Custom Event Tracking with parameters

[#1]

I'm working on an E-Commerce, and I want to add a Custom Event Goal to determine how many of a particular product was ordered.

I can see how easy it is to track the revenue from an order, but I'm wondering if it's possible to track other custom goals with valued parameters, something like this:

window.optimizely.push(['trackEvent', 'totalProductsBought', {
  count: 3
}]);

There is documentation for how to set up a Custom Event Goal, but I couldn't find anything on passing additional data to the goal, like you can with the revenue goals. 

Is this possible as a custom event goal? Or if not, is it possible to track in another way.

Thanks!

Marc

[#2]

Hi Marc,

Unfortunately, apart from revenue tracking, you can't pass through a value for a custom event. I would suggest instead to use a custom dimension, where you can define values:

window.optimizely.push(['setDimensionValue', 'totalProductsBought', 3]) 

You'll first need to create it before the values can be passed through of course.

[#3]

wrong account - see below

[#4]

Hi Mark!

This is a reat time to also look at passing information to a third party analytics tool via one of optimizely's integrations OR just using `revenue` as the `count` on this one.

Integration Docs: https://help.optimizely.com/hc/en-us/articles/203729580-Introduction-to-Optimizely-Integrations

Code Snippet:

window.optimizely.push(['trackEvent', 'order-placed', {
  revenue: 3 // them revenue count === total products
}]);

Hope that helps!

[#5]

Hi James, 

Thanks for your reply! Will look into using the custom dimensions method, sounds promising!

Marc

[#6]

Hey Tom,

I had thought of this, but we're already tracking revenue as well. It's no biggie though, it was more of a nice-to-have then a necessity!

Thanks,

Marc