setup for User-ID coverage reporting and User-ID view in Google Analytics

Hi,

All references to the gtag() tracking codes are useless if you are using Google Tag Manager. With GTM, you need to do this in another way:

#1 Make sure you enabled the plugin option to add the ID of the logged in user into the data layer
#2 Create a new Data Layer Variable within GTM and enter visitorId into the Data Layer Variable Name field (make sure there is no default value set)
#3 Open your Google Analytics Settings variable
#4 Under “More settings” -> “Fields to set” add a new line and enter userId into the left part of the table and select the variable created in #2 into the right part of the table

Publish your changes and you are done, you should now see traffic in your user ID enabled view.

Thomas,

I’ve followed your instructions and have been able to install and see the User ID View now. However, I’m seeing ClientID’s that I don’t recognize.

A) How do I find out a particular users ClientID on my WordPress site? I can find UserID (we’re using a platform where members login), but not ClientID. The goal is to be able to take a particular user in our membership site and then find them in Google Analytics and see their activity.

Thanks,

Erik

Hi,

In terms of Google Analytics, User ID and Client ID are two different dimensions:
* User ID is what you can report to GA using your own data
* Client ID is what GA is generating for each visitor in each browser they are using

When you refer to Client ID, are you referring to the data that GA generates?

hi @duracelltomi,

I’ve followed your instructions and have been able to install and see the User ID in tag manager preview mode. But unable to see traffic in user ID enabled view.

Are there any other modifications/settings I need to do in analytics or in the tag manager?

Please guide me through this.

Thanks,
Rohit

Sorry to bother you, my bad. It’s working now.

Hi All,
Hope all are safe

Need help on creating User ID via GTM

I am using a data layer to create UserId. Needed to know how to add data layer code?
Pasting the code below is the right method? please suggest

example :- <!– Google Tag Manager –>

<script>dataLayer = [{‘userID’: ‘9507111’}];</script>
<script>(function(w,d,s,l,i){w[l]=w[l]||[];w[l].push({‘gtm.start’:
new Date().getTime(),event:’gtm.js’});var f=d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0],
j=d.createElement(s),dl=l!=’dataLayer’?’&l=’+l:”;j.async=true;j.src=
‘https://www.googletagmanager.com/gtm.js?id=’+i+dl;f.parentNode.insertBefore(j,f);
})(window,document,’script’,’dataLayer’,’XXXXXXX’);</script>
<!– End Google Tag Manager –>

• This reply was modified 4 years, 9 months ago by rakesh7111.

Hi @rakesh7111,

Please open a new thread next time if you have a new question.
If you are using this plugin (GTM4WP) then the GTM container code will be added to your site via the plugin.

The data layer will be also initialized if you turn on the visitor ID in plugin settings under Basic data->Visitors

User ID will be added into the data layer with the variable name: visitorId
https://gtm4wp.com/how-to-articles/what-is-in-the-datalayer-when-using-this-wordpress-plugin/data-about-the-logged-in-user-on-the-site

Hi @duracelltomi

I have view for USER ID and getting data very well. But I consufed to match which visitorID belongs to which visitor on WordPress USer lists. For example I can see 670, 567 as visitorIDs on my analytics account in user view but when I check wordpress all users there is no visitor ID to match and understand which users belong to which visitor ID.

Thank you in advance,

Gulcin

Hi @gulcinkarahan90,

Next time, please open a new thread instead of posting into an already closed topic.
User ID should be the ID of the user in WordPress. I am not sure why this does not match in your case.