Mapping Utag.link data to utag_data objects

[bmarcus]

I currently have a single page architecture form that several utag.link elemets are setting. However, the values for these are not being passed to utag_data objects for mapping to Adobe Analytics. For example, we have utag.link calls for first_name, last_name, retirement_month_year. Once the form is sumitted, the utag.link call sets these elemts, which I can see in the i.gif file under FORM DATA, but the values are not migrated to the utag_data or utag.data elements. Do I need an extension to make this happen?

[GavinAttard]

Hi @bmarcus 

the utag_data object declared on initial load is not re-purposed when additional tracking calls like .view or .link are called. 

Rather the utag.data or the b object are updated according to what is passed in the calls and any extension driven transformations. 

More info on SPA

More info on b object

Some useful utility functions when working with SPA.

in particular the merge function

Hope that helps. 

Gavin

[bmarcus]

So, in short, I'd need to create an extension to fire using the merge function to merge the form data into utag.data, right?

[GavinAttard]

@bmarcus 

yes at it's most simple it would look like this

utag.ut.merge(b, utag_data,0);

The extention is conditioned to ut.event == link

[bmarcus]

Thanks, Gavin. I'll give it a whirl

[bmarcus]

SO, use this code within a JQuery extension?

[jsb]

@bmarcus You could scope this to "All Tags Before Load Rules". Just make sure to add a condition to check if ut.event equals "link". This way you do not need to add this code to individual jQuery extensions.