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androidgoogle-analyticsgoogle-tag-manager
OpenSrcFTW
OpenSrcFTW

Reputation: 211

Android GTM: Possible to start new Google Analytics session manually?

So I'm working on implementing the latest Google Tag Manager into my application for use with Google Analytics. It's in place and everything is working great, but I do have a question.

Is it possible to manually start a new session within GA while using GTM to fire all of the events? For example, when I user logs out I would like to begin a new session, can I force that to happen using GTM?

Thanks!

OSFTW

Upvotes: 2

Views: 930

Answers (1)

CrayonViolent
CrayonViolent

Reputation: 32537

You can do this with the sessionControl config var.

In GTM, in your GA tag config, it's under

More Settings > Fields to Set

Click the Add Field button, then for Field Name put sessionStart and for Value put "end" to force end of the current session or "start" to force (re)start of session.

Notes:

If you are using a Web Container Type, this is only available for Universal Analytics Tag Type. The Classic Google Analytics Tag Type does not have an equivalent, though you can maybe do some magic with _setSessionCookieTimeout if you're feeling ambitious.

If the GTM container is created as Mobile Container Type, it will only show Google Analytics as a Tag Type option, but this is a misnomer. Under the hood, GTM uses the Measurement Protocol for Mobile containers, and sessionControl is available for that.

Upvotes: 2

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