Inflated count due to custom dimension and metric firing twice

[AS]

Hello,

I've the following tags firing on the destination page after an onsite search is performed.

There are 2 tags firing on the destination URL. The first one is the page level tag that has the custom dimensions and metrics:

#26 (cd26): lipstick
#27 (cd27): type ahead

Custom Metrics
#7 (cm7): 1

There is also an event tag which fires in a separate tag. Can we fire this all in one tag? 
Event Action (ea): lipstick
Event Category (ec): onsite search
Event Label (el): type ahead

Also in this, will we be inflating the search count since the custom dimensions and metrics fire twice? We only want to increment a search once when completed and not duplicate it. 

Thanks,

Arya

[kathleen_jo]

Hello @AS. What website is this happening on? Can you provide a link? Thank you. 

[AS]

Hi @kathleen_jo - It's currently in dev environment and unfortunately I can't share the login credentials for that site to someone outside the organization.

[kathleen_jo]

Okay got it. Let me see if I can find you some help. Stay tuned @AS...

[adrian_browning]

@AS

You should be able to combine this all into one tag, without having to worry about inflation of the metrics/dimensions.

If you fire a utag.link with just the event data, (and possibly the tag ID) you won't have to worry about inflation.

utag.link({/*...data...*/},null, [/*tag id*/]);

https://community.tealiumiq.com/t5/JavaScript-utag-js/Page-Tracking/ta-p/15563

Adrian

[TealiumJustin · Accepted solution]

@AS A single instance of the Google Analytics tag should be able to handle all of your tracking needs. Here are a couple things to check:

1. Are your data mappings scoped to views, links, or both? You can specify the mappings to only apply to view or events by selecting the Event Type, seen here:

2. There is a tag configuration setting to Clear Vars, which will prevent page view data from being passed along to subsequent events.

[AS]

Thank you @TealiumJustin. Scoping data mappings to link for these dimensions did the trick.