I'm stuck with setting up correctly FB pixel code, events like page view and content view work fine, but seems I missing something with tracking button clicks like "AdToCart" or "InitiateCheckout" events. Tried to play with a code, but didn't figure out it.
Here is the original code I tried to implement from Facebook for Add to Cart event.
<script>
<button id="button add-to-cart-button">AddtoCart</button>
<script type="text/javascript">
$('#addToCartButton').click(function() {
fbq('track', 'AddToCart', {currency: "EUR", value: {{ option.price }}});
});
</script>
What am I doing wrong?
First, you cannot have multiple ids to one element. The id is unique, so id="add-to-cart-button"
Second, the id is 'add-to-cart-button', so the jquery selector should match that: #add-to-cart-button not #addToCartButton
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I have a R Shiny app that I have connected to Google Analytics using Google Tag Manager (R Shiny app means AJAX website). I am currently tracking the standard stuff like PageViews, and have set up a tag to track which Tab a user clicks on (Using Click Element).
In most tabs, I have a drop-down menu/list (can be seen in the picture). When clicking on this list to select/change the input, the click element does not fire. So clicking does not work here.
In the same picture, I have included the source html code. I highlighted what I think is important. The default input is "Age Group (Discrete)." The "option value=" and "selected" changes the input (changed to "Pyramid (Discrete)"). And it also changes in the div class="item" data-value=..." line.
I do not know how to capture when a user changes the input using Google Tag Manager. I am however able to successfully track this if I put this GA code in my JavaScript file.
$(document).on('change', 'select', function(e) {
ga('send', 'event', 'widget', 'select data', $(e.currentTarget).val());
});
But the above only works if I also have this included:
ga('create', 'UA-######', 'auto');
ga('send', 'pageview');
Which means it is double-counting pageviews (tracking page-views on GTM and the GA code above).
I prefer to track what I want using just GTM. Any help would be appreciated. Let me know if the image is hard to see (May need to zoom in). Thanks
one possible solutions is using GTM custom events:
1) adjust your code to trigger custom event instead of sending GA event:
$(document).on('change', 'select', function(e) {
dataLayer.push({
'event': 'widget data selected',
'selected_value': $(e.currentTarget).val()
});
});
This will trigger specific widget data selected select that can be catched with Custom Event Trigger. Then just use that trigger for your regular Analytics Event GTM tag.
Additionally, you might set up user-defined Data Layer variable to read the selected option value from dataLayer and use it in your tag.
I have a tag that sends purchase event to Facebook that looks like this:
<script>
fbq('track', 'Purchase', {
value: {{reservationValue}},
currency: 'ILS',
});
</script>
The reservationValue is a variable that the GTM gets from the page before the tag is fired.
For some reason, when i'm using the preview mode, I see that the HTML code that is sent to Facebook is:
<script type="text/gtmscript">fbq("track","Purchase",
{value:google_tag_manager["GTM-XXXXXXX"].macro(2459),currency:"ILS"});</script>
screenshot here
The same variable is used to send value of purchase to AdWords and when I preview the AdWords tag, the value is passing as it should.
I did Tag Sequencing and fired the pageview Facebook pixel before the purchase tag.
Any suggestions?
Thanks
I think this is normal behaviour because the syntax of GTM variables with the double curly brackets is the GTMs own syntax. what you saw there happens to every GTM variable. The GTM variables get "translated" to regular javascript again.
If you open the console within a browser and type in "google_tag_manager["GTM-yourContaienrId"].macro(2459)" you should be able to se the value assuming the Tag has been fired of course. You could also console.log the variable to see if it is being filled correctly.
The reason why you didn't see that behaviour on the AdWords tag is probably because it is a "native" tag type in the GTM and the other one is just plain html.
Change into:
<script>
fbq('track', 'Purchase', {
value: '{{reservationValue}}',
currency: 'ILS',
});
</script>
I am using javascript and I need to display an alert only once when the user click anywhere in the site. But make sure it will not pop up everytime the user click anywhere.
Im not professional but I need this code to embed in my e-commerce site. I have tried a regular onload alert. but it will show once the page is loaded. then i tried this automatic code:
</html>
<head>
<script language="JavaScript">
<!--
document.onclick = myClickHandler;
function myClickHandler() {
alert("All orders require minimum two weeks notice due to the nature of event and wedding products");
}
-->
</script>
</head>
<body>
</html>
and works, but every time I click appear and that is annoying. I need a onclick event, anywhere in the page... to display an alert only once. to advise the user about important info.
Desperatly need some solution. Thanks
$(function () {
$(document).on('click.once', function () {
alert("Alerted once");
$(document).off('click.once');
})
});
This makes use of the .off() and named event feature in jQuery.
.off feature
event namespaces
I have a banner on my sites home page, It has multiple links and the html code is written within tag and does not contains any anchor links, instead it has a href link only.
My IT heads says its not possible to embedd a onclick event tracking code to track all the links.
Please let me know how will i track this?
A pure unobtrusive javascript solution (derived from Googles example, working but not necessarily the most complete or beatiful code) :
function addListener(element, type, callback) {
if (element.addEventListener) element.addEventListener(type, callback);
else if (element.attachEvent) element.attachEvent('on' + type, callback);
}
links = document.getElementsByTagName('a');
for(i=0,cnt=links.length;i<cnt;i++) {
addListener(links[i], 'click', function() {
ga('send', 'event', 'button', 'click', 'nav-buttons');
});
}
If you put that in an external js file or an inline script it will "decorate" all links in the page (you would need a more specific selector instead of "all links") with a click event that fire google event tracking when somebody clicks the link. No embedded click code in the link tags necessary (that's bad practice in any case).
If you are already using jQuery (since that's probably the most popular javascript library) you can simply do
$( "a" ).click(function() {
ga('send', 'event', 'button', 'click', 'nav-buttons');
});
(again, choose a more specific selecor).
Both examples assume Universal Analytics, for classic you'd need to change the event tracking code (see DalmTos answer for examples).
The following examples will depend on if you are running classic VS universal analytics.
For Classic Analtyics look for ga.js in your tracking code:
Play
For Universal Analytics look for Analtyics.js in your tracking code:
Play
I don't see any reason why you wouldn't be able to track it in your banner.
I am trying to refresh a sidebar.php in wordpress on a form submit (that is in a widget on the sidebar.php).
I have video on the page and if the entire page refreshes, the video has to play from the beginning.
I need a solution to simply refresh the sidebar.php when someone submits the form ... I am not an expert php programmer so simple is best!
btw. I am using formidable plugin for the form.
thanks in advance!
Sounds like a job for ajax!
Now, you could do it from scratch, but that would be unnecessarily painful. Instead, I recommend including jquery into your page by adding this into your header
<script type="text/javascript" src="http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.5.1/jquery.min.js"></script>
(which uses the latest version, which is hosted on google)
Now that you have jquery loaded, there are many easy ways to submit your data without interrupting the flow of things. Here is how I would do it (I am assuming that you are using method="post"):
Change your <input type="submit" > into a <button>, so clicking on it doesn't trigger the built-in form submit (which would interrupt your video).
Set the id attribute of your button to something so that you can reference it easily like <button id="mysubmitbutton">. (While you are at it, give id attributes to all the form fields you care about if you have not already so that you can reference them easily as well, like <input type="text" name="firstName" id="firstName"> instead of just <input type="text" name="firstName">)
Inside the <head> portion of your website, add some code that looks like something like this:
<script type="text/javascript">
//makes it so that it goes after the html document is ready for it
$(document).ready(function() {
//this ties a onclick event to your button you made
$("#mysubmitbutton").click(function(){
//when the button is clicked, it will asychronously post to where you want it to
$.post("urlthatwasinyouractionequalsattribute.php",
{
//put all your post variables here, referencing the ids you made earlier
firstName: $("#firstName").val(),
time: $("#time").val() //be sure you don't have a trailing comma on the last one
},
function(data) {
//data is whatever the other website sends back. do whatever you want here...
alert("Result: " + data);
});
});
});
</script>
Fire it up and it should work. Obviously, you will need to change the values so that it matches your form, etc.
Hope that helps! Please mark as answer if it did.