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Event finder

Event tracking for search

Contents

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search results/ecommerce product list views

Priority high

Examples

• Search results page

Data sent to the dataLayer

• event: search_results
• search_results:
  • ecommerce:
    • items: array
  • event_name: view_item_list
  • results: string
  • sort: string
  • term: string

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search boxes

Priority medium

This event occurs on the search component.

Examples

• Search home page
• Search results page

Data sent to the dataLayer

• event: event_data
• event_data:
  • action: search
  • event_name: search
  • section: the heading that the search box is under
  • text: the search query. The value is sanitised with PII removal, + characters converted to spaces, spaces and new lines trimmed, and downcasing.
  • type: finder
  • url: the url of the page the search box is on

You can also view our complete schemas.

Data reports

• GA4 report for search events (access required)
• Looker studio report for search events (access required)

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ecommerce product clicks

Priority medium

This event occurs on the document_list component.

Examples

• Search results page (click on a result)

Data sent to the dataLayer

• event: search_results
• event_name: view_item_list
• results: string
• search_results:
  • ecommerce:
    • items:
      • index (ecommerce): number
      • item_id: number
      • item_list_name: string
      • item_name: string
• sort: string
• term: string

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filters open/closed

Priority medium

This event occurs on the option_select component.

Examples

• Search results page

Data sent to the dataLayer

• event: event_data
• event_data:
  • action: "opened" when clicked to expand, or "closed" when clicked to collapse
  • event_name: select_content
  • index:
    • index_section: number
    • index_section_count: number
  • section: the filter's heading text
  • text: the filter's heading text
  • type: finder

You can also view our complete schemas.

Data reports

• GA4 report for select_content events (access required)
• Looker studio report for select_content events (access required)

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filter added/removed

Priority low

Examples

• Search results page

Data sent to the dataLayer

• event: event_data
• event_data:
  • action: "select" if added, "remove" if removed, "sort" if the search sort was changed
  • event_name: select_content
  • index:
    • index_section: number
    • index_section_count: number
  • section: the filter's heading
  • text: the filter value the user selected
  • type: finder

You can also view our complete schemas.

Data reports

• GA4 report for select_content events (access required)
• Looker studio report for select_content events (access required)