SiteCatalyst:How to set currency event for shipping cost - SOLVED

[aliskink]

I've answered my own question, but thought I'd share for anyone else:

My initial question

I want to set shipping cost into event7 as a currency metric either in the format:

 s.events = "purchase,event7=5.00";

or in s.products 

e.g.

  s.products=";prod1;1;10.00,;prod2;2;12.00,;shipping;;;event7=5.00";

but am struggling to achieve this using eCommerce extension.

It either ends up appending to every product like this :

  s.products=";prod1;1;10.00;event7=5.00,;prod2;2;12.00;event7=5.00,;shipping;;;event7=5.00";

(which inflates the shipping cost recorded)

or it just sets event7 as a single success event like this:

  s.events = "purchase,event7";

(which doesn't record a cost value)

I've tried using JS extensions to overwrite s.products, s.events, utag_data.shipping_cost or _cship but to no avail.

Any ideas?   Do I have to use do_Plugins to achieve this?

My solution

Yep.  I had to use s_doPlugins in a custom Javascript extension.

Just had this code in there:

   s.usePlugins = true;
   function s_doPlugins(s) {
   if(s.events.indexOf("purchase")>-1){
      s.events+=",event7="+utag_data.shipping_cost;
   }
   s.plugins = ""
   }
   s.doPlugins = s_doPlugins; 

And set the scope to Pre-Loader and SiteCatalyst and ran it after the eCommerce extension.

[kathleen_jo]

Great solution @aliskink. Thank you for sharing!

[adrian_browning]

Hi @aliskink,

Just so you know in the Adobe Analytics tag there is a function available to you.

u.addEvent(eventName <(string|array) of events>, data);

 This will append this event, along with anyothers that the tag has generated to the s.events string.

Hope this helps.

Adrian

[aliskink]

Cool, thanks Adrian!