How to push DY campaign details to GA via dimensions or metrics?

Issue:

Is it possible to send the DY campaign details to GA via dimensions or metrics instead of events?

Solution:

It is possible to do so. This can be done via the “Custom Analytics Platform” option in the integration page of DY admin.

However there are a few things the customer needs to do know:

1. The customer needs to create the dimension in his GA integration and admin. For more details, they can check GA support article: https://support.google.com/analytics/answer/2709829?hl=en
2. Once it is set, the customer can enable the “Custom Analytics Platform”. In this feature, we provide the customer with the campaign details.
   They will need to write a custom code to use these details in the GA dimensions (in accordance with the dimensions they created in step 1).

This is a custom way of sending DY campaign details to the customer’s GA account and it requires writing code.

For example:

• Integration code example on site:

// Configures custom dimension<Index> to use the custom parameter

// 'dimension_name' for 'GA_MEASUREMENT_ID', where <Index> is a number

// representing the index of the custom dimension.

gtag('config', 'GA_MEASUREMENT_ID', {

  'custom_map': {'dimension<Index>': 'dimension_name'}

});

• Custom Analytics Platform code example:

// Sends the custom dimension to Google Analytics.

gtag('event', 'any_event_name', {'dimension_name': dimension_value});