I have an issue where I am trying to track the filedownloads on a website trough Google Tag Manager events. What I am doing is and already done on many websites is to find out if the "Click Url" contains any of the filetypes I am looking for like pdf, docx and so on. The issue here is that the Click Urls does not contain the information and are ending with .aspx. What is the best method to solve this issue?
I'd rephrase the question: what do these links (elements) have in common, that point to various downloadable files, and that is different from anything else, what is not a download link. This can be referred in GTM as a trigger.
Consider the following example:
<a class="button file_download" id="file_link_12" href="index.aspx?action=download&file_id=12">Download file</a>
If any of these can be identified in your HTML source code, then you can use these as triggers, which describes your elements used to point to downloadable files, e.g.:
Click Classes contains file_download
Click ID contains file_link
Click text equals Download file
Click URL contains action=download
If you are able to alter the HTML code, than you can choose any of these methods above, that bests suits your needs.
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I have a very strange external links behavior on this page:
https://dev.switchonpaper.site/en/daniel-g-andujar-the-artist-as-a-thinker-and-augur-of-what-happens/
There is a list of external links visible by clicking on "Go Deeper".
On some links, the address of the current page is added at the beginning of the external link.
E.g.: iSAM™ (1997)
E.g.: TTTP Photo Collection - 1997
All external links are absolute links.
When you look at the source code, the links are correct.
This site runs under Wordpress, the links are contained in a Gutenberg block built with the ACF plugin.
I tested the following things:
Disable all plugins.
The browser or something else continues to add the current page address on some links only.
I emptied the server cache, removed all the .htaccess rules except the wordpress part.
I made sure that the PHP file that writes these links is in UTF-8.
By recreating the links, it is always the same ones who are affected.
Does anyone have any idea what could cause this?
Thank you for your time and help!
You have the so called "hidden characters" before your link start. I suggest you to check it by yourself with some online tool like this: https://www.soscisurvey.de/tools/view-chars.php. If you try to paste there the link copied by your source code you will see you have hidden stuff before "https:..."
The solution to this issue is that you delete all the characters and you write them all over again by yourself, w/o copy/pasting them from another source or in alternative paste them inside some non-HTML text editor before pasting them to your website
I'm programatically creating links to download files of different formats like .csv and .yml.
My code is
<a href="/organs/#organ/#policy/#folder.Name/#file.Name" download>#file.Name</a>
so lets say these links get created:
https://localhost:44372/organs/Heart-Lung/03-15-2020/data/fakedata.yml
https://localhost:44372/organs/Heart-Lung/03-15-2020/data/testdata.csv
the .csv works as it should, I click and it downloads. the .yml however opens a new web page at that link and then says that it can't be found
I'm really not sure what I'm doing wrong, is there a way force it to download or should I be doing this a different way?
I ended up using javascript to do this, based on https://wellsb.com/csharp/aspnet/blazor-jsinterop-save-file/
most of the code is the same, but I changed the link to this to pass in the variable and to keep it as a clickable link that doesn't go anywhere
<a href="javascript:void(0)" #onclick=#(() => DownloadFile(file.FullName))>#file.Name</a>
I've made an Add-on which is a custom field.
The style of the text in the field changes depending on the properties of an issue.
I check which style should the text have in the .java file and I pass the html class in a variable called $indicator to the velocity template:
#if( ${value} )
<span class="$indicator">${value}</span>
#end
It works perfect everywhere but in gadgets. When I add this field to a table showing issues in a dashboard, the html code is correct, but it doesn't find the css resource. This is because gadgets are inside an iframe.
How can I make the iframe have a reference to the stylesheet?
You did not say exactly which gadget you were using, but try adding the following context within your <web-resource> module:
<context>jira.webresources:issue-table</context>
The above should work for at least Assigned to Me, Filter Results, In Progress, Voted, and Watched in JIRA 6.1+.
If that does not work, you might also try:
<context>com.atlassian.jira.gadgets:common-lite</context>
If that general context doesn't work, you can look for which exact contexts are #requireContext'ed by the specific gadget you are trying to use, and then make sure that your web-resource is listed in that context. You can figure this out by looking at the gadget's XML and then searching for the #requireContext. (You can find the gadget XMLs inside $JIRA_DATA/plugins/.osgi-plugins/transformed-plugins/jira-gadgets-plugin-*.jar)
Starting with JIRA 7 the Answer of Scott Dudley is no longer working. #requireContext was replaced with a #requireResource within the Atlassian sources of this gadget.
As it affects our plugin, I created a Improvement Request to make that possible again
I know that I need to add the tracking code snippet at the bottom of all my pages, but is there a central location to do this?
Or do I need to add this tracking code to all of my templates?
I guess that I could wrap the snippet in a user control, or external .js file, and reference it on each page, but is there a global footer somewhere? The site I'm working on has about 30-40 layouts, and adding it to each one would be a pain!
Thanks in advance!
Actually, the role of a Sitecore layout is exactly this; to act as a global file that all individual page templates "derive" from.
Normally you'd stick the analytics code into the master layout, and use Sitecore sublayout/placeholder techniques to construct the various page templates you need. You would not normally need more than perhaps one or two layouts for any device you are serving content to. And I guess for most sites, the only device in use is regular web content delivery.
That being said, what you could do, is have all the layouts inherit their codebase from a common base class (inheriting from Page), and inject the google code centrally from here. Would still require you to go through all layout files however.
I have not tried the module, I think that is codebehind version. I have made this in XSLT, its pretty fast and easy to make. I have footer.xslt where I put the code that simply checks if page you are standing on uses template that I want to index and does not belong to page names that I want to exclude. Then I have an item with a custom template for Google Analytics with following memo fields.
IncludeTemplates -field contains list of templates that I want to include for analytics :
ExcludeItemsNames -field for excluding pages by item name
contains($includeTemplates, concat('|',./#template,'|')) and not(contains($excludeItemNames, concat('|',./#template,'|')))
Remember #key and #template is always in small letters
If you run many domains don't forget to add pageTracker._setDomainName("www.example.com"); in analytics script so you can separate sub-domains etc. if they use same footer.xslt
Normally we consider the actual Google code as content. Within Sitecore we normally have a settings folder, something like /sitecore/content/settings. This exists outside the root of the site. Beneath this have a settings item with a plain multi-line text field, I think the field type is memo or something similar.
Afterwards create an XSLT that renders out the content of this settings item. Something like (assuming the field is called value in the setting item):
<xsl:value-of select="sc:fld('Value','/sitecore/content/settings/footerJavaScript')" />
You may or may not need to set the disable-output-escaping attribute.
Then on the aspx page that your pages use as the template add a control that looks at the xslt rendering:
<sc:XslFile runat="server" Path="/xsl/footerJavaScript" />
The reason that we normally keep the javascript as content is this allows the client to change the analytics code without having to contact us.
I have a web page that displays a list of documents stored on the web site. I need to add a link next to each document that can e-mail it. By that I mean attach the entire document to the e-mail.
When clicking the e-mail link, a 'New Message' window needs to display with:
Subject line filled in with the title of the document (displayed on the web page)
Contents of the document downloaded from the web site and added as an attachment
The mail client is Outlook. The server is SharePoint (ASP.NET) which contains web services that are able to download files. JavaScript and any JS library is available for use. I'm not able to deploy additional software to the client.
What are my options and are there any references that achieve this type of functionality?
An alternative might be to put a link in the body of the message to a place where the file can be downloaded. You could even make it a web page that deletes the file after a set time or number of downloads. To be safe you would need to use "mailto:someone#somewhere.com&subject=somesubject&body="+System.Web.HttpUtility.UrlEncode(bodyStringToEncode) to generate an html safe llink
Even with the above answer about launching an email using office automation, you'd still need to first have the file sent to the client, saved in a name and location known to the server, in order to attach the file.
I can't think of a way to attach the document but you can have a link to fill in the subject and body of an email in which you could add a link to the online document.
<a href="mailto:test#test.com?subject=
[your_subject]&body=[url_encoded_content_string]">New Message</a>
You can use this function to urlencode your body text http://phpjs.org/functions/urlencode
Hope that helps,
Josh
Using the HREF mailto, you can make outlook open with the subject at least. I don't know any way to set the body nor an attachment.
From javascript there's no way to automate Outlook using OLE.
example
Taken from:
http://www.angelfire.com/dc/html-webmaster/mailto.htm