The Dynamic Object IDs Plug-in dynamically adds an object ID to the click thru URL. You can see it using the debugger. It is designed to improve the function of the Clickmap.

Let’s take a look at an example. From the home page of this site, there are 3 links that take you to the Contact page. I click the last one on the page, then open the debugger on the page I land on. Here you can see that the click thru URL has been appended with the number of the order that it happened to appear in on the page. So now when I have multiple links on a single page each one is easily spotted in the debugger, even though they all have the same anchor text and click thru URL.

Now what do we get? If you look at the clickmap report, Site Content>Links>ClickMap, you will now see a number attached to each URL.

Now you know exactly which link was clicked.

Here is how I have it implemented on this site. Before the function s_doPlugins(s) I include the code:

/* DynamicObjectIDs config */
function s_getObjectID(o) {
	var ID=o.href;
	return ID;
}
s.getObjectID=s_getObjectID

Then within the s_doPlugins(s) function, I include:

/* To setup Dynamic Object IDs */
s.setupDynamicObjectIDs();

And finally in the Plug-ins section I have the plug-in code itself.

/*
 * DynamicObjectIDs
 */
s.setupDynamicObjectIDs=new Function(""
+"var s=this;if(!s.doi){s.doi=1;if(s.apv>3&&(!s.isie||!s.ismac||s.apv"
+">=5)){if(s.wd.attachEvent)s.wd.attachEvent('onload',s.setOIDs);else"
+" if(s.wd.addEventListener)s.wd.addEventListener('load',s.setOIDs,fa"
+"lse);else{s.doiol=s.wd.onload;s.wd.onload=s.setOIDs}}s.wd.s_semapho"
+"re=1}");
s.setOIDs=new Function("e",""
+"var s=s_c_il["+s._in+"],b=s.eh(s.wd,'onload'),o='onclick',x,l,u,c,i"
+",a=new Array;if(s.doiol){if(b)s[b]=s.wd[b];s.doiol(e)}if(s.d.links)"
+"{for(i=0;i<s.d.links.length;i++){l=s.d.links[i];c=l[o]?''+l[o]:'';b"
+"=s.eh(l,o);z=l[b]?''+l[b]:'';u=s.getObjectID(l);if(u&&c.indexOf('s_"
+"objectID')<0&&z.indexOf('s_objectID')<0){u=s.repl(u,'\"','');u=s.re"
+"pl(u,'\\n','').substring(0,97);l.s_oc=l[o];a[u]=a[u]?a[u]+1:1;x='';"
+"if(c.indexOf('.t(')>=0||c.indexOf('.tl(')>=0||c.indexOf('s_gs(')>=0"
+")x='var x=\".tl(\";';x+='s_objectID=\"'+u+'_'+a[u]+'\";return this."
+"s_oc?this.s_oc(e):true';if(s.isns&&s.apv>=5)l.setAttribute(o,x);l[o"
+"]=new Function('e',x)}}}s.wd.s_semaphore=0;return true");

To see this code in the s_code file running this site, you can check it out here.

Ok great. Now what else can we do with this plug-in? Lets say I want to track how many contact form submissions I received from clicking the third Contact link that appears on the Home Page? Well I could add a custom onclick function. I could add a tracking code on the end of the click thru URL. But how can I use this new plug-in to track this?

Recently there was a post on the Omniture blog about using Dynamic Variables. Using these variables we can now grab the value of oid, which is the click thru URL with the new object id added to it, and you can get the pid which is the page the click happened on. I have it set up on this site:

s.prop20=s.eVar20="D=oid";
s.prop22=s.eVar22="D=pid";

Now with a simple subrelation I can get what link was clicked on what page and what events occurred, all without adding any additional code to the page.

Enjoy!

Not using the s.server variable yet? Get on it!