Testing >5 Offers Using STM Tracker (4)
Question: Is there a way to rotate more than 5 offers using the STM tracker?
I was trying to eliminated the offers that did not convert the best. At first I thought that removing the offers from the tracker and substituting them with new offers would work, but immediately found that to be a big nono. Let's say I originally had offers #1 to 5 in rotation, I removed #5 and put a new offer #6 in its place. The tracker would show accumulated stats for both offers #5 and #6 as ONE set of stats - e.g. let's say offer #5 had 50 leads, when #6 has made 1 lead, the lead count shown would become 51.
It would seem that once an offer has been entered into rotation for a campaign, the only way to remove it from rotation is to set its weight to zero. And I'm not allowed to put a new offer in its place either.
Up til now, my workaround has been to just create another campaign in the tracker to accommodate the new offer(s) + the original best-converting offer(s), and then set up a corresponding new campaign at my traffic source. But this creates a lot of extra hassle as I'm having to assemble 2 sets of data when doing any sort of analysis (e.g. when looking at the performance of a banner, I'd have to look at stats from new and old campaigns, etc. etc.).
Now I've just outgrown my second set of 5 rotation spots. Should I set up a third campaign to accommodate the extra offers or is there a better way? I hope so, or else I'd have to pull my hair out from having to combine 3 sets of stats! 
Thanks for any help you guys can provide - and please let me know if I'm being confusing!
Amy
This is a limitation for the tracker - since it's a modified tracking202 there are some things that haven't yet been versioned in.
However, note that there is a certain part of the 202-config file that may help - not sure if it has to be changed before install or also affects everything later (Bes?).
In 202-config.php:
define('URL_ROTATE_ENABLED', true);
define('MAX_ROTATE_URLS_COUNT', 5);
Changing the last value may help?
A brief bit of Grepping shows that changing that will affect the number of offers that the tracker checks for - however, it won't affect the HTML for the Rotate Offerss page, so you'd have to add the additional offers directly into the database using the command line, PHPMyAdmin, or similar.
If you did that, though, it should work.
Thanks zeno and caurmen! 
I don't know if I'll be bold enough to touch the coding, because I'm a bit afraid that I would break something else and mess up the whole stats system. I may just end up setting up a third set of campaigns instead. But if I can talk myself into changing the code as per your suggestions I'll update the thread with results.
Thanks again - your help is much appreciated!
Amy
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