Event tracking

Everything your customers do is recorded in the system. What pages they’ve opened, where they came from, and what they saw next. You will know when they hovered over a banner for a longer time than usual and when they clicked that banner. You can know when they logged in to your mobile application and what parts of that application they’ve clicked or interacted with - all events are monitored in real time. In addition to what is gathered automatically, you can declare many different types of events and gather as much data as you need by tagging fields in your web forms.

All events have at least the following:

action - indicates the action type, in the form context.activity, so, for example, page.visit means that a page has been visited
time - the time when the event occurred
uuid - a reference to the customer that generated the activity
params - any additional parameters, some of them are required (depends on the activity context, for example, the url of the page for a page.visit)

Authentication

Requests to the SDK may require customer authentication. For more details, see this article.

Automatically tracked activities

All page view events on your website are tracked automatically, unless configured otherwise (see installation and configuration). The same applies to events related to the customer session.

Each time a page is refreshed, the tracking code is initiated. At this moment, a page.visit event is generated, providing information about the page visited by the customer. This means that for single-page applications, which do not refresh between pages, the page.visit event must be sent on-demand, as described here.

List of automatically tracked activities

Action	Activity Tracked	Label
page.visit	All page views of your tracked domain	Visited page {{page title}}
session.start	Information about a customer starting a session	Started session
session.end	Information about a customer ending a session	Session end

Declarative tracking (custom events)

Aside from automatically tracked activities, you can also create custom events that record customer actions.

This could be the tracking of all product views, screen views, sign-up button clicks, call-center contacts, or anything else you may want.

Important:

When using the JS SDK, you can only send custom events that are defined in Data Management > Events and have at least the Make this event available to anonymous profiles without JWT option selected in their permission settings.

Events with action names that are not defined in the system are rejected.

Parameters that are not defined in the system are saved to a database, but their definitions are not added automatically to the Data Management module and the parameters are not available in analytics and some APIs.

Example:

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SR.event.trackCustomEvent(
    "entries.count", // event action name
    { // additional parameters
        "lat": "50.0937",
        "lon": "18.5429",
        "object": "Shopping center",
        "shopId": "S198",
        "shopName": "Chicago",
        "zipCode": "60639",
        "street": "W North Ave",
        "time": 1556474400000,
        "entries": 27
    }
)

The method takes two arguments:

The name of the action. (line 2)
An object that contains optional event parameters (lines 3-13)