Prefill reporter name & email on widget init

[viu-x]

It would be great to be able to prefill the reporter name and email address on widget initialization. I want to integrate it into my customer website frontends and only show the widget if a user is logged into the respective CMS backend. And because I have a logged in user at that point I would like to prefill the users information into the widget.

[ar4ntic]

This is actually a very good idea. We should be able to add it as a general widget initialization option, without requiring a CMS specific integration.

For the npm package, it could look like this:

BugPin.init({
  apiKey: '...',
  serverUrl: '...',
  reporterName: currentUser.name,
  reporterEmail: currentUser.email,
});

For the script integration, we could support the same values as attributes:

<script
  src="https://bugpin.example.com/widget.js"
  data-api-key="..."
  data-reporter-name="{{ currentUser.name }}"
  data-reporter-email="{{ currentUser.email }}">
</script>

The values would prefill the existing fields and remain editable. Your application would still decide whether the user is logged in and whether the widget should be loaded. Which integration are you currently using, the npm package or the script tag?

Also, can the logged in user change without a full page reload? If so, we would need a small runtime method such as:

BugPin.setReporter({
  name: currentUser.name,
  email: currentUser.email,
});

[viu-x]

In my use cases the user could not change. Currently I test the script tag implementation.

[ar4ntic]

@viu-x The feature is now implemented on Dev. Feel free to pull the image with the dev tag instead of latest and test it.

I have also added the feature to the <your-domain>/admin/test-widget page and tested it there. I would be happy to hear whether it works in your setup too.

[ar4ntic]

@viu-x Did you have time to test it already?

[viu-x]

@viu-x Did you have time to test it already?

Not yet. And might not get at it until next week.