This article will teach us how to use J+ Track to add new standard variables to our client's tracking plan.
What are the standard variables?
The standard variables are considered those that are usually part of the offered Jellyfish's products. For example, for an e-commerce client that has purchased the “Ecommerce Tracking” product, the event “purchase” is a standard event. With this event there are various variables that are needed to be associated with no matter what. For example, “item_name” is a variable that must be included so it is considered to be a standard variable.
How to add the standard events?
After the creation of the tracking plan we will get into this screen.
By clicking on the blue button that says “+ create an event”, a new window will appear.
In this window we will be able to see the common tracking modules that we are selling to our clients and some others as well.
In this case let's choose "Ecommerce Tracking" - check the tick box and click on "+ Add" button. This will add all the pre-selected events and associated variables onto the your tracking plan.
Now to add a standard variable - click on the "+" button, and with this a new window will open.
In this new window we need to click on the “+ Create variable” button.
And then pick and choose which ever variable you would like to add to your tracking plan from any of the available modules (multiple variables across multiple modules are also possible!) and then click on "+ Add" to add these variables.
Note that the recently added variable are not going to automatically associated with any event. You will need to link them to events manually.
In order to do that, let’s say that I want to associate a new standard variable with one of the events that are in my tracking plan.
I will choose the events that I want to add a new standard variable to by ticking their boxes, and then click the “create new association(s)” button
This action will open a new window, where you will choose the module from which you had selected the variables, and pick the ones you want to associate with the selected event and then click on "Add association". And this will add the standard variables from content tracking to your Ecommerce Tracking plan events.
In case you need further assistance please reach out to the J+ Track team on slack channel #help-jplus-track