Matthew,I'm not aware of any issue like this, but I've asked a member of our team to reach out to you to get some more information that will help us investigate.Thanks,Shawn

Re: Issue about Hashtag “#” in the URL String shawncreed1 - Dynamic Tag Management

George,Can you please elaborate on what kind of problems you're having? I'm not aware of any widespread problems with this, but I'd be happy to look into it more if you can provide some additional details.Thanks!-Shawn

Re: DTM: Any possibility to access the target of an Event based rule from within a Custom data element? shawncreed1 - Dynamic Tag Management

I'm reading the original question again and I think I misunderstood what was being asked. So, first, if you are trying to reference the element being targeted by the event based rule, the 'this' object will refer to that element. You can then get what you need in a variety of ways. If you want any of the attributes that are already Javascript properties, such as 'href', you can simply reference 'this.href' to get that value. To put that value in an event, you could put %this.href% and it will re...

Re: DTM: Any possibility to access the target of an Event based rule from within a Custom data element? shawncreed1 - Dynamic Tag Management

Marco,Because of the way the different pieces of code are scoped in the engine, the exact scenario you describe isn't possible. However, you could do something like this:1) Create the data element(s) you want. Instead of referencing the target object directly, reference a copy of it (let's use "myTarget" in this example). We'll want to scope myTarget at the global level so it can be accessed anywhere. So, your data element might return something like "window.myTarget.href" if you wanted to retur...

Re: Viewport events in DTM shawncreed1 - Dynamic Tag Management

Craig,Yes, non-visible elements in DTM still trigger "enters viewport", as we don't look to see if something's visible. You can use CSS selectors to help narrow the focus of what the engine matches against though. See my earlier reply for details.Best,Shawn

Re: Rule Won't Update in DTM...Cache issue? shawncreed1 - Dynamic Tag Management

Taylor,It shouldn't take a few hours to update, but it can take up to an hour for changes to appear in the production library when publishing to Akamai because their servers around the world need time to clear the cached copy of your previous library. We are continually working on ways to optimize this timeframe and hope to decrease it in the near future. If you are consistently seeing that it is taking in excess of an hour for your updates to show up, please contact Adobe ClientCare and open a ...

Re: contextData in DTM shawncreed1 - Dynamic Tag Management

Tim,DTM doesn't do anything that would reset/re-initialize contextData, and Appmeasurement still supports it as far as I know.This is a situation where it would be helpful for us to get some additional information so we can investigate further and see what might be going on. Can you please e-mail Adobe ClientCare (clientcare@adobe.com) with as much detail as possible, including the URL(s) where you are testing, the company/property/rule(s) involved, etc?Best,Shawn

Re: DTM: Event based rules with AA code already present fire, but no AA beacon is generated shawncreed1 - Dynamic Tag Management

Marco,Is 's2' the name of the object being used in your on-page implementation? If not, then this won't work.When you check the "Adobe Analytics page code is already present" checkbox, DTM will not a) load s_code (which means it won't create any new s objects), or b) call s.t() for the page view. Thus, if you've specified 's2' as the object name, but your current on-page implementation uses 's' (or some other object name), then DTM is trying to call s2.tl() which refers to an invalid object, and...

Re: DTM Rule fires, but will not trigger SiteCat vars as expected. shawncreed1 - Dynamic Tag Management

Frank,I don't know for sure which property/rule you are working with, but I think I was able to find it. It looks like you aren't setting anything for Analytics aside from the lines in the Custom Code. I'm not sure if it's still present, but there used to be an odd quirk with Custom Code that required you to set at least one variable through the UI as well, otherwise it wouldn't send any of that data through.I would try setting Page URL to "%document.location.pathname%" (without the quotes) just...

Re: Adobe DTM s_code management shawncreed1 - Dynamic Tag Management

My apologies; you're correct. That prefix was used on some older legacy accounts but I don't believe it's in use anymore.-Shawn

Re: Adobe DTM s_code management shawncreed1 - Dynamic Tag Management

We are looking at some ways of making this a built-in feature in the engine. There are a few things that make this tricky to implement in a way that works for everyone.However, in the meantime, you can create a function similar to the following:function getAnalyticsAccount() { for(var toolid in _satellite.tools) { if(_satellite.tools[toolid].settings.engine == "sc") { return _satellite.tools[toolid].settings.account; } } }And then in your s_code you can use it like this:var s_account = getAnalyt...

Re: DTM Rule based Event Handler shawncreed1 - Dynamic Tag Management

You would simply use 'this' in custom code to reference the object that was targeted by the rule. So, for example, if you wanted to get the title attribute of the link referenced in your example above, you could use custom code like:var linkTitle = this.getAttribute("title");Hope this helps!-Shawn

Re: How does it work? shawncreed1 - Dynamic Tag Management

Ryan,All of the rules run in-browser, so yes, it would return the code client-side. However, I would ask you to reconsider the idea that it would be bad for performance. If you use our default option of non-sequential HTML/Javascript to inject the tag, then it will run in parallel with the rest of the page and will not cause any slowdown whatsoever in the page load or user experience.Regarding cookies, since the code is running on your website, the cookie will be set on your domain when the rule...

Re: DTM - Fire Single Call when Element becomes Visible shawncreed1 - Dynamic Tag Management

Craig,It's possible to do this using the CSS selector syntax in an event-based rule. Set the event type to "element exists", and then use a selector like this:div.hiddendiv[style*='display:block']What this example does is looks for a div with a class of 'hiddendiv', and makes sure that the style includes "display:block". You may have to tweak this approach depending on how your site developers are hiding/showing the elements, but something similar to this should accomplish what you need.Hope thi...

Re: DTM - How to use Client IP address as a rule condition shawncreed1 - Dynamic Tag Management

Stew,Unfortunately IP address is not exposed directly in the browser via HTML/Javascript for security reasons. The only way that DTM could use IP address is if your site actually set the user's IP address in a Javascript variable on every page, or if you used an AJAX call to an outside server to get this information. The latter of these is not the preferred option given that it adds additional latency to the processing of your DTM rules (because it has to wait for the remote server to respond), ...

Re: Dynamic Tag Management Bug: "domain has already been taken" error shawncreed1 - Dynamic Tag Management

Lukas,As this sounds like a potential bug, I would reach out to Adobe ClientCare via phone or live chat. They'll be able to get the details of which site you're trying to work with, and help you find a workable solution.Best,Shawn

Re: DTM - Using Multiple Analytics tool instances installed in a single web property shawncreed1 - Dynamic Tag Management

All Analytics tools will fire on every page regardless, at least for a basic page view call, even if you haven't configured any rules. (Just the same as it would if you did a base Analytics implementation without TMS and didn't set any page-level variables but only had the s.t() call.)If you want to suppress a particular tool from loading on certain pages, you would want to use the Customize Page Code option in the respective tool settings. In there, you would write some conditions in Javascript...

Re: Adobe Analytics in DTM shawncreed1 - Dynamic Tag Management

David,Did you have the script set to Javascript instead of HTML? If so, that might be why: the code you pasted above includes HTML elements so it would cause the Javascript parser to throw up an error.That said, simply pasting your old code into DTM may work, but it's not the best way to make use of DTM's capabilities. Ideally you would be identifying groups of pages or scenarios where a set of variables (like the ones above) would be set, create a rule for that page group/scenario, and then use...

Re: DTM tutorials, trainings etc shawncreed1 - Dynamic Tag Management

Jens,The main reason we haven't put a lot of documentation around the data layer is because we don't require any specific standard or format. Anything that's in the DOM (HTML, CSS, or Javascript) can be referenced in DTM and used to populate data elements.For example, let's say you had a Javascript object defined on the page that was populated by Adobe Experience Manager or whatever content management system you happen to be using:var pageData = { "pageName" : "Creating a data layer in DTM", "pa...

Re: DTM: [Bug] Creating data elements between web properties shawncreed1 - Dynamic Tag Management

Jim,This is a known issue that our engineering team is working on. Thanks for bringing it to our attention!-Shawn

Re: DTM: cookie lifetime for s_fid is 5 years (instead of 2y) shawncreed1 - Dynamic Tag Management

Michael,DTM's "cookie lifetime" setting affects the s.cookieLifeTime variable that would otherwise be set in the s_code/AppMeasurement file. If it is set to "default" in the tool configuration, then we don't pass a value and rely on whatever the s_code/AppMeasurement defaults to (which I believe is actually 5 years, or at least it used to be). If it's set to something other than default, we pass that value to the s.cookieLifeTime variable. We don't directly control the cookies or their expiratio...

Re: Setting pagename to path in DTM shawncreed1 - Adobe Analytics

Data elements are locally scoped, which means that you would need to prefix this with "window." to access the right object.If you update your code to the following, it should work:if(window.location.pathname){ return window.location.pathname;}else return '';-Shawn

Re: Capture s.products set on page in s.trackLinkVars using DTM? shawncreed1 - Adobe Analytics

Garry,Setting s.linkTrackVars or s.linkTrackEvents can be accomplished via the "Custom Page Code" editor in the Adobe Analytics section of a rule. Keep in mind that the Custom Page Code editor has its own Javascript scope, so you need to make sure that the 's' object is available to your code before trying to access it.Here's how I would do what you're trying to do:[img]Dynamic_Tag_Management__by_Adobe.png[/img]Hope this helps!Best,Shawn

Re: Capture s.products set on page in s.trackLinkVars using DTM? shawncreed1 - Adobe Analytics

Garry,To modify s.linkTrackVars or s.linkTrackEvents in DTM, you can do this via the "Custom Code" editor in the Adobe Analytics section of your rule. You'll need to keep in mind that the Custom Code editor has its own scope in Javascript, so you'll need to make sure it has the right reference to your s object.Here's how I'd do what you're trying to do:[img]Dynamic_Tag_Management__by_Adobe.png[/img]Hope this helps!Best,Shawn

Re: Capture s.products set on page in s.trackLinkVars using DTM? shawncreed1 - Adobe Analytics

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