UX: when you apply a segment within the goal report, it goes back to default report channel type

[Chardonneaur]

Hi Team,

When you visit the goal report page: https://demo.matomo.cloud/index.php?module=CoreHome&action=index&idSite=1&period=day&date=yesterday#?idSite=1&period=day&date=yesterday&segment=visitConvertedGoalId%3D%3D7&category=Goals_Goals&subcategory=General_Overview.
If you click on any reports: Search engines, Page URLs, Country, and then you select segment... then it goes back on the Channel Type report.
That's non logic.
Normally you should stick on the report you previously selected.

[sgiehl]

This is caused by the way our report pages are built / rendered. When a segment or date is changed it triggers the whole reporting page to reload. The reporting page can contain various widgets, but might also call middleware API to check which widgets to display. Afterwards those widgets are loaded with the current data.

To realize the requested behavior we would need to change how the flow currently works. For pages that contain fixed widgets, that might be easily doable, as we could only trigger a refresh of a widget. But as soon as some middleware is involved, that becomes more complicated.

Rewriting how the report page loading is organized might be a bit more effort.