Recently Viewed products issue in Magento V2.1.3

Question

Today I configured the Recently Viewed products in my local website, It is showing When Customer Login in front store otherwise it's not showing.

Is it Customer Session based or It will shown every Customer (Guest, General..etc)?

I want to show Recently Viewed products to everyone how can I configure this?

Any help?

Answer 1

Lets take an example for homepage. if you want to show "Recently Viewed Products" on your homepage follow below steps :

1. Login to your admin panel

2. Click on content - > Blocks - > Find Homepage Block

3. Click on Homepage Block and edit then toggle show/hide editor , You will see insert widget option there

4. Click on insert widget select "Recently Viewed Products" from dropdown , add number of product to display (ex - 5)

5. Select template from dropdown then click on insert widget

6. Click on save Block then go to the front side on homepage . View any product
7. Back to the homepage you will see "Recently Viewed Product" over there.

Answer 2

Recently viewed products shows visited products by one single visitor. Yes, it is bind by each visitor. If you made it work for all users without changing any code, most likely it is false. The block you say you added on homepage may be full page cached and homepage may look the same for all users.

I guess you could try to make a plugin on function Magento\Reports\Controller\Adminhtml\Report\Product\Viewed::getItemsCollection() This function has this:

if ($this->getCustomerId()) {
  $this->_collection->setCustomerId($this->getCustomerId());
}

You could try to setCustomerId(null) on recently viewed block.

Or create your block and inherit from Magento\Reports\Controller\Adminhtml\Report\Product\Viewed class or just from class Magento\Reports\Block\Product\AbstractProduct.

If your block gets cached in full page cache type, than it's another issue but can be done.