My customer would like us to only track links (via the "s.trackLink()" method) and never to track page views with our Omniture flash implementation in our online video player.
Unfortunately, even when we do not set "s.pageName" or "s.pageURL" values when initializing the flash library, we still see multiple page views registering with a page name of "Other" -- and nowhere in my code or my customer's data does the string "Other" appear, so we assume this is being autogenerated by the Omniture code.
Is there any way to generate metrics through the flash APIs *without* generating page views?
If you are only calling s.trackLink(URL,TYPE,NAME) then you shouldn't be getting any Page Views counted. Can you share more detail / code with us?
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In the file "Omniture_ActionSource_AS3_14_Implementation_Manual.pdf" on page 15, it says:
s.pageName or s.pageURL
The pageName or pageURL variables should be set within the config
section so that ClickMap can overlay data for the appropriate pageName.
If the application is not to be assessed through the browser, then please
add a pageURL.
In normal browser use, leave the pageURL blank. The pageURL will be
automatically set to the page URL of the browser (this is a good thing).
In our setup we leave both of these variables blank, but the documentation implies that you're setting those variables automatically.
If I _DO_ set a pageName variable, the page views track the pageName value that we set on the object. If I don't set a pageName variable, we still get page views with a page name of "Other".
I don't know if you all have the ability to look up customer data, but the report can be found here: https://sc2.omniture.com/sc14/reports/index.html?rp=period_from|05%2F06%2F10%3Bperiod_to|05%2F12%2F10%3Bperiod|1100406D7%3Brange_period|1%3Bcompare|%3Bcomparison|&r;=Report.MostPopularPages&a;=Report.Standard&ssSession;=eea3cc852491b336e06d9ac39751d19a&jpj;=63191886421346
BTW, I am actually calling s.trackLink( url, "o", name, propObj ) where I'm putting the properties on an object and passing it as the fourth Action Script param rather than trying to put the prop values onto the "s" variable before the call and then remove them after the call. The prop data shows up correctly in the site catalyst reports.
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Oh, however, if you look here:
https://sc2.omniture.com/sc14/reports/index.html?rp=period_from|05%2F10%2F10%3Bperiod_to|05%2F12%2F10%3Bperiod|1100410D3%3Brange_period|1%3Bcompare|%3Bcomparison|&r;=Report.ClickMap&a;=Report.Standard&ssSession;=eea3cc852491b336e06d9ac39751d19a&jpj;=54997149142025
You can see large amounts of clickmap data being tracked against the "Other" pageName.
Perhaps the ActionSource code isn't obeying my request to disable click map tracking?
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You should look at using the data insertion API. I have had good success using this approach and it does not inflate page views.
-Rudi
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