Tracking Javascript Events

This is a technical article for all you javascript lovers out there. If you’re looking to track ‘custom’ javascript events within the browser, today is your lucky day! CANDDi tracks all interactions between a web-browser and the server by default. This includes:

• Page views
• Form submissions
• Off-site links
• Video views
• Document downloads

However, on occasion you may wish to track other ‘non-browser to server’ events, for example: the visitor triggers a pop-up; hovers over a text area; or triggers a focus event on a button.

CANDDi’s Javascript Tracker has a full open API which enables tracking of “any” event within your application. Trap the event within your own javascript:

<a href="XXX" onclick="javascript:fnClick()">

or

$("element").onClick(function(){})

Trigger a call to the CANDDi API (NOTE: we recommend wrapping this to ensure that the CANDDi object has loaded.)

if(window.canddi) {
    window.canddi.sendEvent(
        strName,
        objElement,
        bNewGoal,
        strGoalType,
        strURL,
        strTrackerGoalTitle
    );
}

• ‘strName’ is the Title of the event
• ‘objElement’ is a javascript hash {key1:value1, key2:value2} of parameters.
• bNewGoal (boolean value) set to false
• strGoalType is used internally by CANDDi - default to ‘event’
• strURL This is the URL to display as the ‘page’
• strTrackerGoalTitle This is the title that you wish the Event to have when displayed within CANDDi

Example:

if(window.canddi) {
    window.canddi.sendEvent(
        "Register",
        {Name:"Tim Langley","Email":"tim@canddi.com"},
        false,
        "event",
        "https://www.canddi.com",
        "Register for new Event"
    );
}

If you need a hand with this, let us know at help@canddi.com and we’ll see what we can do!