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The Dotdigital Tag explorer

The Tag Explorer is an interactive overlay that you can launch on any site where you have deployed the Dotdigital Tag. It allows you to easily test and troubleshoot your implementation.

Written by Laura Russell

The Tag Explorer displays what data is being captured from your site, and flags any potential errors or areas for review.


Access the Tag explorer

  1. In Marketing, go to Connect > Connect website.

  2. Find the Dotdigital Tag profile you want to view and select Edit.

  3. At the bottom of the page, select Tag explorer.

  4. If you have the Dotdigital Tag added to multiple sites, you see a Tag explorer popup. Expand the Domain drop-down menu and select the domain you want to launch the Tag explorer on, then select Launch.
    If you only have the Dotdigital Tag on a single domain, it launches automatically.


Use the Tag explorer

The Tag explorer has four tabs that you can use to view different kinds of data, as well as the option to review the actions and events on the current site page.

The available tabs:

Viewing and history

At the top of the Tag explorer window, you can see the page you’re currently on, and you can select the History icon to see the events for the current page with timestamps. These events include calls to the Dotdigital Tag API methods and any content from Personalization that’s loaded on the page, like a product recommendation or a popup.

Page data

The Page data tab displays base data about the specific page you’re on. Different data types are available depending on the page type, for example, on a website homepage you see page title, URL, type and session start time. For a product page, you see the productBrowse object with all the product data being passed through the Dotdigital Tag.

Site data

The Site data tab displays information about the site and current browsing session, such as the page type, title, and URL, as well as the site brand and session start time.

Validation

The Validation tab displays the status of the current request being sent to the Dotdigital Tab. Where there are any warning or failures, you see specific details of what you can review or fix. You can also see the API response generated by the request.

Event data

The Event data tab displays the exact data being sent through the Dotdigital Tag for the most recent event. You can select to view the JSON data or the JavaScript data.

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