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PauloGGPX
05-23-2009, 07:57 PM
Thanks, nice idea ;) I think I'll go first:

FPPAnalytics v1.4 *UPDATED*

With FPPAnalytics it's easy to discover what your visitors are doing inside your tours. Until now we could only see how many visitors we had but not their behaviour. FPPAnalytics is a Flash Panorama Player plugin that enables the Google Analytics tracking service to analyse the behavior of our visitors in our tours. It tracks the filename of your panorama the moment it's loaded and it appends a base tour name so you can group tour clicks easily. You also can track clicks in your hotspots, menu buttons etc.

Fully customizable from your main XML

How to use it:
- first you need a Google Analytics account (http://www.google.com/analytics/) (if you're new to this service follow their tutorials, they're really good)
- after setting up your Google Analytics account you'll get a Web Property ID (something like UA-######-#)
- now setup FPPAnalytics like any other plugin in FPP (replace the UA-######-# with your own Web Property ID):
<panorama>
<parameters>
layer_20 = hotspots.swf
layer_30 = fppanalytics.swf
panoName = images/panoramaFile
</parameters>

<fppanalytics>
webid = UA-######-#
debug = false
baseName = FPP Analytics Demo
folderMask = images/
</fppanalytics>

<hotspots>
<global>
<box id="HotSpot_Click" url="hotspot.png" linked="images/panoramaFile"
onClick="external.fppanalytics.trackHS=This hotspot was clicked;" />
</global>
</hotspots>
</panorama>

- and you're good to go.

To verify if the plugin is working you should install the Flash Tracer Firefox Add-On and take a look at the trace statements as the analytics service can take up to 24H to reflect your clicks.

Parameters (if you don't include a parameter it will revert to the default value):

webid - your Web Property ID provided by Google. If you don't add this parameter no tracking will be done.
debug - if set to true FPPAnalytics won't send the information to Google but will give you an alert box with what it would track (usefull if you don't have the FlashTracer Firefox AddOn, Default is FALSE)
baseName - it' the name of the actual tour, the name you wish to goup all the panoramas under. Default is FPPTour.
folderMask - If your panoramas are inside a folder but you don't wish to have it in the name that gets tracked, place the part ou wish to remove. Default is NULL, no masking will be done.

External call:

external.fppanalytics.trackHS=String to identify this click

Use this method to call the FPPAnalytics functionality from any kind of hotspots, The string will be added to the end of the current panorama loaded so we know what was the active file when the user clicked the hotspot.

Get the FPPAnalytics plugin here (http://gogopixel.pt/fppanalytics).
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PauloGGPX
10-24-2009, 01:17 AM
[UPDATE]
Almost a year has gone since the last update :) but as promised I haven't given up on this.

Thanks to some users that gave me their feedback and showed me some limitations of the way we interact with the plugin, I made a few modification and added a few more options.

New things in v1.4:
A way to disable the trace commands (that we can see with the Flash Tracer Firefox Add-On), this improves performance a bit and prevent the most curious users to see what's going on.
A Manual Mode that basically disables the FPP:Analytics plugin, useful when we use low resolutions previews or for when we need absolute control over when a panorama is tracked.
A new manualTrack external command, to be used with the Manual mode, track you panoramas when you want it, how you want it :)
A new globalTrackHS external command, perfect when we don't want to add the pano name, when we track a hotspot click (for instance a logo with a link to your homepage that is present in all panoramas in a tour, usualy it doesn't matter in what panorama the user clicked on it, just that he clicked)

This version is compatible with previous versions XML's, so you can just replace the old one :)

More to come soon, I had a request for a v1.4.1 already LOL ;)
[UPDATE]

jordi
10-26-2009, 07:29 AM
Hi Paulo !

I'm very happy with your update , this is one of my favourite pluguins, which I think gives us priceless information about the user behaviour.

I had already bought your pluguin few months ago, should I wait a bit to recive the new version, or there's some link to download it..

Thanks

PauloGGPX
10-26-2009, 09:06 PM
Hi Jordi,

as allways I sent the update to all the users that bought it by email.
It's strange that you didn't received it, I'll check what happened, in the meantime send me the email you used to make the payment and the email you want to receive the update (by PM or to my email) and I'll send it ASAP ;)

jordi
10-27-2009, 07:40 AM
Ei Paulo !

sorry I did recive it, but as it was in september I though it was an earlier update... I have it and it's great ;)

PauloGGPX
10-27-2009, 10:19 AM
Thanks Jordi,
yes I took some time to make the update public, I've been extremely busy.

As soon as I have time (next week maybe) I'll update it to v1.4.1.
I had a request to add a "inverted" manual mode ;)
I'll add more details later :)

thanks :)