Sending Custom Metrics about universal-analytics

[istian]

@sandromartis ,

Did you get this working? I'm also curious how to do GA metris using this module.

Thanks

[sandromartis]

@istian ,

Mhm, I think the syntax I posted in the comment above was correct. So in my case 'cm1' is the custom metric with index 1 on Google Analytics. My problem was that I have set the scope of the metric to "Product" and I didn't receive any data. Dunno why, I'm not really a Google Analytics crack. If I remember this correctly, I started receiving data after I changed the scope to 'Hit'.
Nonetheless, I decided to use a different service for collecting my custom stats, because GA didn't really fit my purpose, or maybe I just don't really understand how these custom metrics and the scopes work.

I hope I can help you with this.

Best,
Sandro

[jtillmann]

First of all I think the syntax is correct as well.

Second, make sure what @sandromartis said above: Set up the metric in Google Analytics and in most cases you want the "Hit" scope.

"Product" scope is only necessary/possible in ecommerce transactions.

[istian]

actually, I just want to know the syntax for sending custom dimension. I'm new and still trying to understand how to use this library. I assume that sending custom dimension syntax would be:

var totalUsers = 410;
visitor.event({
    ....
    cd1: <my own value>
}, function (err) {
// …
});

[jtillmann]

Looks good, make sure to send event category (ec) and action (ea) to make it a valid event.

[istian]

Thank you guys!

@sandromartis , I already hijacked this thread :)