Mobile Client Tracker Plugin
This plugin allows the native app data and web view data to be glued together by the analysis engine. It maintains the sessionization from the mobile app to navigated web view pages and to links going back to the web view within the app.
This can be somewhat of a confusing subject as there are four possibilities.
| Data From | Data To | Support By |
|---|---|---|
| App | Browser | MobileBrowser plugin |
| App | Webview | hybridMobuleApp |
| Browser | App | MobileBrowser plugin |
| Webview | App | hybridMobileApp |
The plugin performs two functions. For App to mobile browser interactions, it resets the tags sessionization to match that of the data being sent by a mobile app. Essentially, the mobile app SDK method loads the web page with a query string in the form: http://oracle.com/YouTube/yt_auto_pollmode.html?ora_vtid=f0f73e17-3f4e-4fbe-8167-6cec20a86818a
The plugin used the data sent in the query parameter to overwrite the cookie values in the web view.
From the example above:
ora_vtid=f0f73e17-3f4e-4fbe-8167-6cec20a86818a = id in cookie
The second function is for the plugin to add the sessionization to links going back to the app to ensure the session data in the app (time stamp etc) match that of the web page so click stream data is properly sequenced in the analysis engine. The plugin adds the following parameters to the outgoing links.
ora_vtid = vtid (Visitor id parameter)
dcsref = referrer parameter
ora_id_b_tv = plugin versioning
Enabling the plugin
{
"enable":true,
"acceptDomains":["oracle.com","mobile.com"],
"appDomains":["dom1.net","dom2.net"],
"appIds":["appLink1","appLink2"]
}
Note: acceptDomains is optional. If omitted all domains are permissible, if used only the domain listed will have their cookie re-sessionized.
Plugin options
| Parameters | Description | Data Type | Default Value |
|---|---|---|---|
Enable
|
Enables the plugin | Boolean | false |
acceptDomains
|
This controls what domains the sessionization data will be accepted from. This is an optional parameter, if omitted all domains are permissible, if used only the domain listed will have their cookie re-sessionized. | String | |
appDomains
|
Option to set what link domains the plugin will add the sessionization parameters to when links are clicked on the webpage for the browser-to-app interactions. | String | |
appId
|
This option sets the IDs whose links will have the sessionization parameters appended to them the links are clicked for the browser-to-app interactions. | String |