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How to capture the current date/time into a eVar

  • July 14, 2017
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Hello All,

I want to capture and save the current date into a eVar which can be used for reporting and analysis purpose later. I can see that date/time into Adobe debugger. Could anybody please help me to capture the same into a eVar.

Also this timestamp is showing in different time zone even though I have selected my current time zone in report suite settings. Please guide me if this can also be changed to proper timezone.

Regards,

Manish

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    Best answer by EricMatisoff

    Here's a great start for you: DTM Examples

    It will give you all the details on 'setting a global s object' which DTM does not do out of the box. You can then follow my instructions here for creating the doPlugins area:

    https://www.searchdiscovery.com/blog/adobe-dtm-update-let-adobe-manage-measurement-library/

    You'll want to set up time parting in doPlugins.

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    EricMatisoff
    EricMatisoff
    Employee
    June 4, 2018

    Hi marion69081899​ - good news! There are now pre-built time parting dimensions in Analysis Workspace! So you won't even need to add this plugin. More details here:

    Time-Parting Dimensions

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    marion69081899
    New Participant
    June 4, 2018

    Hello Everyone !

    I've been trying to do this, but since the s.code is not accessible in my implementation, we don't know where to put the plugin.

    We have tryed in a data element but the s.code is not accessible ( the error is 's not defined') .

    Should we put this on the custom code part of the Tool Definition ?


    We don't want to go to every rule we have an add this , so if someone knows something please some help would be appreciated !

    Cheers !

    EricMatisoff
    EricMatisoff
    Employee
    July 15, 2017

    Agreed with saurabh kumar​ - time parting plugin is the way to go. I also recommend using Classifications to break it out by:

    Day of Week, Month, AM v PM, Weekday vs Weekend.

    We've had some customers even break it out by Business Day vs non-Business Day. This can be especially interesting for B2B companies. Enjoy!

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      Saurabh_Kumar1
      New Participant
      July 14, 2017

      Hello Manish,

         One solution is to use getTimeParting plugin & you can get the time in your desired TimeZone captured in an eVar.

      var tpA = s.getTimeParting('n','-7');

      s.eVarX = tpA.split('|')[0]; // time at minute level

      Reference documentation - getTimeParting​

      Date / Date range you can always choose for the report whenever you run them in Adobe Analytics.

      Regards,

      Saurabh Kumar.

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