User's Recently Viewed Items (Custom Module)

Is there an easy way using Sitefinity Personalisation features to show a user their recently viewed items in a Custom Module?  I've seen this on lots of sites and I think it's useful.

Hello,

There is no out of the box mechanism that achieves this behavior.

One approach of achieving this behavior would be to create a short text field for the user profiles, to hold the IDs of the last three viewed items (or more). Then you can use the API to update that field when an item is viewed.

The last step would be to create a custom widget that queries the field, splits it into the three IDs, queries the items and displays them in a list.

Regards,
Velizar Bishurov
Telerik

I was hoping to achieve this for guests of the site - non-users.  So I guess I would need to store the id numbers in a cookie?

Hello,

Indeed in this case probably the best option would be to use a cookie.

Regards,
Velizar Bishurov
Telerik