Event Tracking
Everything your customers do on your website or in your mobile application is recorded in the system in real time. Information such as the source of the visit, the URL address they have visited and the chain of actions that followed are saved in Synerise as an event.
The scope of information gathered about events is wide. Synerise collects predefined event parameters which can be extended according to the preferences and needs of the Synerise users.
The basic information about the tracked events includes:
- Action name – an indicator of the activity type, such as
screen.view - Label – human-readable information about the activity, such as the page title
- Time – the time when the event occurred
- Client identification – an identifier of the customer who performed the activity
- Parameters – additional parameters, depending on the type of the event
product.view event must include the product ID.You can enrich events with data from catalogs in Synerise, for example, a product or service event where only an ID has been provided can be enriched with other details such as the description, image URL, and more.
Automatically Tracked Activities
Auto-tracking allows you to monitor each type of the user activity in your mobile application. Every interaction such as click, swipe, view, with any element in the application can be sent as an event to Synerise together with a collection of details concerning the event, which are available in the overview on the client card. The frequency and the kind of the tracked events are customizable, as you can switch on tracking a particular types of interactions.
Auto-tracking is enabled by default. In order to turn it off, you need to include the following configuration in the settings:
Synerise.settings.tracker.autoTracking.enabled = false;Accepted values for trackerTrackMode(mode):
PLAIN- listeners are set to track screen-visits only.FINE- listeners are attached to nearly everything that is clickable in your app, including screen visits.
You can change the queuing behavior as described here: Getting Started.
List of activities tracked automatically
| Action | Activity Tracked | Label | Additional information tracked |
|---|---|---|---|
| screen.view | All screen views in Application | Activity, Fragment names (eg. ProductDetailsFragment) | |
| screen.interaction | All interactions with elements of Application UI | viewText or name of control type (if not able to read value) | Depending on the control type tracked, we try to automatically read and pass any values that are set depending on type, such as: time, date, position, progress, state, value, or if the control has been selected. |
Declarative Tracking
Declarative tracking is a feature of our SDK that allows you to declare additional actions for tracking.
Product views, screen views, clicking a sign up button, contact with the call center, and more: you can implement anything and declarative tracking will help you to do that.
Basic event implementation
In the most basic scenario, you can pass a simple event as in the example below:
Method name: Tracker.send()
Tracker.send(new CustomEvent("my.action", "My label that will be visible on Activity Stream"));Such events are passed to Synerise as the CustomEvent type, since the action can be anything that you want.
Parameterized event implementation
If you want to send more complex events, you can include additional parameters:
TrackerParams params = new TrackerParams.Builder()
.add("name", "John")
.add("surname", "Rise")
.add("company", "Synerise")
.add("age", 25)
.add("isGreat", true)
.add("lastOrder", 384.28)
.add("count", 0x7fffffffffffffffL)
.add("someObject", new MySerializableObject())
.build();
Tracker.send(new CustomEvent("my.action", "My label that will be visible on Activity Stream", params));
Predefined events implementation
In Synerise, we have a set of predefined event types that require a minimum set of data for the backend.
This can be achieved by using Setters as in the example below:
let parameters = {
"campaignHash": "1234",
"campaignId": "1234"
};
let event = ProductViewEvent("Smartphone X", "Smartphone X", "SM-01-S", parameters);
event.setCategory("Smartphones");
event.setURL("myapp://products/SM-01-S");
Synerise.Tracker.send(event);
You can replace ProductViewEvent with another event type. Event types are described below.
For more details, see the Tracker.Send() method reference.
Session Events
Events related to a user’s session.
User registered
This event may be used if you do not use Synerise registration/authentication features and rely fully on your own mechanisms, but still want to gather events about a user registration.
Event type: RegisteredEvent
Mandatory fields: Label
Declaration:
public RegisteredEvent(@NonNull String label, @Nullable TrackerParams params)User logged in event
This event may be used if you do not use Synerise login/authentication features and rely fully on your own mechanisms, but still want to gather events about a user logging in.
Event type: LoggedInEvent
Mandatory fields: Label
Declaration:
public LoggedInEvent(@NonNull String label, @Nullable TrackerParams params)User logged out event
This event may be used if you do not use Synerise login/authentication features and rely fully on your own mechanisms, but still want to gather events about a user logging out.
Event type: LoggedOutEvent
Mandatory fields: Label
Declaration:
public LoggedOutEvent(@NonNull String label, @Nullable TrackerParams params)Product Events
Group of events related to products and the cart.
Product viewed
This event should be used when User has viewed a product (or service) within your application.
Event type: ProductViewEvent
Mandatory fields: Label, ProductId, Name
Declaration:
public ProductViewEvent(@NonNull String label, @NonNull String productId, @NonNull String name,
@Nullable TrackerParams params)Product added to favorites
Use this event type when a product is added to favorites in your application.
Event type: AddedToFavoritesEvent
Mandatory fields: Label
Declaration:
public AddedToFavoritesEvent(@NonNull String label, @Nullable TrackerParams params)Product added to cart
Use this event type when a product is added to the cart in your application.
Event type: AddedToCartEvent
Mandatory fields: Label, Sku, FinalPrice, Quantity
Declaration:
public AddedToCartEvent(@NonNull String label, @NonNull String sku, @NonNull UnitPrice finalPrice, int quantity,
@Nullable TrackerParams params)Product removed from cart
Use this event type when a product is removed from the cart in your application.
Event type: RemovedFromCartEvent
Mandatory fields: Label, Sku, FinalPrice, Quantity
Declaration:
public RemovedFromCartEvent(@NonNull String label, @NonNull String sku, @NonNull UnitPrice finalPrice, int quantity,
@Nullable TrackerParams params)AI Recommendations
Recommendation clicked
Use this event type when a user clicks a recommendation.
If you use our Widget to present recommendations, this event is tracked automatically.
Event type: RecommendationClickEvent
Mandatory fields: Label, ProductId, Name, CampaignId, CampaignHash
Declaration:
public RecommendationClickEvent(@NonNull String label, @NonNull String productId, @NonNull String name,
@NonNull String campaignId, @NonNull String campaignHash, @Nullable TrackerParams params)Recommendation seen
Use this event type when a user sees a recommendation.
If you use our Widget to present recommendations, this event is tracked automatically.
Event type: RecommendationSeenEvent
Mandatory fields: Label, ProductId, Name, CampaignId, CampaignHash
Declaration:
public RecommendationSeenEvent(@NonNull String label, @NonNull String productId, @NonNull String name,
@NonNull String campaignId, @NonNull String campaignHash, @Nullable TrackerParams params)Other Events
Uncategorized events related to user’s location and actions.
User appeared in location
Use this event to record a user’s presence at a location by passing geographic coordinates.
Event type: AppearedInLocationEvent
Mandatory fields: Label, Latitude, Longitude
Declaration:
public AppearedInLocationEvent(@NonNull String label, double lat, double lon, @Nullable TrackerParams params)User activity timer event
This could be used for profiling or activity time monitoring - you can send “hit timer” when your client starts doing something and send it once again when the activity finishes, but this time with a different time signature. Then you can use our analytics engine to measure, for example, average activity time.
Event type: HitTimerEvent
Mandatory fields: Label
Declaration:
public HitTimerEvent(@NonNull String label, @Nullable TrackerParams params)User searched event
This event is used when a user searches for something and you want to track that activity in Synerise.
Event type: SearchedEvent
Mandatory fields: Label
Declaration:
public SearchedEvent(@NonNull String label, @Nullable TrackerParams params)User shared event
This event is used when a user shares something from your application.
Event type: SharedEvent
Mandatory fields: Label
Declaration:
public SharedEvent(@NonNull String label, @Nullable TrackerParams params)User visited a screen
This event is used when a user visits a particular screen within your application.
Event type: VisitedScreenEvent
Mandatory fields: Label
Declaration:
public VisitedScreenEvent(@NonNull String label, @Nullable TrackerParams params)Custom Events
This is the only event which requires the action field, as the field accepts custom action names.
- The custom action must follow the
context.actionconvention. For example:screen.view,product.buy - The name must be up to 32 characters long and must match the following regular expression:
^[a-zA-Z0-9\.\-_]+$
Event type: CustomEvent
Mandatory fields: Action, Label
Declaration:
public CustomEvent(@NonNull String action, @NonNull String label, @Nullable TrackerParams params)