Google Tag Manager - Page View

This widget inserts the required google tag manager scripts into the head and body tags in order to send page view data to your container.

Features

1. Initializes google tag manager on the page.
2. Sends either a custom or normal page view event.
3. Can customize what data you would like to send with the page view event, including dynamic data.

Usage

1. Create a new snippet with the page view widget and configure the settings that you'd like to send with each event.
   • Be sure to add your measurement ID to the widget.
2. Add the snippet to each page layout for which you'd like page data to be sent.
3. Configure your GTM container such that you are recording the appropriate information.
4. If using google analytics (GA), configure GTM to send the data to the appropriate property in your configuration tag.
   • For normal page views in GA:
     • Enhanced measurements in GA must be turned on to track page views.
     • The configuration tag in GTM must be set to send the page views.
   • For custom page views in GA:
     • Enhanced measurements in GA must be turned off.
     • The configuration tag in GTM should be set to not send page views.
     • The custom event tag/trigger in GTM must be configured.

Issues, suggestions and feature requests

The connection to GTM was accomplished using this npm module. For any issues, please submit a change request in its corresponding github repository which is linked from the npm page. For any other requests, please add them to this github repository under the appropriate section.

Known limitations and design decisions

1. Pop-ups and modal pop-ups will not currently send a page view because they are considered minor page interactions.
2. Any expression with a datasource under the additional properties will be calculated upon each full page load (browser refresh, initial load, etc.).

Development and contribution

1. Install NPM package dependencies by using: npm install. If you use NPM v7.x.x, which can be checked by executing npm -v, execute: npm install --legacy-peer-deps.
2. Run npm start to watch for code changes. On every change:
   • the widget will be bundled;
   • the bundle will be included in a dist folder in the root directory of the project;
   • the bundle will be included in the deployment and widgets folder of the Mendix test project.