Re: [Flashcoders] tracking travelling

2007-09-05 Thread Glen Pike

Hi,

   I have setup Google Analytics with hardcoded goals and I use a 
function like below (some of the stuff in the function just strips out 
parts of the URL so we just have the name of the site visited - this 
works fine and is recorded in our GA account.


   The only thing here is that most of the URL's all open in a new 
window.  I have not done this with _self.


   function getURLTracked(url:String, window:String) {
   getURL(url, window);
  
   var idx = url.indexOf(://);

   if(-1 != idx) {
   url = url.substring(idx + 3);
   }
   idx = url.indexOf(www.);
   if(-1 != idx) {
   url = url.substring(4);
   }
  
   idx = url.indexOf(./);

   if(-1 != idx) {
   url = url.substring(idx + 2);
   }
  
   //getURL(javascript:alert('/sas/urls/ + url +'););

   getURL(javascript:urchinTracker('/sas/urls/ + url +'););
   }

   Which I call with...

   getURLTracked(http://www.ripcurl.com/;, _blank);

   HTH.

   Glen

Paul Freedman wrote:

The landing-page of our website is comprised of, say, 15 swfs inside one big
swf. We need to track the hits on each of the 'sub' swfs and then navigate
wherever they go.

I am a simple soul with simple needs and desires. All I really wanted to do
was:
public function trakNgo(tag,theUrl){
 // tag=tracking data  theUrl=a url
 getURL(javascript:trackLink('+tag+'););
 getURL(theUrl);
}

But the second getURL bumped the first. The user navigated, but the client
didn't get his tracking.

All the data, tracking and navigation, is fed into the swfs via xml. The
same xml contains content ids, paths, etc. It's all very dynamic and can't
be hard-coded. 


I've just spent four days on this. The last six hours I've been trying to
use ExternalInterface, with no success. My boss is cranky and I'm half mad.
Surely, someone has faced this problem before. How do you track something
and navigate somewhere at (almost) the same time? 


Any help will be greatly appreciated.

- Paul

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RE: [Flashcoders] tracking travelling

2007-09-05 Thread Hairy Dog Digital
Hi Paul,

What about passing the tracking info as part of a hash variable appended to
the URL, such as...

http:www.somedomain.com?tag=somevalue

Then on the landing page have an onLoad handler that parses the document url
and calls the trackLink function?

...Rob 

-Original Message-
From: Paul Freedman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
Sent: Wednesday, September 05, 2007 6:01 PM
To: flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com
Subject: [Flashcoders] tracking  travelling

The landing-page of our website is comprised of, say, 15 swfs inside one big
swf. We need to track the hits on each of the 'sub' swfs and then navigate
wherever they go.

I am a simple soul with simple needs and desires. All I really wanted to do
was:
public function trakNgo(tag,theUrl){
 // tag=tracking data  theUrl=a url
 getURL(javascript:trackLink('+tag+'););
 getURL(theUrl);
}

But the second getURL bumped the first. The user navigated, but the client
didn't get his tracking.

All the data, tracking and navigation, is fed into the swfs via xml. The
same xml contains content ids, paths, etc. It's all very dynamic and can't
be hard-coded. 

I've just spent four days on this. The last six hours I've been trying to
use ExternalInterface, with no success. My boss is cranky and I'm half mad.
Surely, someone has faced this problem before. How do you track something
and navigate somewhere at (almost) the same time? 

Any help will be greatly appreciated.

- Paul

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