Confused about something easy

  • Resolved Keyflow Creative

    (@keyflow-creative)


    8 years, 9 months ago

    Firstly thank you for this great plugin I can’t wait to be able to actually collect data from it.
    okay here is my issue. I think I might be misunderstanding (obviously).

    None of this explains how to actually add your data to the datalayer. I understand I need to add some things because it’s your plugin. However here is where I become lost. What am i adding and how? I saw/read all the other posts here and saw that you have an outdated tutorial you were planning on updating.

    Okay let’s do it this way:
    1) I see this as one of the items in my GTM summary.
    ‘gtm4wp.reading.contentBottom’

    2) So I created and named the User Defined Variable – DuracellTomi Attempt 1
    Type= Data Layer Variable

    3) Okay, it’s not firing anything in GTM when i scroll to the bottom or in GA and I’m not sure what I need to do to make it do this. You added options and just no way for me to understand how to make them do anything. I knwo this has some serious power. I have looked at everything googled for help and im simply lost here.

    Literally all i need you to do is show me what the step i am missing is.

    Site location is wdmfactorystore.com

    I can make variables and tags and I just need to know what tags, triggers and variable to add and how to make it fire when someone scrolls to the bottom of the page. I show the tag in the preview… its nto firing. Whats my trigger and variable? You do that and I will write the detailed version of how to do it for your website for you so we can alleviate the need for this question to be asked again.

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  • Plugin Author Thomas Geiger

    (@duracelltomi)

    8 years, 9 months ago

    Hi,

    I think your confusion is around the terms “trigger”, “event” and “variable”

    – Trigger: this is the rule set that can fire one or more tag in your GTM setup
    – Event: this is a special code in the website (or an automatically tracked interaction by GTM) – you can use events and event names to create triggers that catch those events and fire certain tags only if those events happen on the site
    – Variable: those are extra data provided by the website or grabbed from the HTML code (well, it can be more than that – I just try to keep the definition simple for you)

    gtm4wp.reading.contentBottom is an event name thus you should not add this as a data layer variable name. You should create a new trigger, select “Custom event” as type and enter this value as the event name. Now attach this new trigger to a GA tag so that you can see some data going to be stored in GA.

    Does this make more sense for you?

    If you do not mind: I would suggest to check some tutorial videos about GTM, that could maybe explain for you some basic concepts. This might be a good starting point:
    https://analytics.google.com/analytics/academy/course/5

    Thomas

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