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@Marlene - Sorry I missed this. We ended up not using that option, but imho it is the only one that would work. ... View more

@jared_empirical wrote: I realize this is an old thread, but I think there is an easier way to accomplish this with gtag.js.  Go to tag mappings In the variables dropdown select "Use Custom Value" Type in "clientId" in the top left hand input box. This value really doesn't matter.  Click "Add Custom Dimension"  Type in "cdm.dimensionXX-clientId" Replace "XX" with the custom dimension number you want to populate.  Click Done, Apply and Publish.    Did this actually work for you @jared_empirical? Because it does not for me. CORRECTION: I had an issue with my Fiddler... :) Amazing, thanks! ... View more

Hmmm that's fascinating, but it looks like a rather brutal hack, and having TMS code that relies on Babel or other libraries is also not recommended, it makes the code slower and you never know where that code may end up (e.g. on a website without Babel support). Trusting on Babel alone often still does not suffice for IE11. So I on the one hand appreciate your development skills, but I would not advocate such a solution for a sustainable, big-company-type Tealium implementation. Tealium should offer their native function for that. Everything else I have seen here so far are hacks which may sooner or later fall on our heads. ... View more

well thanks, but this is a bug or a glaring error in the documentation or lack of consistency. Should we raise product ideas for typos as well? ... View more

yes the more shocking is that I alerted this to support several months ago AND in the forum and everything stays as it is... ... View more

@kathleen_jo Does Tealium bother correcting its documentation or making the wording in the GTAG GA Tag consistent with the Analytics.js GA Tag? Or do we waste our time here trying to help improve the product?  ... View more

@craig_rouse: ""All Page Hits" will use the "set" command in GA, which will persist the dimension for the current hit and all subsequent hits on that page." This is contradicting the official Tealium documentation: "This parameter allows you to map a custom dimension based on event types. Selecting an option other than "All Page Hits (set)" will cause the mapping to only be applied for the selected event type." - see the official Tealium documentation: https://community.tealiumiq.com/t5/Tags/Google-Universal-Analytics-Tag-Advanced-Mapping/ta-p/11985 => So for me this means: "If I set "all Page Hits", I get the dimension set on any Hit. And that is a setting that MAKES SENSE, instead of having to map every UDO variable twice that is used for Events and Pageviews which is usually the case for 95% of the variables (Event Category, Action, Label are only set for Events, anything else can be both). I don't know who thought up this "All Page Hits" meaning you mention here, but it should be renamed to "persist to all Hits on same page" or sth like that AND there needs to be a setting "Any Hit" because that's what we would need in almost all cases... ... View more

No, we had to stop this after several tries. The problem is that it does not seem possible (at least not without considerable extra engineering) to get the AdWords Cookie that is generated when clicking a link into Tealium's mobile app web view or the UDH-based library. So you can fire those Tags and they do send data to AdWords, but they will never show up as Conversions because AdWords cannot connect them with their "ad clicked" cookie. If you have Adobe Analytics, they have a sensible In-App Conversion Tracking possibility (see the good description by Tealium here: https://community.tealiumiq.com/t5/Installation-Libraries/Mobile-App-Download-Tracking-with-Adobe-Analytics/ta-p/17914 ), but with Google Analytics, you are really stuck with 2 options: 1) put the native Firebase framework into your app and use Firebase's built-in attribution stuff (does not cover all ad networks, eg no facebook) and their "Dynamic Links". You will have to live with Firebase's super-limited interface and even more limited e-commerce tracking framework, having to get any useful report data via BigQuery (quite a workaround, nothing for business people (they hate Firebase because they cannot do anything themselves and we have to now make Data Studio Reports for simple questions like "how many products X did campaign Y sell?")) 2) use a 3rd-party app attribution provider (adjust, appsflyer etc.). Here, instead of setting up an AdWords Conversion Tag in Tealium, you'd do the following: 1. Set up a 3rd party App Attribution provider that provides you with link URLs for your Ads. 2. Have your Ads link to those URLs (they then forward users into your app) 3. Inside the app, deploy the native 3rd-party Attribution provider's library. That library then does some "visitor stitching" and also informs AdWords etc. about your conversions via "postbacks". hope that helps, @BretCamble . ... View more

correction: 3 years later! ... View more

And why is the link in the publish settings STILL leading to a non-existing page 1 1/2 years later? https://community.tealiumiq.com/t5/Archived-Posts/OLD-Publish-Configurations/m-p/2010#implementation "ACCESS DENIED" ... View more

thanks @Anonymous, this is great feedback. I still would like a solution that does not require overriding native Tealium functions, but it seems this is the only way to do it. ... View more

That's slick, thanks a lot! However, that is quite a brutal method to override standard Tealium functionality for this simple purpose I have in mind. Tealium Developers of the future may hate me for such a hack... So I will look out for something less invasive. ... View more

1) The gtag-based Google Tags all make calls to the googletagmanager domain. It is sort of an extra-GTM container just for these gtag-based google tags (Ads, Analytics, Floodlights). So don't worry about that. So you don't need to activate Google Tag Manager. 2) That's much more complicated to answer as it depends on the conditions (how to test whether it is working in a Safari with ITP enabled is something even the Google staff was incompetent at explaining. But in general, you should still see requests with the required floodlight parameters going out in your http debugging tool like before with the traditional floodlight tag. ... View more

@craig_rouse Ok we have now implemented it with @maciekstanasiuk. It looks like it is working. Yesterday, the data looked fishy, but that was due to what seems like an incidence in the Universal Data Hub infrastructure (Data Layer Enrichment was malfunctioning during most of the day). Today it looks better, and if you look at the second table, you see what we would expect: Most Safari browsers do not accept third-party cookies, in other browsers that percentage is almost negligible (which surprises me a bit, so I hope what Tealium's flag represents is really acceptance of 3rd party cookies). Still, for us in Switzerland, Safari is about 60% of the traffic, so third-party cookies are a no-go for tracking. ... View more

did that now, sorry ... View more

That effectively solves my problem. Wonderful, thank you! ... View more

still in dev, will let you know when we have some insights ... View more

thanks. ... View more

1. Visitor IDs do not come back via Data Layer Enrichment - the above discussion relates to the actual Visitor ID stitching key used inside AudienceStream. => Ok, then let's say Visitor ID as a Visitor STring Attribute which is enriched with the Visitor ID (or by the same rule that enriches the Visitor ID). But 2. answers the question already. So it is indeed strange: Visitor ID as a String will be different from the very Visitor ID even though both are filled by the same rule... That's going to create confusion. ... View more

@adrian_browning Now it seems that the JSON this Plugin produces is invalid, at least according to the importer. The JSON I get e.g. for the Audience Stream Badge Checker from the Exporter is: {'id':'as_badge_checker','icon_url':'','title':'AS Badge Checker','description':'','scripts':{'generate_code':{'title':'','auto_inject':true,'description':'','template':'https://solutions.tealium.net/hosted/tealiumTools/badge_checker/template.html','js':'https://solutions.tealium.net/hosted/tealiumTools/badge_checker/template.js','remote_js':true,'remote_template':true}}} It looks correct at first sight (at least I don't see the errors), but when importing it I get this: This is the same for all the extensions...   ... View more

Ok thanks, @mark_reddin, so just so I understand it right: It seems like if a user changes his email address and then visits the site in another device where we only have his login ID, Audience Stream will point to his old email address => Data Layer Enrichment will push his old email address into the data layer This is hugely important for us as it would mean that users get always "pushed back" into their old Visitor Profile Data. ... View more

That's a good one, @craig_rouse, thanks.   ... View more