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alv123456
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Aug 8, 2018 8:31 AM UTC
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Can referrer value be overwrittten?

Hi!

Since we are having a lot of problems with the referrer report dealing with blank values, we want to override the referrer value in our GTM: whenever there is no referrer, we write a String value.

However it doesn't show up in referrer report. Is referrer report only accepting blank or URLs?

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    Hyder_Ziaee
    Hyder_ZiaeeAccepted solution
    Employee
    Aug 9, 2018 3:20 PM UTC

    Yes, spaces and other non-URL characters will be removed if they are set in the variable.

    Had an issue where I noticed this.

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    Hyder_Ziaee
    Hyder_ZiaeeAccepted solution
    Employee
    Aug 9, 2018 3:20 PM UTC

    Yes, spaces and other non-URL characters will be removed if they are set in the variable.

    Had an issue where I noticed this.

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      alv123456Author
      Level 5
      Aug 9, 2018 7:23 AM UTC

      Unfortunately we don't, we create the imag tags by ourselves and send them to adobe. We tried to overwrite the "r=" parameter with a string (not an URL), but it won't populate the reports. So my assumption is that the value must have the structure an URL?

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      Gigazelle
      Gigazelle
      Employee
      Aug 8, 2018 4:25 PM UTC

      If you're using an s_code implementation, s.referrer would be the variable you'd want to overwrite to ensure it is populated.

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