How to trigger data collection with SiteCatalyst?

Question

I just get started with Adobe SiteCatalyst and I am just wondering how could I trigger the sending of colllected data to the server with it. Imagine the situation that I have some custom event, for example event1 = 'user opened help us popup'. After user opens popup - I'm assigning data to props:

s.events = "event1";
s.prop1 = "name of popup";

After that I'm checking the analytics debugger (https://www.adobetag.com/d1/digitalpulsedebugger/live/DPD.js) and it says that I didn't get this data.I suppose that I need somehow send it to SiteCatalyst, but I can't figure out how. Please help me.

Answer 1

There are two triggers for Adobe Analytics: page view s.t() and click/event s.tl()

Based on your scenario, you are probably going to want to use the s.tl() trigger.

Here is an example of what the code should look like:

s.events = "event1";
s.prop1 = "name of popup";
s.linkTrackVars = "events,prop1";
s.linkTrackEvents = "event1";
s.tl(true,'o','popup opened');

The vars you want to be tracked in the s.tl() call should be listed in linkTrackVars. If there is more than one, delimit with a comma (no spaces, no s namespace). If you have any events to track, you must also specify the events in s.linkTrackEvents. Basically, s.linkTrackEvents should be the same value as s.events (except if you are serializing an event, do NOT include the serialization ID in s.linkTrackEvents)

As for the s.tl() call, above is an example of what you might pass for a general event, but args will vary depending on what you are trying to track. (refer to link for details).