itemViewTrack.md

itemViewTrack

Details

Reference: snowplow/snowplow#113
Idea from: https://github.com/kingo55

Summary

This is a new feature to track views of products on ecommerce sites, or suggested articles on a media site, similar to how Google AdWords tracks ad views in different positions on a page.

Tracker specification

Add a new method trackItemView() like so:

Parameter	Required?	Example value
item ID / sku	Yes	'pbz0001234'
item name	No, but advisable (to make interpreting SKU easier)	'Black Tarot', 'Pippa in royal romp shocker'
display format	No	'summary listing', 'preview', 'detailed'
item ranking	No	4
item location	No	'div-cat-4'

Item views are a new event type:

• Added to the tracker protocol as &e=iv
• Fields in tracker protocol prepended with iv_

Example:

  _snaq.push(['trackItemView',
    'business-20752215', // SKU/item code - required
    'Japan elections: Shares rise and yen weakens on Abe win', // item name
    3,                   // item ranking
                         // item location (not set)
  ]);

ETL, Storage specification

• Each item view becomes a single event in SnowPlow
• All fields are extracted into new fields in Hive/Infobright. No enrichment is required - all fields are just passed through
• The event field will be set to item_view

Roadmap

• Extend trackItemView so it can use the 10 custom var slots for events, and the cv_json custom var slot for a JSON (waiting on SnowPlow custom vars implementation)
• Enable support for storing tags associated with an item