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Oct 16, 2019 3:49 PM UTC
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Page URLs in Adobe Analytics

Hello,

my website uses history fragments / hashes in URLs, so a typical URL would look like this:

https://www.example.com/portal/#/login

https://www.example.com/portal/#/home

etc

I try to track these URLs in Adobe Analytics. The issue is that in the reports the hash part of the URL is not displayed, it is for some reason truncated.

So I just see https://www.example.com/portal/ and I'm not able to distinguish one page from another.

1) Why is it happening and how to make AA display the whole URLs?

Trying to find a solution to the above issue, I started sending only the hash part to AA:

/login

/home

etc

But I've run into another issue: now I don't see any URLs at all, I just see Other in the reports:

2) Why AA is not showing the URL values I send and how to fix it?

Any hints appreciated

Thanks a lot!

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worldholderAccepted solution
Level 2
Oct 30, 2019 11:19 AM UTC

Hi All,

it seems I found an explanation.

I contacted Adobe ClientCare and they replied the following:

So I've just  requested this query string stripping to be disabled, let's see...

Strangely I couldn’t find any info on this, so it looked to me like a bug in AA.

Thanks all for your suggestions!

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Pablo_Childe
New Participant
Mar 17, 2020 5:58 PM UTC

The pagename variable is populated via data layer.

 

The URL with hash is not collected as paginate unless your code is built to pass it to Pagename variable.

 

Your hash states are they all part of  a Single Page App(looks like it) you may need to pass the URL of of each page in question to an evar.

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jantzen_b
Employee
Mar 17, 2020 5:44 PM UTC

Do any of these replies provide an answer to your original question? If so, please mark the most correct answer. If not, can you provide some additional details to help the community better answer your question.

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Urs_Boller
New Participant
Nov 4, 2019 6:51 PM UTC

well, you are setting the "page URL" field but looking at the "pagename" variable in reporting! those are not the same!

see your screenshot from Launch, there's a field called "Page name", use this to get the "page" variable filled in reporting.

remark: we only overwrite the "Page Name" and leave the "Page URL" as is. that means, the page URL is always the URL the user can see, but we give the "Page name" custom values.

additional remark: a lot of people have a eVar (maybe the most important one for everybody) with exact the same value. the reason are "custom/exit/download links" which don't have a value in the default "page". that means, if you want to see eg. downloads per page, you need an evar with the "Pagename".

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Level 2
Nov 4, 2019 10:49 AM UTC

I was setting up Page URL like this:

Where %HashValue% was returning values after hash symbol like /login, /home etc. 

This resulted into getting Other in the reports instead of the actual values:

In your case, are you working with Page URL or Page Name field?

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Urs_Boller
New Participant
Nov 1, 2019 7:10 PM UTC

where and how do you set the pagename variable? are you sure the "pagename" is correct on the data sent to adobe analytics?

since we use this setup very often and haven't had any problems, it's hard to see/imagine a problem without access to your implementation...

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Level 2
Oct 31, 2019 3:51 PM UTC

Thansk ursboller​that seemed a good idea to me as well, and I did try sending only "after-hash" values like /login,  /home etc.

But I run into another problem, I started seeing just Other instead of the actual vlaues I was sending. Please see my original message, it's better described there.

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kishorepvsk
Level 3
Oct 31, 2019 11:48 AM UTC

Create a data element with window.location.href and it should give you the URL with #

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Urs_Boller
New Participant
Oct 30, 2019 9:52 PM UTC

maybe this is a feature from "old days" where the hashes where used as trigger points to scroll down a page (so basically if the same user has two pageviews and just the hashes changes, it is still the same page)

but since they are now used as "SPA" navigation, this is a completely other use case. now the change of the hash IS a new page.

but: think about NOT changing the settings but changing your implementation: in DTM/Launch override the pagename with only the hash value.

so basically instead of sending the full URL with hast, you override the pagename to only contain the hash (maybe with prefix). at least that's what we do on all our implementations with hash-navigation.

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worldholderAuthorAccepted solution
Level 2
Oct 30, 2019 11:19 AM UTC

Hi All,

it seems I found an explanation.

I contacted Adobe ClientCare and they replied the following:

So I've just  requested this query string stripping to be disabled, let's see...

Strangely I couldn’t find any info on this, so it looked to me like a bug in AA.

Thanks all for your suggestions!

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New Participant
Jun 3, 2021 5:46 PM UTC
I am also seeing the same issue. Were you able to fix it? Any idea where to enable query string stripping?
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Pablo_Childe
New Participant
Oct 29, 2019 8:26 PM UTC

I am going to guess but are all these pages part of a SPA? Single Page app? If so I recommend you look at Direct call rules. They work great and are very efficient for state changes.

Soe trick to follow some SPA you need to disable first time load. You also should make sure you check logic for a user doing a manual reload.

GLTU

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