Google and Analytics and Javascript

Jul 24, 2012

Hi there

I have a storyline setup, working well. I can track peoples journey with it in general terms by just tagging the HTML page with Analytics code, but what I really want to do is send events from the storyline back to analytics.

Can I use the 'Execute Javascript' function to do anything like this? Used to be something in flash which did something like this, essentially a AJAXy event that sent code back to the browser on an action - is there anyway of doing anything similar?

If not why is execute javascript there I'm guessing it's a bridge to the online option, but we are nowhere near big enough top justify that cost!

13 Replies

Allen O'Leary
Author

over 11 years ago07/24/12 at 8:05 am (UTC)

PS Great product!

Russell Still

over 11 years ago07/24/12 at 8:34 am (UTC)

Doesn't answer your question, but for others looking for traffic info on their projects, I use statcounter.com. Just insert the javascript into the story.html file and it works like a champ.

James Grafe

almost 11 years ago07/17/13 at 11:53 am (UTC)

Picking up this idea a year later....

I have successfully put Google Analytics code in the story.html and story_html5.html files. What I'm interested in is being able to track every page/screen in the course. I tried putting a trigger on each screen using Execute JavaScript action, but am not getting page-level data in Google Analytics.

In GA I'm looking in Content > Site Content > All Pages and Content Drilldown.

Jade Kelsall

over 10 years ago11/20/13 at 1:14 pm (UTC)

Could you use the web object feature to embed the GA code into each slide?

Ashley Terwilliger-Pollard
Staff

over 10 years ago11/20/13 at 1:29 pm (UTC)

Thanks Jade for chiming in here, although I'm not certain that James is still subscribed to this thread so you may want to send him a private message.

Jade Kelsall

over 10 years ago11/20/13 at 2:01 pm (UTC)

Ok - I'm going to try it out myself first as this is exactly what I need to do! I'll let him know if it works

Ashley Terwilliger-Pollard
Staff

over 10 years ago11/21/13 at 5:13 am (UTC)

Sounds good Jade, thanks for the update.

Norm Cousineau

9 years ago03/26/15 at 6:11 pm (UTC)

I do something similar...keep in mind that Google Analytics says it can take up to 24 hours to show results!

Mark H

over 8 years ago09/04/15 at 10:49 pm (UTC)

I built a small lib to help with this. See here...

https://community.articulate.com/discussions/articulate-storyline/google-analytics-in-storyline#reply-298362

Leslie McKerchie
Staff

over 8 years ago09/08/15 at 1:21 pm (UTC)

Thanks for sharing Mark!

Tracy Livingston

over 6 years ago11/15/17 at 9:42 pm (UTC)

I'm hoping there's an update to this request and someone can confirm we can track action level functionality via Google, or other method via JavaScript