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There are three components required to use Google Analytics to capture usage from your SimplyE service:
- A Google Analytics Account so you can establish tracking properties via its collector API
- A Google Analytics web (not app+web) property in your Google Analytics account to so you can create unique tracking ID for circulation and book-related events from Circulation Manager
- NOTE: SimplyE does not use app-related Google tracking. All events are sent into the circulation manager database before being sent on to Google, in order to preserve patron privacy.
- Custom dimensions configured for the respective Google Analytics account and tracking property code for registering event metadata
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See Google Analytics Help for quick start and how-to guides for using and administering Google Analytics. |
Before getting started
The circulation manager can be used for 3 specific uses cases that may affect how you want to configure your Google Analytics integration.
- Single system / Single Tenant - in this uses case you will only need one tracking code for your library.
- Consortia - in this use case you may only need on tracking code, but need to leverage the "library" dimension measure individual member library circulation events
- Multi-tenant - in this use case, you may be hosting multiple libraries in a circulation manager that are of no relationship to one another in terms of ebook service so you will want a single Google Analytics tracking code for the specific library.
Create a Property for SimplyE in your Google Analytics account
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Creating the correct property on Google Analytics requires you to:
- Click the gear icon/the "Admin" menu item on the bottom left
- Click the blue "Create Property" button in the top of the middle column
- Choose "Web" at the top of the screen, not Apps or Apps + Web
- Scroll down and click "Continue"
- For "Website Name" type "SimplyE" or a variant that will indicate to your team the data you'll be collecting
- For "Website URL" it should be the URL of your circulation manager, which you can get from your hosting provider
- Click "Create"
- Next Click on Views and scroll down until you see a check box under "Bot Filtering".
Uncheck this (Google sets it by default to checked, but it can filter events from your cric manager)then click "Save"
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To capture dimension data from the SimplyE Circulation Manager in your Google Analytics account, you must set up a property "Web Property" in Google Analytics for the SimplyE Circulation Manager.
Reminder: we do not use "Google tags Tags" to track any elements in the mobile app itself; everything is captured by the Circulation Manager and exported .to Google Analytics through the Measurement Protocol API v1 (learn more the Google Measurement Protocol)
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WARNINGIn some instances, adding Dimensions incorrectly will require you to start from scratch. Please read all the instructions first and add the Dimensions carefully, in exactly the order listed. |
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