Advanced programmatic event triggers?

  • Hi,

    I just started using your plugin after I have been successfully using GTM for years to rely on browser events to measure my goals.

    Over the years I have set up some pretty awesome advanced programmatic event triggers in GTM which I can’t reproduce accurately with the basic events offered by your plugin (Free or Pro).

    E.g. when a chat session starts or a successful (!) form submission is completed, I use Javascript window.dataLayer.push() to send out an event. This triggers a tag in GTM and fires FB ‘Contact’. Its both awesome and very efficient!

    How am I supposed to recreate these triggers with your plugin? Does Pixelyoursite (Free or Pro) has a event listener or even better: an Javascript function available for developers?

    I can’t possibly be the only developer struggling with this, and I am looking forward to your thoughts so I can replace GTM entirely.

    Thanks.

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  • Plugin Author PixelYourSite

    (@pixelyoursite)

    Hello,

    You can see all the available events when you configure a new event on the plugin’s dedicated page:

    Page visit with URL contain and match condition – free and paid

    Clicks on HTML links, clicks on CSS selectors, mouse over CSS Selector, page scroll, post type.

    On top of that, the plugin automatically fires custom or standard events for most common actions.

    Here’s a video about events: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kEp5BDg7dP0

    And here’s one about automatic events: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NsJWjB0wnGY

    Thread Starter Erik Molenaar

    (@erikmolenaar)

    Thanks, but I think you misunderstood me.

    Page visit with URL contain and match condition – free and paid

    Clicks on HTML links, clicks on CSS selectors, mouse over CSS Selector, page scroll, post type.

    I know, but again: these basic triggers are way too basic for my custom events.

    As a GTM developer, I got used writing all kind of fancy triggers myself. For example: when a chat session starts or a successful (!) form submission is submitted, I use Javascript window.dataLayer.push() to send out an event for GTM to trigger a contact or lead event.

    So I would like to programmatically add custom events, e.g. code the triggers myself to my heart’s desires and Pixelyoursite picks these up and sends the appropriate event to all platforms.

    I can’t be the only developer struggling with this. And I don’t think this is possible (yet) with your plugin, but adding this killer feature would make it a 100% replacement for GTM for server-side events!

    I could use this functionality as well. It could work the same as when you set up custom event trigger in GTM.

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