Using tracking tool 'At Internet' in Vanilla

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edited February 2020 in Help

Opportunity uses a platform called 'At Internet': https://www.atinternet.com/en/ for tracking. They want to know if this information would be available in the code:

- user id

- forum

- category

- subcategory

- tags

- topic id

- topic title

-They would be using SSO

-In their current forum, it seems like a subcategory really is connected to a parent category whereas in Vanilla, I believe that is more just optics and categories are the same level from a code perspective.

Ex: http://forum-auto.caradisiac.com/marques/Peugeot/debut.htm

I asked for a bit more info and they replied:

We use AT Internet which use a javascript call and take information from different variables :

for example on this page : http://forum-auto.caradisiac.com/marques/Peugeot/sujet102658.htm

the tracking tag build this call :

https://ressources.caradisiac.com/cara?s=391133&ts=1581935594411&vtag=5.16.0&ptag=js&r=1920x1080x24x24&re=1920x975&hl=11x33x14&lng=fr-FR&idp=1133138022127&jv=0&at=445896&ac=1&p=peugeot::207::defaut_:__defaillance_direction_assistee__:_prise_en_charge_peugeot--/marques/peugeot/sujet102658.htm--category_inside_topics_normal_topic&s2=82&vrn=1&x12=[FA]&tag=[MA_peugeot]|[97_Membre]|[99_category_inside_topics_normal_topic]&ref=http://forum-auto.caradisiac.com/marques/Peugeot/debut-207.htm

Would they need some special access to be able to get this data for the purpose of their tracking tool?

Comments

  • Unknown
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    User ID they would know from their SSO. Also available in code.

    Forum, category, topic id, and title are all in the URL of the page.

    Tags they'd need to use the API (v1)

    Haven't actually tested it but I'm pretty sure they could get it all front end/API, so no special access.

    Subcategory is as you said.

  • Unknown
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    @Rhys okay but it's a tracking tool so it's some kind of code that lives on the page, I don't think API would would be an option to gather this data.

    I think what they're asking is does this information exist on the frontend of the page, including userID to know which user visited what.

    Can we confirm that with some certainty? This is an Enterprise deal so I am trying to be more specific as we end up having to own these answers.

    So UserID (ForeignID or our UserID?) exists on the frontend of the code?

    Tags do not?

  • Alex Powell
    Alex Powell

    From what I understood, Advanced Analytics needs to be on per Ryan in this thread. I've also added how one could conceivable grab user ID

    https://staff.vanillaforums.com/discussion/813/capturing-user-id-in-google-analytics


    There is also all kinds of data in /profile.json, but as mentioned in this thread, there are extra steps to grab it.

    Hope that helps

  • Unknown
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    API can be used frontend. However that's only needed for tags

    User ID does as a smarty code. Think about the minted example I did for you.

    I can do some tests
  • Alex Powell
    Alex Powell

    Be careful of smarty code, because anything within theme, may not fire on mobile. Pockets are the preferred method.

    Also UserID - of the current user, is most reliable when grabbing from gdn.meta

  • Unknown
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    Agreed. There is also SSO as a way to grab the userid

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