug-in and were not activated.