Transition Technology: Ticket #431: Webmaster can't edit/change/view widgets

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jim — Sun, 21 Oct 2012 18:05:37 GMT

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Not trying to be negative, but this is outside the scope of the original spec isn't it? We never had a 'my widgets' page, and how can we since the code is cut/pasted into a site -- there's no extra admin/tracking here that lets a widget 'phone home'.

There is no facility or allowance for this, and will require significant alterations to logic to enable it... In fact I can't even think of a good way to do this.

Marking as 'not for Alpha' and letting Ed think and us chat as needs be.

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ed — Mon, 22 Oct 2012 12:01:07 GMT

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hmm OK. We are still tracking the widgets, though, as per this ticket yes? https://tech.transitionnetwork.org/trac/ticket/382

jim — Mon, 22 Oct 2012 12:15:11 GMT

If Piwik has been set up, then we'll see activity on TN relating to PSE stuff -- i.e. all things related to viewing/editing via the widget at tn.org/pse/*.

BUT we can't track installations without extra work because the standard html/js model does not allow things inside iFrames to access outside, or vice versa.

Any code we add to the widget wrapper (the bit people paste into their web pages) will slow the widget down, and make people ansi about using it as we'll effectively be tracking ALL views of a page containing the widget -- this is not what we want.

So there's tracking, and there's tracking EVERYTHING. We will face security/trust issues to go outside 'our area', or extra development to get the widget to phone home.

Not though, that every widget display (view) has the user ID and node id of the initiative in the url, e.g. http://www.transitionnetwork.org/pse/view/sidebar/1/10006 so we can see what widgets for what initiatives are most popular.

Is this all ok? I think we have what we can safely have, any more will be tricky.

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jim — Mon, 22 Oct 2012 12:17:09 GMT

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And to be clear: by "we can't track installations" I mean, we can't see what page/site a widget was hosted on, only that it was requested for a given set of user/ini IDs.

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ed — Mon, 18 Feb 2013 10:52:54 GMT

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closing as this is in parallel to #382...

as long as we can see the following

how many widgets are in action
traffic generated by widdgets
number of projects generated from widgets