Matomo 4.x support?

[ccc2lu]

We've been using the islandora_matomo plugin at Lehigh University for a year or so, and it's worked quite well. Our matomo instance is managed by our central IT group, and they are planning to upgrade to a Matomo 4.x release. The CustomDimensions module required by islandora_matomo requires a Piwik version (apparently the old name for Matomo) that is <4.0.0-b1. So CustomDimensions doesn't work yet in the new Matomo. Are there any plans to update this plugin to work with newer Matomo? Thanks!

[ccc2lu]

@noahwsmith @DiegoPino any thoughts on my question above? Thanks!

[noahwsmith]

Hi there. No, there is no plan to update this for Matomo 4.x because that key feature CustomDimensions is not supported by 4.x. My apologies, ~Noah

[noahwsmith]

Actually, on a closer read, CustomDimensions is now part of Matomo 4 core. It was Custom Variables that were deprecated entirely. So your request would be possible, but there are so few folks using Islandora 7 at the moment that it doesn't seem likely.

We will be working on an Islandora 2.0 version of this module soon which will use Matomo 4. Presumably back-porting the matomo side of that work could be a lesser lift in the future, if it is still needed. I'll post a link when that work is eventually done...