Re: Re: About to send to the dev list, thoughts?

Good to know what the options are.  Thanks Blair!

On Friday, June 7, 2013 1:45:49 AM UTC-4, Blair McK wrote:
>
> The download tracking is meant to handle the problem where admins in 
> Google Analytics itself can't tell what a particular download is for, based 
> on the tracked url. By tracking /download/some-file instead, it's easier to 
> read. The downside of that is that FarCry itself can no longer recognise 
> the statistic. 
>
> I've updated the plugin so that it should be able to report on 
> download.cfm links, which gives you a couple of options:
>
> If you're willing to give up readable URLs in google analytics:
> - replace the existing download tracking event:
>   
> $j('a[href*="download.cfm"]').off("click.track").on("click.track",function(){ 
> $j.ga.trackURL(this.href); });
>
> if you want readable URLs in google analytics AND reporting in the FarCry 
> webtop:
> - add an attribute to every download link: 
>   data-trackurl="#application.fc.lib.ga.getTrackableURL(objectid=fileid)#"
> - replace the existing download tracking event:
>   
> $j('a[href*="download.cfm"]').off("click.track").on("click.track",function(){ 
> $j.ga.trackURL($j(this).data("trackurl")); });
>
> Blair
>
>
> On Wed, Jun 5, 2013 at 10:20 PM, Sean Coyne <[email protected]<javascript:>
> > wrote:
>
>> Thanks Blair.  I do see the download in the analytics data, but it seems 
>> the webtop charts don't seem to recognize it.  The charts all show zeroes
>>
>>
>> On Tuesday, June 4, 2013 5:27:59 PM UTC-4, Blair McK wrote:
>>
>>> The plugin will automatically track /download.cfm links using the link 
>>> title or text. If you have links that don't use that URL you need to add a 
>>> class to them, like "dmFile".
>>>
>>> Blair
>>>
>>>
>>> On Tue, Jun 4, 2013 at 11:37 PM, Sean Coyne <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>
>>>> So to track dmFile downloads do i need to add a call to the <ga:track 
>>>> ... /> custom tag in download.cfm?
>>>>  
>>>>
>>>> On Tuesday, June 4, 2013 9:21:54 AM UTC-4, Sean Coyne wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> Thanks Blair!
>>>>>
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