Timing of ACDL AdobeDataLayer?

[MichaelJo13]

Please correct me if I'm wrong. We are using the ACDL extension, which will automatically initialize the adobeDataLayer. So, the web application developers only have to worry about initializing the data layer, if they are adding some data before the Web SDK code loads. If they are only doing a "push" they obviously need to make the call after the Web SDK code loads. So, would it be a Best Practice to just have them initialize the adobeDataLayer regardless before the Web SDK code loads?

Thanks!

[bjoern__koth · Accepted solution]

Hi @MichaelJo13 

the beauty of the ACDL is that - like with GTM's "window.datalayer" - your developers can initialize the "window.adobeDataLayer" and push data and events to it at any time before Launch is loaded.

window.adobeDataLayer = window.adobeDataLayer || [];

// push some data to be present in the computed state
window.adobeDataLayer.push({
  "hello": "world",
  "foo": {
    "bar": 1
  }
});

// push a specific event
window.adobeDataLayer.push({
  "event": "woohoo",
  "eventInfo": {
    "bla": "blub"
  }
});

// async loaded Launch ready will process whatever has been pushed so far

This is best practice to avoid losing tracking calls. As soon as Launch and the extension loads, it will automatically enhance the previous definition with functions like getState() 

Hope this answers your question 

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[MichaelJo13]

It was helpful.

Thanks!

[MichaelJo13]

Thank you!

[RiteshYadav18]

@MichaelJo13  yeah it is best practice to data layer ready before loading web SDK