[PR] General updates

[quantumJLBass]

Changes

• Updates the tracker to use the Universal Tracker from Google
• provides a choice on how the site is to be segmented via a series of dropdown options
• make it optional to use a theme level event file
• allow the theme level events to override or extend the defaults
• provide the same event handling options for jQuery UI since our spine has them

  Left to do

• [x] Provide the Spine Framework default events (should be optional i'd guess? maybe not)
• [x] fill out the WSU organizational schema
• [x] Replace the "some label" in the media element events
• [x] Replace hard coded WSUWP Platform app level ID with filter we can hook into.

[jeremyfelt]

From the perspective of reducing the number of options:

• It'd be nicer to defer to the theme automatically rather than having an option for Extend Defaults
• For Use jQuery UI, what are the benefits/drawbacks of having it enabled/disabled? Can we just default to on and not present the option?
• I'd like to ensure the Turn on debug option only appears in local development.

We're probably best creating a Settings -> Analytics page at this point to reduce how overwhelming the General settings page is.

[jeremyfelt]

Where is the work being done on the Campus / College / Parent Unit / Unit break down?

I'd like to add that as another taxonomy to the University Taxonomy repository as it has purposes other than analytics as well. I know we plan on using this data for the people directory as well.

We can then auto fill these drop downs based on what is in the taxonomy.

[quantumJLBass]

•It'd be nicer to defer to the theme automatically rather than having an option for Extend Defaults

The reason I did it this way is as a user I wanted all of the defaults, but I needed to add just one more rule.

•For Use jQuery UI, what are the benefits/drawbacks of having it enabled/disabled? Can we just default to on and not present the option?

If you are not using any of the jQuery UI parts (out side of the Spine) then there is no need to load rules for it. The goal is to load as few rules as we can

•I'd like to ensure the Turn on debug option only appears in local development.

It's there to override that local check you had, so makes sense

We're probably best creating a Settings -> Analytics page

:+1:

[quantumJLBass]

Where is the work being done on the Campus / College / Parent Unit / Unit break down?

Bob is doing that, and yes agreed it was intended to have it in a central place.

[jeremyfelt]

The reason I did it this way is as a user I wanted all of the defaults, but I needed to add just one more rule.

A theme file can extend the default file, right?

If you are not using any of the jQuery UI parts (out side of the Spine) then there is no need to load rules for it. The goal is to load as few rules as we can

I'm not familiar with the jQuery UI rules. What events are being toggled with this setting?

[jeremyfelt]

Chatted with @jeremyBass in person.

• We're going to provide an action for themes to hook in and replace or extend the object provided by default_events.js. This allows us to remove the Extend Defaults option.
• May need to reword the Use jQuery UI option to Track jQuery UI events. We don't care about these events globally, but somebody may want to track them at a site level. I'm personally still up in the air on this as another creative solution may be available. Will wait to see an example implementation.
• Bob is working on a unit taxonomy that we'll load into the WSU University Taxonomy so that we can pre-fill the campus, college, parent unit, unit boxes.

[jeremyfelt]

What should happen if GA is not entered for a site? Should we remove that from the tracker data entirely or continue to provide it, just with an empty string as the tracker ID?

I think now we do the latter.

[quantumJLBass]

What should happen if GA is not entered for a site?

The way it has been reset is yes if there is false (no site GA provided ) that we are still pushing it out. It is not an empty string, it's "false". The reason is that it auto corrects, and although is not firing the site scope GA, it is firing the Global, and the App scopes.

[jeremyfelt]

RE: empty site level GA ID

It is not an empty string, it's "false".

Ahh, yes - I missed that. So we're good the way it is now I believe.

[jeremyfelt]

• On/off flags are in for tracking global, app, and site analytics.
• A hard coded array of unit types is in.

Will hard code campuses and colleges in about an hour if it doesn't get hit first.

[jeremyfelt]

Colleges and campuses are in.

[jeremyfelt]

How are we looking @jeremyBass? I'm a little hesitant to ship on Friday, but as long as we do it in early afternoon so we have time to revert, I'm good.

I'd be comfortable with 8:30am (pre open lab) or 1:30pm (post lunch) if we're game tomorrow.

[quantumJLBass]

@jeremyfelt , I'm not feeling all that well and I may call in tomorrow, and although I don't expect any issues, I think we should wait for Monday or Tuesday unless there is any thing pressing. We are going to do a full test tomorrow morning with our whole unit on the uxtest.web.wsu.edu site, which has the plugin basically hard coded in, so we should be able to root out any issues there if there are any.

I know even if I call in, I'll be online at some point mid day anyways so if we want to we can do the 1:30 for sure. I'm comfortable either way.

[jeremyfelt]

I'm much more comfortable waiting until Monday, so :+1: on that plan if it goes that way. Hope you feel better!

[quantumJLBass]

super sounds good and thanks I hope I do as well. I'll try to test things out first thing in the morning regardless for a final check too.

[jeremyfelt]

Let's go for it.