In the last chapter, we learned about changes we could make to Piwik's JavaScript code or the HTML of our web pages to manually trigger page views, link clicks, or download actions. There may be times that you have to do this with your conversions. In fact, many types of goals may have to be manually triggered, because there is just no other way to do it. Some of these cases are:
When a visitor submits a contact form
When a visitor comments on a blog
When a visitor plays an embedded movie
When a visitor plays a game
When a visitor has stayed on site for a given period of time
In each of these cases, a conversion will never be logged by using any of the standard rules that we set up to trigger a goal. There is no page title to match, no file to download, and no outbound link to click. We will have to trigger the conversion ourselves.
We are going to create a goal now that will be triggered manually, so go back to the Goals tab on Piwik's main menu and we will get...