What ONE extension (that currently doesn't exist) do you wish we had?

[Clint]

It can be an Extension that doesn't exist at all, or one that you've created using the custom JavaScript extension

[joseph_brown]

Sorry to go against the "ONE" criteria but I am going to name two. 1) An extension to assist in content modification testing preferably leveraging the multi-armed bandit theory (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multi-armed_bandit). There is also a blog post with some js code that claims to do this (http://stevehanov.ca/blog/index.php?id=132) 2) An extension to easily loop through a flattened JSON object and place values into a delimited list. Lincoln has its own data object that looks like this: {"page": {"wlpdesktop":"Consumer", "wlppagelabel":"P12400299741316786111396", "breadcrumb":"Home|Resource Center", "l1":"LFG"}, "events":[], "portlets":[ {"id":"portlet_HUB002543", "type":"content", "manifestId":"HUB002543", "contentIds":"HUB_000725"}, {"id":"portlet_HUB006602", "type":"content", "manifestId":"HUB006602", "contentIds":"HUB006601"}, {"id":"portlet_HUB002554", "type":"content", "manifestId":"HUB002554", "contentIds":"HUB002349,HUB002350,HUB002351,HUB002352"}, {"id":"portlet_HUB002907", "type":"content", "manifestId":"HUB002907", "contentIds":"HUB_000731"}, {"id":"portlet_HUB002539", "type":"content", "manifestId":"HUB002539", "contentIds":"HUB_000730,HUB002001,HUB002002,HUB007801,HUB002003,HUB002004,HUB002005"} ]} When flattened the portlets piece looks something like this. portlets.array-size=5 portlets0.contentIds="HUB_000725" portlets0.id="portlet_HUB002543" portlets0.manifestId="HUB002543" portlets0.type="content" portlets1.contentIds="HUB006601" portlets1.id="portlet_HUB006602" portlets1.manifestId="HUB006602" portlets1.type="content" portlets2.contentIds="HUB002349,HUB002350,HUB002351,HUB002352" portlets2.id="portlet_HUB002554" portlets2.manifestId="HUB002554" portlets2.type="content" portlets3.contentIds="HUB_000731" portlets3.id="portlet_HUB002907" portlets3.manifestId="HUB002907" portlets3.type="content" portlets4.contentIds="HUB_000730,HUB002001,HU...003,HUB002004,HUB002005" portlets4.id="portlet_HUB002539" portlets4.manifestId="HUB002539" portlets4.type="content" Our developers can move portlets around on the page very easily and a page could have any number of portlets. Currently we use the a javascript plugin that looks like this var contentIds=[]; for(var i=0; i<=b["portlets.array-size"]; i++) { var count=""; if(contentIds){ try{count = b["portlets"+i+".contentIds"];}catch(e){} } if(typeof count!="undefined" && count != ""){ contentIds.push(count); } } b["portlets.contentIds"]=contentIds.join(","); This effectively grabs all the portlet contentIds and joins them in a list delimited by comma so I can pass them into an Omniture list prop.

[Clint]

If anyone was going to break the "One" rule, it would be you Joe ;-). Love both of these. Can't promise anything but am ever curious about where the gaps are.

[Clint]

Joe, (showing my lack of knowledge here...they tell me it's the path to wisdom) is the multi-armed bandit problem not something that's supposed to be addressed by MVT?

[joseph_brown]

It is a little different then mvt. I can send you some more info. I heard a Wharton professor speak about it at a daa event. I also thought of another nice extension. The ability to set an analytics account based on a variable value. Being able to control s_account or google analytics account based on a variable value would be nice. It would eliminate the need for multiple profiles that are just duplicates.

[norm_leitman]

I believe you can currently set a Google Analytics account based on a variable by mapping the variable to the Account (Override Default) field.

[joseph_brown]

Very nice. I was not aware of the override default field since we, Lincoln Financial, do not use GA and I was just using it as an example. I do not believe this capability exists for SiteCatalyst, but could be wrong.

[joseph_brown]

Okay I have another one. You will have to tell me if I could do this already via the lookup function but I do not believe I can. We have a breadcrumb on one of our sites that looks like this Home|Account Summary|Recent Activity|Contributions, "I" pipe delimited. Another one of our sites also has a breadcrumb however it is delimited by ">" with white space. Home > Account Summary > Recent Activity > Contributions. I pass the breadcrumb value into a tealium variable page.breadcrumb. It would be nice if I could do a find and replace for characters in a string. Look through the page.breadcrumb variable and find and replace all the > with "|". I am under the assumption that to use the look up extension I would have to lookup the entire string and replace the entire string.

[robert_alderson]

We use listeners/dispatchers a lot (see my comment https://community.tealiumiq.com/posts/537843-javascript-code-extension#comments It would be great to have a listener extension with the name of the listened variable and a text field for a custom callback method.

[Clint]

Robert, aren't the listeners and dispatchers by their very nature custom code? Not sure that I see a path to abstracting that in a useful way that works differently/better than the custom JavaScript extension.