Hi Javier,
I think you forgot to include a link to a screenshot about “the following screeen”.
Thomas
Thread Starter
AlfieM
(@javier1970)
Hello,
The screen I would like to stay on so I could recover the information in the data layers and variables is this one:
http://mydomain.com/checkout/
in this screen shot, you can see that once you click on “place order” (that is the “checkout_place_order” button fro woocommerce), you will either be going to the paypal payment page or our bank’s credit card payment gateway. In both cases these are external pages.
When the “checkout_place_order” button is clicked, all the data such as product, order number, shipping costs, vat, etc. are known, if only I could stay on that screen (and open the following external screen in another window) by using the magical “control+shift” buttons (which in this unique instance do not work as the following pages are opened in the same window) I would be able to perhaps see that data and retrieve it somehow…
Thanks for your help on this!
Regards,
Javier
Hi Javier,
Have you tried to use the “Recordings” feature of the Google Tag Assistant Chrome plugin?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_7zoJR6uq2g
https://support.google.com/analytics/answer/6277302?hl=en
Using this there is no need to tweak the default behavior since this browser extension can capture all Google related tags even if you click on a button that makes the browser to move on to other pages.
Thomas
Thread Starter
AlfieM
(@javier1970)
Hello Thomas, that is really a cool feature, thanks for suggesting it, I had no idea about it. I have tried it immediately.
I don’t however see the data layers or variables available in that “hidden page” (example url of that page, http://mydomain/checkout/order-received/8132/?key=wc_order_56ebc70e3cc6b&order-pay=8132) so I cannot retrieve this information to include it in a new tag.
I know this is getting out of the scope of your plugin support so I understand if you cannot keep on answering these questions 🙂
Thank you so much for all the support provided this far.