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Can I register an event or goal through an API from Javascript?
Yes you can. In this post http://ggullentops.blogspot.be/2016/02/integrating-addthis-with-sitecore-goals.html I described how you can trigger a goal from AddThis (so actually using javascript to call ...
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Can I register an event or goal through an API from Javascript?
There are two ways to register goals from JavaScript that I am aware of:
Federated Experience Manager
Sitecore FXM allows you to make visits and trigger events from external websites.
There's an ...
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What is the correct way to set a page load goal?
Rules are used for something else. You are correct to associate goal instead. Also make sure to deploy goal.
1) Associate goal with an item
To associate a goal with an item, from the Sitecore ...
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How do I execute an action when a user clicks a link in an EXM email?
I think the part you might be missing is that actual action of clicking a link in an EXM sent email message is that the link goes to a page that sits outside of the Sitecore item structure. That page ...
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Displaying custom event data in Experience Profile
The Goal data is not automatically show in experience profile. So you would need to do some SPEAK UI editing.
You can add more columns to the Goal View tab in the Experience Profile by adding new ...
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Refreshing KeyBehaviorCache after triggering a goal
You can test if a goal has been triggered with this code. It looks in KBC and the current session.
public bool IfGoalAlreadyExists(ID goalId)
{
// this will get all the goals that have ever ...
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Is it possible to associate goal triggering on button click without code?
Honestly I was looking into this myself too. And whereas Mark says that this is not possible that is (for as far as I am aware) still true.
However, I don't agree that you should look whether or not ...
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Is it possible to associate goal triggering on button click without code?
No.
You can only associate goals to items. Described here: Associate a goal with an item
But I would add; you're likely also thinking about this wrong. The goal you have, is not "the user presses ...
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How to view triggered goals
You can see it 2 different ways :
If it is pagebased goal then goto that item in sitecore and then click analyze panel and then click on reports and select page - goals and events
By going to the ...
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Tracker.Current is not initialized when accessed from another web portal
Tracker.Current relies on HTTP Session Context existing. Web API does not instantiate a Session object, thereby making Tracker completely unusable.
You can only use Tracker in the context of a Web ...
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How to check if a Goal with specific ID has been ever registered for the contact?
Slow approach
You could load all previous visits using this code:
IEnumerable<IInteractionData> visits = Tracker.Current.Contact.LoadHistorycalData(visitsToLoad);
Then you could check every ...
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How to check whether goal has been triggered in mongoDB collection
If you just want to validate if the page event was saved, you can run a MongoDB query against Interactions collection:
db.Interactions.find({"$and": [
{"Pages":{"$elemMatch":
{"PageEvents"...
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What is the correct way to set a page load goal?
Since you mention rules, if you do want to introduce rules so that you only trigger goal registration if other conditions are true then you can extend the processItem pipeline defined in Sitecore....
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Trigger Goal if Checkbox is Checked in Contact Form
There is no condition-based submit action in Sitecore Forms yet but you can achieve this by adding your custom action or using conditional logic for your forms. I have not tried this yet but I will ...
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Programmatically getting list of goals triggered through xConnect for certain contact
Found answer after going through xConnect documentation more thoroughly.
Here is the code that you can use to get all goals for contact:
using (Sitecore.XConnect.Client.XConnectClient client = ...
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How can I connect two goals to a page test?
If you go to your page test definition in the content editor under /sitecore/system/Marketing Control Panel/Test Lab after the draft has been saved, you can see that there is a Conversion field that ...
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Sitecore personalization rule "goal was triggered during a past or current interaction" not being triggered
After spending some time with the question asker, we determined the root issue.
The root problem statement was that Personalization wasn't occuring unless the user in the above example refreshed ...
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Prevent repetition from triggering goal
Assumption
Once the goal has been triggered by a visitor, the visitor cannot trigger the same goal.
Solution
If you are triggering the goal programmatically, you can check if the user has already ...
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Programmatically triggering goal while not triggering Path Analyzer
You need to do two things to make the goal show up and the API not be in the tracker. As you said in your question, you need to cancel the current call. I do this with a little cotroller atribute I ...
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How can I find out Triggered Goal on Sitecore Item
When does is it written to xDB
Like the other answers said, it is written when the session closes. The time it takes to be written is in the web.config, in the session config. In the xml below, it is ...
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Compare Goals engagement Points in Personalization rules in Sitecore
You will require to implement a custom rule as there are no rules OOTB Sitecore that allows the comparison of total engagement value of goals. The current rules about the Sitecore goals are mainly ...
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Trigger goal on dynamic item binding
Sitecore 9.x
When you call the API, you must remember to include security so that the cookies go with the request. Mainly the analytics cookie.
In the code below the GetPageForApi(), if requested, ...
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Assign Goals & Events to XDB contact on Submit of Contact-US Form in SItecore 9.1
from your code getContact != null, if this condition is false, then you are creating new contact which is incorrect.
Contact contact = new Sitecore.XConnect.Contact(new ContactIdentifier(...
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How to trigger a goal programmatically out of web request?
Goal registration heavily relies on the current session. I am not aware of a good way to properly register a goal outside of actual session, page, and request being available.
To enroll a contact ...
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Measure engagement on a per product basis
You need to set the goals on the products. Once the user triggers the goal on the product, this is recorded into MongoDB at the user session end.
Sitecore stores those data into the PageEvents which ...
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How to set a goal that only counts two specific pages visited in succession?
There is an easy way to do this by editing the link of your call to action in sitecore.
In the querystring value of the link, enter in: sc_trk=goalname
(so if your goal is named "LinkAction1" , then ...
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Displaying custom event data in Experience Profile
In addition to my blog post Jarmo recommended, I released the code as a Marketplace module you can install into Sitecore to display the Custom Data of the Goal
https://marketplace.sitecore.net/...
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How is the top assets by value per visit report actually calculated in Sitecore?
It's the total engagement value attributed to the asset that occurs after site visitors have been exposed to the asset, divided by the number of visits to (exposure to) the asset.
The value is ...
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How to check whether goal has been triggered in mongoDB collection
You can use Robo 3T tool.
Next example shows how to find goal by name in Interactions collection.
db.getCollection('Interactions').find({Pages : {$elemMatch: {PageEvents:{$elemMatch:{Name:'...
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Refreshing KeyBehaviorCache after triggering a goal
Key behavior cache (KBC) is read-only and is loaded when a session starts. KBC is updated when session is submitted and is not meant to store live data by design.
You could try combining it with ...
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