external_url_clicked (deprecated)

Art. no. 216207873

Note that this event is deprecated and will be removed in future versions.

Trigger mechanism

This event is triggered when a user open a link to as web page (http or https) that is hosted on an external web site.

This may occur when:

a box is clicked in a replica publication page, if the box is associated with a url
a page component of type “banner” is clicked, if the banner is associated with a link

Dimensions

User related dimensions

These dimensions are sent only if a user is logged-in, and if the end-user requires consent from the end-user and the end-user accepted it. See more about user related dimensions.

They are sent in platform-specific structures or format:

Dimension	Belongs to	Data type	Description
user_id	User	string	User's unique identifier
customer_number	User	string	User's unique customer number

Event related dimensions

Dimension	Belongs to	Data type	Description
url	User	string	The url to the external web page

Deprecated dimensions

These dimensions are only sent in native apps and will stopped being sent in the future.

Dimension	Belongs to	Data type	Description
title_uid	User	string	The unique identifier of the title
issue_uid	Title	string	The unique identifier of the publication
issue_slug	Title	string	Computer-friendly publication label

More information about event dimensions is found here.

Example

This is an example of event dimensions passed with the external_url_clicked event.

{    "user_id": "e2b884d5-9b83-4f3c-bf38-b03dec180352",    "customer_number": "CK1635",    "url": "https://some.site.com/page?foo=bar"}