Below url is used for fetching analytics data related to firebase dynamic links:
https://firebasedynamiclinks.googleapis.com/v1/SHORT_DYNAMIC_LINK/linkStats?durationDays=DURATION
(Please note that the above url is an API that needs authentication/token. You can't open it in a browser. Also, SHORT_DYNAMIC_LINK and DURATION are just placeholders not actual parameter values.
The reason I have added a link is because my question is about the value of the placeholder - DURATION present in the link)
DURATION tells how many days(going backwards) worth data needs to be fetched.
My requirement is to fetch data from the start(when the dynamic link was created). So, what value should I set for durationDays to achieve that?
As a workaround I can set a big number(like 1000 days) but wanted to know a proper way.
Based on what I tried, the parameter durationDays must be present in the url, otherwise the request would return 400 INVALID ARGUMENT. Even setting DURATION values to 0 or -1 return a similar error.
Firebase Analytics API Doc: https://firebase.google.com/docs/reference/dynamic-links/analytics
Related
I would like to understand better Firebase Dynamic Links because i am very new to this subject.
What i would like to know :
FirebaseDynamicLinks.instance.getInitialLink() is supposed to return "only" the last dynamic link created with the "initial" url (before it was shorten) ?
Or why FirebaseDynamicLinks.instance.getInitialLink() doesn't take a String url as a parameter ?
FirebaseDynamicLinks.instance.getDynamicLink(String url) doesn't read custom parameters if the url was shorten, so how can we retrieve custom parameters from a shorten link ?
My use case is quite simple, i am trying to share an object through messages in my application, so i want to save the dynamic link in my database and be able to read it to run a query according to specific parameters.
FirebaseDynamicLinks.instance.getInitialLink() returns the link that opened the app and if the app was not opened by a dynamic link, then it will return null.
Future<PendingDynamicLinkData?> getInitialLink()
Attempts to retrieve the dynamic link which launched the app.
This method always returns a Future. That Future completes to null if
there is no pending dynamic link or any call to this method after the
the first attempt.
https://pub.dev/documentation/firebase_dynamic_links/latest/firebase_dynamic_links/FirebaseDynamicLinks/getInitialLink.html
FirebaseDynamicLinks.instance.getInitialLink() does not accept a string url as parameter because it is just meant to return the link that opened the app.
Looks like there's no straightforward answer to getting the query parameters back from a shortened link. Take a look at this discussion to see if any of the workarounds fit your use case.
I have set up goal to URL destination: '/pageview.html'.
If I execute below URL on my universal analytic page views will increase by 1 (which is correct). Also my goal will increase by 1 (which is also correct).
Link 1 example
http://www.google-analytics.com/collect?v=1&tid=UA-XXXXXX-4&cid=987987987&t=pageview&sr=-&sd=-&ul=-&je=0&fl=-&dt=%2Fphonecallleads.html&dh=www.wednesday.co.uk&dr=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.wednesday.co.uk%2Fbla%3Fhehe%3Dvisitor&dp=/phonecallleads.html&z=321321321
How ever if I execute the same link again but with different number in 'z' parameter to prevent caching on my analytic page views will increase by 1 (which is correct) but my goal will not increase... Why is my goal not increasing ?
Link example 2 witch different 'z' parameter
http://www.google-analytics.com/collect?v=1&tid=UA-XXXXXX-4&cid=987987987&t=pageview&sr=-&sd=-&ul=-&je=0&fl=-&dt=%2Fphonecallleads.html&dh=www.wednesday.co.uk&dr=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.wednesday.co.uk%2Fbla%3Fhehe%3Dvisitor&dp=/phonecallleads.html&z=654654654
Thank you Eike Pierstorff.
The issue was that UA counts goals only once per session.
To resolve that issue I have added an extra parameter to the URL - Session control which starts new session once request is submitted.
&sc=start
I am in the process of setting up enhanced Ecommerce for GA and have had a few requests of additional of what else the client would like to see in their reports. Once of which is
"Where can i see a report if the locations that a use types in when they use the store locator"
There is already an internal search functionality thats been set up and is tracking the search terms people are typing when looking for products, but i'm not sure if i would need to set this up as a second search terms report or if it's something different?
The URL of the page is different to the internal search results and is www.domain.com/store-locator#wales|GB|0|0|0
Any insight into this would be really helpful.
Thanks,
Roxi
As to me knowledge, you are not able to use bookmarks (#something) in GA for internal site search setup. Only GET and POST parameters are allowed. In your situation I think the best solution is to use GA events to send the data about used location each time the user is using this functionality. You need to include addition ga() function call to track those events. Info about how to set it up you could find here: event tracking. After setting things up, you will see all the info about number and type of called events in Behavior -> Events reports section in GA.
Example code:
<button onlick="var hash_location=window.location.hash;ga('send','event','Locator',has_location)">Click me</button>
With such function new event will be send to GA with Event Category=Locator and Event Action=hash in the url. You have some complicated hash, so most probably you need to extract first some info from this using regular expression. Example to get first item from |-separated list in the hash:
var pattern = new RegExp('[^#|]+');
var hash_location = pattern.exec(window.location.hash)[0];
I have not seen any discussion or awareness so far that Firebase does in fact make available a unique identifier--in fact the full URL--to each specific data record via their "snapshot" which they return, i.e. the wrapper around the data record (accessed via snapshot.val()). By doing a basic property examination of the snapshot I discovered that the unique URL is available (see examples below). However, it seems that, for some reason, Firebase keeps changing the name of the key every few days, causing my application to break. I have to go in and re-discover the new URL property key and change it so that it will work again.
Here are three examples of how I have seen the key change so far. Each value is the same, but the key keeps changing over time (i.e.: "Wb", "Xb", "bc").:
getMemberBySnapshot - snapshot has prop Wb with value https://prototype1.firebaseio.com/users/-IwohKfw1l5F3gFqyJJ5
getMemberBySnapshot - snapshot has prop Xb with value https://prototype1.firebaseio.com/users/-IwohKfw1l5F3gFqyJJ5
getMemberBySnapshot - snapshot has prop bc with value https://prototype1.firebaseio.com/users/-IwohKfw1l5F3gFqyJJ5
I have read Firebase's suggestions that developers should use an email address if they want a unique key (what if my model does not use an email field? What if a user wants to change their email?), or Firebase suggests altenatively to retrieve all existing records and then search through them on the client. Neither of these solutions are satisfying. But I'm seeing that they do provide the unique URL to each data record in the 'snapshot'. Why do they not provide a stabilized key so that a developer can call it consistently???
Firebase.js is a compiled script. The names of internal variables will change every time we compile it and release a new version, so you should definitely not be relying on any properties that are not documented on our website.
For your specific case, you should be using:
snapshot.ref().toString()
in order to get the URL.
The situation
I'd like to use GA to track some serverside operations. That's why I cant make use of the GA JavaScript functions. But, as you might know, you can request the utm.gif right from your server. This already works fine.
The Problem
I'd like to trackt custom parameters. But I have no idea how to add them in the right format to the url-request
This one should do the custom parms. But I didn't get any results in GA.
utme=5(Init*load_success*http://www.mydomain.de)8(userstatus)9(fan)11(2)
Full list of params:
ref ts
utmac UA-XXXXXX-5
utmcc __utma=186215409.1789216404.1265552708.1280074861.1280493144.21;+__utmz=;
utmcs ISO-8859-1
utmdt Button
utme 5(Init*load_success*http://www.mydomain.de)8(mycustomvar)9(mycustomvalue)11(2)
utmfl -
utmhn mydomain.de
utmje -
utmn 1114675642
utmp button
utmr http://www.mydomain.de
utmsc -
utmsr -
utmul de-de
utmwv 4.5.7
not sure what's going wrong, given what you posted, but how about you write out what you want to send the traditional way (with javascript) and put it on a test page. Use firebug or whatever to grab the requested url that's built and compare it to what you have now.
The value of the utme gif Request parameter is encoded by ga.js--it's the only one that is, as far as i know.
Calling __trackEvent is the usual way to set the value of utme. These are client-side events though, which is no doubt why you are trying to set utme directly.
So if you just want to bind 5(Initload_successhttp://www.mydomain.de)8(userstatus)9(fan)11(2) to the variable utme, and you can't rely on user-behavior to trigger that binding, then here's what i suggest:
Pack your data into a 'custom variable' scoped to the page--this way, when the __trackPageview() is called, the value will be set.
Here's the analytics code required in your HTML to implement that:
The method signature for a custom variable:
pageTracker._setCustomVar(slot, // integer between 1 and 5, inclusive (just use '1')
name, // user-defined name for the custom variable
value, // string representing the value for the custom variable
scope, // you want '3' for page-level (an int, not a string though)
);
Within the HTML (order matter, of course):
pageTracker.__setCustomvar(1, "A Name", "A Value", 3);
pageTracker.__trackPageview();
A key point here is that the parameter 'value' can be set dynamically, so for the 'value' parameter, i guess you want to pass in 5(Initload_successhttp://www.mydomain.de)8(userstatus)9(fan)11(2)
Finally, here are the two key sources (Implementation Guide, Usage Guide) on Custom Variables from the GA Team