Migrating to Dynamic Tag Management

Hi Manuel, 

On the blog of Satellite TMS you find a great article about it: http://www.searchdiscovery.com/satellite/blog/adobe-sitecatalyst-migration-paths-with-satellite/

Cheers,

Harry

Hi Harry,

Many thanks for the tip. The article is great, the problem is me :)

Anyway, I have set up Dynamic Tag Manager, added Analytics, created a data element, and created a very simple page load rule that populates a prop.

The data element is fine (I checked by getVar), the rule fires, but the prop does not get populated for some reason (does not even appear in DigitalPulse)

What could the reason be?

Cheers,

Manuel

Hi Manuel,

You're further with DTM than I am; I just read a lot about it and did some homework.  Have to wait till January (sigh). But just to be sure: did you set a prop in Omniture for it? Or was it an existing one?

Thanks,

Harry

Make sure that you are setting the prop to fire in your page load rule:

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If that is configured ok, can you show us how you are populating your data element? I'd suggest setting the data element to something simple (like document.title) as a test:

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Hi Manuel - 

If you are populating your prop by JavaScript in DTM, be sure and use the entire DOM path in your variable assignment.  Eg:
window.s.prop3 = "prop.name";

If you are assigning your prop in the Adobe Analytics setup, make sure you add the prop before you save the setup.  I have had clients that use the drop downs, but not add setup.

wes

Hi Wes,

Many thanks for replying, I am actually assigning my prop via Adobe Analytics setup and well, when I get out and in of the page load rule, the drop down and box is still there retaining the values, so I guess it is saved.

Manuel

Hi Jacob,

I have created the data element you suggest:

[img]dataelement.png[/img]

but for some reason it does not come up via satellite debugger:

Hi Harry,

I haven't actually tagged anything yet, so not much further ahead :)

I was using an existing prop, but an empty one, copied from an older report suite, however I have just set a new one only for DTM but it has not worked either.

Cheers,

Manuel

Will you verify that this data element change is published, or check that you are loading the staging version of the js file? After you define the title data element, the following code should always return a value (at least an empty string) even if it isn't used in any rules yet:

_satellite.getDataElement('title')

It appears to me that you have configured everything correctly.