How to simply add one custom parameter to "trackPageView"?

[Gaultier Boniface]

Hello,

I'm tracking page view events on a Wordpress website and I would like to know how I can add a simple "page_id" parameter to the tracked data? I'm using Google Tag Manager to send this in the dataLayer array but what to do after that on the snowplow side?

Is there a way to add a custom parameter somehow or must I use the "custom contexts" and start a private Iglu server?

Thanks for your answer.

[Gaultier Boniface]

Or maybe should I use this context: http://iglucentral.com/schemas/com.snowplowanalytics.snowplow/screen_view/jsonschema/1-0-0?

[Alex Dean]

Hi Gaultier,

It sounds like you want to attach custom metadata to your page views. The way to do this with Snowplow is to create a com.omenabler/web_page JSON Schema, add it to your own Iglu server and use Schema Guru to create a dedicated JSON Paths file and Redshift table.

Cheers,

Alex

On Mon, Aug 31, 2015 at 10:36 AM, Gaultier Boniface <g.bon...@omenabler.com> wrote:

Or maybe should I use this context: http://iglucentral.com/schemas/com.snowplowanalytics.snowplow/screen_view/jsonschema/1-0-0?

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[Gaultier Boniface]

Hello Alex,

As always thanks for your fast answer! ;)

I will take a look at all this in the next days.

Cheers. 

[Bernardo Srulzon]

​Gautier, Alex - 

We're going through the same implementation right now - we need to add "page_type" to our page views. I was implementing it as a custom context to 'trackPageView', but just realized that "page_type" is only pushed to the data layer after the initial ​'trackPageView' call. Two questions:

1. Can I call 'trackPageView' again (with the page_type custom context) once all information is available on the data layer, without the risk of generating duplicate page views?

2. If not, is unstructured events the way to go? It would mean having an unstructured event for each page view.

Thanks!

Bernardo

[Alex Dean]

If you call trackPageView again, the page view will get sent twice.

You could send an unstructured event as soon as page_type is available - but why not just delay your trackPageView and send that when page_type is available instead?

A

[Bernardo Srulzon]

That makes a lot of sense. Thanks!