Comments on: How To Track Events in Flash Movies using WebTrends

By: Steve Fleckenstein

Steve Fleckenstein — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 15:42:22 +0000

Useful:How To Track Events in Flash Movies using WebTrends http://bit.ly/uhuUE #analytics #flash

By: David

David — Fri, 17 Apr 2009 18:58:46 +0000

Media: You could add the page location to the event tracking e.g. for WebTrends:

function myFlashEvent(eventDescription, eventValue){

	// Get the page location
	var pageLocation = location.href.substr( (location.protocol + '://' +location.host).length - 1);

	// Register Event with WebTrends
	dcsMultiTrack(
		'DCS.dcsuri', eventValue,                  // name/value pair for URL
		'WT.ti', 'FlashEvent:' + pageLocation + '/' + eventDescription  // name/value pair for page title
	);

	// Go to URL
	document.location.href = eventValue;
}

...or for Google Analytics:

function myFlashEvent(eventDescription, eventValue){

	// Get the page location
	var pageLocation = location.href.substr( (location.protocol + '://' +location.host).length - 1);

	// Register event with Google Analytics
	pageTracker._trackEvent(
		'Flash', 'Link',
		eventDescription, pageLocation + '/' + eventValue
	);

	// Go to URL
	document.location.href = eventValue;
}

This would mean that the flash could be exactly the same, but now you'd also be tracking a combination of the web page location and the flash event value.

By: Media

Media — Thu, 16 Apr 2009 20:03:10 +0000

If I were to place the same Flash movie on two different locations and would like to track these two Flash movies separately, how would I do this? Do I need to create two separate instances of the Flash movie and have two separate function parameters for the movies?

Appreciate your help.

By: webtrends hacks

webtrends hacks — Sat, 14 Mar 2009 05:39:25 +0000

Track Events in Flash Movies http://tinyurl.com/bjtt8z

By: aknecht

aknecht — Tue, 10 Mar 2009 10:54:47 +0000

Good article on tracking Flash events in both #WebTrends and Google Analytics – http://is.gd/mGvG #wa