Reference direct call rule name in Adobe Analytics

[KRAZ]

Hi all,

Is there a possibility to reference the direct call rule name in the Adobe Analytics section e.g. as eVar. Imagine the following scenario:

I have 5 Tabs and each click on the tab triggers a different direct call rule. Now in Launch I can finally handle everything in one rule and set all direct call rule names as trigger. Nevertheless I want to know at the end which tab has been clicked. Hence I would need to reference the direct call rule name e.g. in an eVar or in the custom link section. How can I find out which rule was the triggering one?

Thanks for your help!

Best,

Konstantin

[FOX007]

I don't think you can do what you are proposing. I think it is a 1:1 relationship with direct call rules (and possibly 1:many). Meaning that each direct call will have to have at least one rule attached to it. I also don't think there is any way of referencing the trigger event.  What I would do is update the data layer with whatever tab you are clicking on and fire the same direct call rule for all 5 tabs. In your one rule you can set the evar to the value in the data layer.

[KRAZ]

Thanks @FOX007 for your response. Good idea to go over the Data Layer, nevertheless I cannot change the application anymore, hence I will go for 5 separate rules and just write the value manually into the eVar.

[Stewart_Schilling]

I saw this about a week ago in the Adobe Launch Developers slack channel.

Hot off the press, you can access the rule name to send it off to Analytics or whatever: `%event.$rule.name%`

[KRAZ · Accepted solution]

Brilliant comment, this gave me the hint where I need to look into. The event object in my case looks the following:

event.$rule.name:"RULE_NAME"

event.$type:"RULE_TYPE" e.g. core.direct-call

event.identifier:"DIRECT_CALL_RULE_NAME"

In my case I was looking for the identifier. So problem solved !

[jewilliams]

Were you able to get the event identifier to populate as a eVar? I'm wanting to do what you mention in the initial question, but I'm not quite following to your end result. 

[amandae13031165]

You can do the following: 

If you have a rule that fires off of multiple direct calls

 

and one of those has an identifier of "group-tour"

You can reference that identifier in your custom code like this

[Rohit8085]

Hi @amandae13031165 , @Stewart_Schilling , @KRAZ 

I was also trying to pass the PageLoad rule name into an eVar. However, I'm still getting empty eVar in the console. Is something I'm missing in the implementation?
 

 

Thanks,

Rohit

 

[Stewart_Schilling]

Try using the AA Set Variable UI.  In the example below I set eVar3 to %event.$rule.name%

[Rohit8085]

The above solution worked. Thank you so much @Stewart_Schilling  

[jewilliams]

@KRAZ @Stewart_Schilling Between the help of you both my rule efficiency just went up tremendously. Thanks! 

Multiple direct calls in events > setting evar as %event.identifier% in UI; gets me exactly what I  needed! What normally would have been 4 separate rules is now 1, and that's just for one requirement. I will be utilizing this to consolidate other requirements!