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How do you add triggers to GTM?
Create a trigger from a tag definition
- Click Triggering.
- Click Add.
- Click Trigger Configuration.
- Select the trigger type you would like to create.
- Complete the setup for the selected trigger type.
What is tag and trigger in GTM?
Tag: A tag is code that send data to a system such as Google Analytics. Trigger: A trigger listens for certain events, such as clicks, form submissions, or page loads. When an event is detected that matches the trigger definition, any tags that reference that trigger will fire.
How do I make an event tag in GTM?
How to track Google Analytics Events in Google Tag Manager
- Log into Google Tag Manager.
- Select “Tags” from the left-hand side.
- Create a new tag.
- Select Universal Analytics from Tag Type.
- Set your Google Analytics Tracking ID.
- Choose “Event” for the track type.
- Set your Event Category, Action, Label and Value as desired*
What is a trigger group in GTM?
Trigger Group is the newest trigger type you can add to a tag in Google Tag Manager. It allows you to establish dependencies between multiple triggers, not firing the tag until every trigger in the group has fired at least once.
What is GTM formSubmit?
If there’s more than one form on the page, which is very often the case, you’ll find it hard to determine just which form was sent when a submit button is clicked. You see, gtm. formSubmit is fired when the form wrapper is sent, and the submissions could have been initiated from any one of the actual forms on the page.
What is regex in GTM?
The “matches regex” option allows you to implement regular expressions in Google Tag Manager for matching text patterns. Regex is useful for expressing more complex types of rules such as “fire the tag when the URL starts with A and ends in B or C.”
How do I use Google Tag Manager’s form submission trigger?
Use Google Tag Manager’s form submission trigger to fire a tag when a form has been sent. To configure a form submission trigger: Click Triggers New. Click Trigger Configuration and choose the Form Submission trigger type.
How do I create a trigger in GTM?
In GTM, triggers are an integral part of a tag creation process. So you can not create a tag without first creating a corresponding trigger. There are two methods for creating a trigger in GTM. One is while you are creating a new tag and one is through the triggers menu:
How do I get the name of an event in GTM?
If there’s an ‘event’ key in the message, the instance gets the name of the event (unless it’s one of the three default GTM events, see below) or just “Message” if there’s no ‘event’ key in the command: So if there’s an ‘event’ key in the push (), a data layer helper object activates and goes through all the active triggers in your container.
Is the new Google Tag Manager guide an update to GTM?
It’s not an update to the guide I wrote for the previous GTM version: Google Tag Manager: Playing By The Rules, and many of the concepts covered therein are still valid. Triggers introduce many new features and functionalities (a new way of doing auto-event tracking, for example), which require special attention.