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Capturing custom events

When all events captured by your widgets are not enough, you can use our Javascript SDK to send custom events to Personas.

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Written by Paulo
Updated over 4 years ago

Sometimes the events captured by your widgets are not enough or maybe you're not even using widgets. Some customers prefer to capture all page views on their website and not only when the page has an Arena Widget. For those situations we've built a Javascript SDK that you can use to identify and send tracking events directly to Arena Personas.

The first step is to install the JS snippet on your website:

  1. Go to Personas and click on the Integrations tab

  2. Expand the Arena Hub section and copy your JS snippet code

3. Paste the snippet on the <head>   tag of your website

After that you'll be able to perform the basic operations: identify   and track 

Identify

identify lets you tie a user to their actions and record traits about them. It includes a unique User ID and any optional traits you know about them like their email, name, etc.

We recommend to call identify in these situations:

  • After a user registers or log in

  • When a user updates their info

  • After loading a page that is accessible by a logged in user

Here's the Javascript code for the identify call:

 arenaHub.identify('jf8sjgnvsia0381', {
  name: "John Doe",
  email: "[email protected]",
  plan: "business"
})

Track

The track call is how you record any actions your users perform, along with any properties that describe the action.

Each action is known as an event. Each event has a name, like Subscribed, and properties, for example a Subscribed  event might have properties like plan or couponCode 

Here's the Javascript code for the track call:

 arenaHub.track("Subscribed", {
  plan: "Basic Annual",
  couponCode: "PROMO10"
});

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