Add dataLayer in NEW Social Sharing buttons

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    • Type: Task
    • Resolution: Fixed
    • Priority: Should have
    • 1.5.0
    • 3
    • Sprint #29, Sprint #30

      In https://jira.greenpeace.org/browse/PLANET-1501 we got rid of the AddThis Toggle button for social sharing, which in the original KPI extraction setup was firing Social Sharing events in GA UA-10290164. The AddThis was replaced by pure HTML Share Buttons - https://schier.co/blog/2014/10/22/pure-html-share-buttons.html but ONLY on two specific content groups: 

      Anton from PRECIS recommended the way forward:

      "I would suggest an onclick dataLayer.push that relies on the Generic Event Tag that I've described in the Implementation Guide - https://docs.google.com/document/d/1VPRTuojEl-iHtgSf7LNlp6DHLF9u1SH6K0pmNX6LDxQ/edit#heading=h.9rctk927bhkf". 

      basically, the DataLayer.push should be embedded in the buttons code (below)

       dataLayer.push({

       'event' : 'uaevent' //do not alter this name

       'eventCategory' : 'Social Share' //The Event Category to be sent to GA

       'eventAction' : '[variable]' //Facebook/Twitter/Email

       'eventLabel' : '[variable]' //Optional, could be current URL

       });

       

      This would automatically collect the "click" event, and send it to Google Analytics using the configuration of GTM that is al ready in place.

       

            Assignee:
            Nikos Roussos
            Reporter:
            Luca Tiralongo
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