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Documentation? Data insertion via web page beacon

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Monday, 3/9/2009 - 6:00pm
nikenet/martin
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Hi --

Where can I find the documentation for leveraging the web page beacon?

In particular, here's what I'm trying to accomplish:

* I have an HTML page that can be called with a pageId query string variable
* The pageId var determines the content rendered in the HTML page (this is javascript based)
* I'd like the web beacon to report to SC with a different page name (s.pageName) based on the content that's been loaded.

Can I delay the reporting to SC until the page is fully rendered and JS has had a chance to set the s.pageName var?

Thanks in advance for your help.

Best,
Martin Rio

Wednesday, 3/11/2009 - 4:06am
lamontcrook/lcrook
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Martin,

This is exactly how the JavaScript library works. All you need to do is include the getQueryParam() plugin in the s_code file and from the do_Plugins function call getQueryParam().

s.pageName = s.getQueryParam("pageId");

No reason to delay anything. do_Plugins will be called before the image request and since the query string is present you don't need the page to fully render.

Lamont

Wednesday, 3/11/2009 - 5:58pm
nikenet/martin
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Thanks Lamont. Will give that a try.

Best,
Martin

Wednesday, 3/11/2009 - 6:05pm
nikenet/martin
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Lamont,

The page name is not on the query string. The query string contains an Id which is used to pull the page name (along with other data) via AJAX on page load. Do you know if it's possible to delay the data insertion and fire it once the AJAX request completes and the page name is available?

Best,
Martin

Thursday, 10/1/2009 - 8:53pm
rgm
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Hi, is there some API docs for the javascript beacon functionality? I have been searching the site and have yet to find it. A pointer to the docs is appreciated,

Mike