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Maxwell s.c
Maxwell s.c

Reputation: 1668

Track custom events on GA inserted by GTM

I have inserted Google Analytics using Google Tag Manager on my site.

Often, an site has only one analytics. But when you have multiple, analytics recommends to name them.

Custom Events using ga("send", "...") only apply to the global analytics instance. I need to track an Ajax Form with custom events. If you have a named instance, you need to call ga("INSTANCE_NAME.send", "...").

The problem: Tag Manager is inserting the analytics with an name (gtm1) even having only one instance. This way, i need always to set the name on custom events and on my case, i can't do it because i use an plugin.

What i need is to remove the name inserted by tag manager and use an global instance, but i want to keep using the tag manager to insert the tag.

Upvotes: 1

Views: 172

Answers (1)

Eike Pierstorff
Eike Pierstorff

Reputation: 32760

In the advanced settings there is a field where you can override the tracker name (if you use a settings variable you need to check "enable override settings" first). I haven't done this for some time, but it used to be that if you enabled the field but did not enter a name the tracker name would revert to the default.

override settings variable

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Upvotes: 2

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