I want to create event to track form input in my website form. For example someone types in name section, phone sectio or email I want to see that as event in my GA4 account. But I couldn't manage to create triger and event from tag manager. Any tips guys?
I created additional variables threw tag manager. But couldn't create trigger.
GTM's best practices advice not to do so-called DOM scraping. The proper solution here would be you asking your front-end developers to push dataLayer events for which you would be listening from GTM. This way, when things change on the front-end, the developers can effortlessly move the tracking to a new form, or a new field.
In some cases, inferior tracking methods must be used, however. In this case, you would want to deploy a custom HTML, which would be a <script> tag in your DOM deploying event listeners on form field interactions. The callbacks of the listeners would deploy dataLayer events with payloads containing whatever else you need to know about the interactions.
After you deploy the listeners and confirm that the callbacks work as you want, you make custom event triggers, indicating your event names from the dataLayer pushes. You can make dataLayer Variables to declare used datapoints in the DL events and use the new variables in your tags.
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Bear with me, because I'm relatively new to using GA and the people who set it up have either left or don't know how to use it. So there could be a deeper problem...
I'm trying to add an event via GTM, but it doesn't appear in my event list on GA. Everything, so far as I can tell, is set up correctly.
Do events not appear until they've been triggered? The product gets deployed to customers on a set-basis so there'll be a delay before the trigger is in the product
I chose the trigger as Click Classes and just added a class to the button. Is this enough to trigger the event?
Generally, you set up event tags in GTM that fires after a condition (like your Click Class) is triggered. Only after then, the event will get sent to Google Analytics and appear in your Events and Realtime reports.
I have a question about prism. I have the main app with ViewModel and a module with business logic. I have set up events in the module for properties that I want to be updated in the main apps ViewModel. On ViewModel load, I subscribe to all the events that are in the Module. I want to get those initial values of the in those properties when they got published on the Module Initialization but I am not sure how to do that. Could someone help me understand how it's supposed to be done?
You cannot receive events that were published before you subscribed. But you should have a service that provides the current values, anyway, so just inject it into the view model and get the initial values from there.
We have just purchased a licence for fineuploader and it works great.
However, the documentation, after basic setup is rather confusing.
We are trying to handle the validate event but cant find any information about what the event data is such as valid extension etc and how we can inform users about any errors happening in the validation phase.
Would appreciate any assistance
The validate event is documented in quite a bit of detail in the events documentation at http://docs.fineuploader.com/api/events.html#validate.
As the validation documentation says, you can use the validate event to enforce your own custom rules. You are given the name and size of the file in your callback handler. If you need access to more information (such as the actual file), you can declare a submit event callback handler instead. When submit is called, an ID is available for the file, and you can address it using any of the other API methods that require a file ID.
If you only need to validate based on file extension, use the built in validation for that. See the validation config options for more details.
You can display a message to the user however you see fit. The onError callback will be invoked on a validation error. If you are using Fine Uploader UI, the showMessage function will also be invoked with the error message.
Please have a close look at the portions of the documentation linked to above, as well as the live demo that includes validation on the home page.
I have a custom panel with a couple of components, eg. a button and a text box.
Once the button is clicked I would like custom panel that is also the parent panel receives the event and decides what to do, like call setText on the textbox.
Is it possible to achieve this using an eventbus ?
This means that the child components need not handle their event and then relay it.
I don't know the exact classes and how they work together. But sure you could use the GWT EventBus to achieve this. Fire an event in your button class and handle this event in your custom panel. You can google or find related answers here on stackoverflow.
I think this answer will help you: How to use the GWT EventBus
It's pretty simple to fire events and handle this events in other classes in your application.
I'm very excited about GTM introducing the Event Listener tag options, and have used them with success on some websites. With several of my company's clients, however, I am having this strange issue.
I can see, using the debugger software that the Link Click Listener tag is firing, and I can see that the Record Event tag is firing. However the Events never show up in Analytics.
Any advice?
Thanks in advance!
Becky
Even with the Link Click Listener and the Event Listener firing, you still need to add an additional Google Analytics tag OR Universal Analytics tag to utilize them within GTM. Remember, the only thing the listeners do is create new dataLayers for you to use.
To make events work in Analytics, add a NEW Google Analytics (or UA) tag to GTM.
Select the Track type as 'Event'
Category: Whatever you'd like the category to be (you can use macros here as well)
Action: Whatever the action is, download, click, etc. (macros are helpful here too!)
Label: Whatever you'd like it to be.
The key here is how you setup the rules. Your {{event}} needs to utilize the dataLayer - gtm.click, then you need to specify an element you'd like to track.
For a fantastic tutorial, I recommend - http://cutroni.com/blog/2013/10/07/auto-event-tracking-with-google-tag-manager/