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Vasanthakumar V
Vasanthakumar V

Reputation: 471

Custom Dimension with "Hit" Scope passing empty value for other hits

I have a HTML single page application (it is a single HTML file, where i show page navigation as hiding and showing multiple div elements, so page navigations are not actual page loads, just switching divs)

I have created some 5 custom dimensions of "Session" scope, so they will be always present and tracked with some value.

However, I need a 6th dimension which will be populated only upon doing a particular operation such as clicking a button. So i have created 6th dimension and set its scope as "Hit". In the HTML application, as soon as the user clicks the button, i set the value for that dimension and do a send for that request (it is actually an 'ec' tracking), i can see that the 6th dimension value is also set.

The problem is, After this tracking, if i track any other event tracking or page view tracking, the same value is being passed for the cd6 parameter.

Could you please let me know if i am doing anything wrong here?

Upvotes: 1

Views: 626

Answers (1)

Eike Pierstorff
Eike Pierstorff

Reputation: 32760

If you set a custom dimension via set it will apply to all hits that follow:

ga('set', 'dimension1', 'mydata');

will attach the dimension to all following tracking calls (especially bad on a single page app).

You can pass a JSON object as second parameter to the ga("send") call instead and set the dimension there:

ga('send', {
  'dimension1': 'mydata',
});

That way the dimension is only sent with that pageview, later interactions will not be affected.

Upvotes: 2

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