Enhanced marketer testing experience with 2 small additions

Ideas and Feature Requests
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My idea is:

  1. Add option to test email opens right from the contact timeline.
  2. Show some kind of overlay on tracked pages if the person who views it is a Mautic admin

I think these groups of people would benefit from this idea:
Marketers, especially first time users of Mautic who don’t EXACTLY KNOW how Mautic works.

Why I think they would benefit from this idea:
If you don’t know how Mautic works if you are a Mautic admin in the same browser, you might think tracking is not working properly. Same with using a web based email tool. You might not know that your email opens are not registered. It is pretty time consuming to test a campaign if it relies on opens and you have to jump between windows.

Any code or resources to support this idea:

Are you willing to work on this idea?

Yes, see the PR above (it is for M5, but can be rebased on M7) if it gains tracktion.

What skills and resources do you need to explore this further?

I need the opinion of the community.

Here is a bit broader description. This PR adds 2 things:

  1. Test Email Open button in the contact timeline:

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Once you click on it, you’ll see a confirmation window:

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If you click on YES, the event registers, like a person would have opened the email. Test event is recorded, and the campaign check for email open passes:

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This allows you to test a campaign properly WITHOUT need to juggle with multiple browser windows and sessions.

  1. Overlay is displayed if you are a Mautic admin with the same session. A little warning, that your actions won’t be tracked. It looks like this:

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Any comment and suggestion is appreciated.

Joey