So I am trying to add product impressions to my site by following this article:
https://developers.google.com/tag-manager/enhanced-ecommerce#product-impressions
I have created a bit of logic to fire off the required data like this:
import { getCurrentInstance } from "@vue/composition-api";
import { useGtm } from "@gtm-support/vue2-gtm";
export function useTrackProductImpressions(items: any[]) {
console.log("trying to track products", items);
if (!items?.length) return;
const gtm = useGtm();
if (!gtm.enabled()) return;
const dataLayer = window.dataLayer;
if (!dataLayer) return;
console.log(items);
const products = items.map((product, i) => {
const retailers = product.retailers ?? [];
return {
name: product.title, // Name or ID is required.
id: product.id,
price: retailers[0].price,
brand: product.brand,
category: product.categorySlug,
variant: product.variant,
position: i,
};
});
const instance = getCurrentInstance();
const route = instance.proxy.$route;
const routeName = route.meta?.title ?? route.name;
dataLayer.push({ ecommerce: null }); // Clear the previous ecommerce object.
dataLayer.push({
event: "productClick",
ecommerce: {
click: {
actionField: { list: routeName }, // Optional list property.
products,
},
},
// eventCallback: function () {
// document.location = productObj.url;
// },
});
}
This seems pretty normal and I have a click version of this that works fine. The problem is, the click event can be fired when a link is clicked, this one needs to fire when the view loads, I assume in setup.
So, I have my apollo logic:
import { useQuery, useResult } from "@vue/apollo-composable";
import * as listProducts from "@graphql/api/query.products.gql";
export const defaultParameters: {
identifier?: string;
searchTerm: string;
itemsToShow: number;
page: number;
filters: any;
facets: string[];
} = {
searchTerm: "*",
itemsToShow: 12,
page: 1,
filters: [],
facets: ["Criteria/Attribute,count:100"],
};
export function useSearchProducts(params) {
const { result, loading, error, fetchMore } = useQuery(listProducts, params);
const response = useResult(result, null, (data) => data.searchProducts);
return { response, loading, error, fetchMore };
}
And from my setup I invoke like this:
const { category } = toRefs(props);
const page = ref(1);
const skip = ref(0);
const orderBy = ref([
{
key: "InVenue",
value: "desc",
},
]);
const params = computed(() => {
const filters = createFilters("CategorySlug", [category.value.slug]);
const request = createRequest(
defaultParameters,
page.value,
filters,
orderBy.value
);
return { search: request };
});
const { response, loading, error} = useSearchProducts(params);
Which I can then return to the template like this:
return { response, loading, error };
Now I have done this, I want to add some tracking, so initially I did this:
watch(response, (result) => useTrackProductImpressions(result?.value?.items));
But it was always undefined
.
I added console log on result
within the watch method and it is always undefined
.
So I changed to this:
const track = computed(() => {
useTrackProductImpressions(response.value.items);
});
But this never gets invoked (I assume because it has no return value and I don't use it in the template).
My question is, which is the best way to do what I am attempting? Am I missing something or am I on the write track?
I think I was close, I just used the computed property to return my products like this:
const products = computed(() => {
if (!response.value) return [];
useTrackProductImpressions(response.value.items);
return response.value.items;
});
const total = computed(() => {
if (!response.value) return 0;
return response.value.total;
});
const hasMoreResults = computed(() => {
if (!response.value) return false;
return response.value.hasMoreResults;
});
return {
products,
loading,
error,
total,
hasMoreResults,
skip,
more,
search,
};