About the usage of customTrackingParameters

[gyosida]

Hello, please I'd like your help with the customTrackingParameters feature.

I have the following use case: I want to track a soccer team selection event, but is relevant for the business to know about the team id, name, team's tournament and if it was a enabled or disabled (bool) event.

I don't find the description on your Readme 100% clear so I'd like to confirm:

• Can I send a map with these custom parameters? team_id, team_name, enabled, tournament_id
• Am I only able to send an already predefined set of parameters? if so, why?
• Do you recommend to use a custom dimension instead? Personally, I think this options is a little bit "advance" for this kind of storing related to event info stuff.

Thanks in advance!

[brototyp]

Hey @gyosida,

your question is quite dependent on how you want to analyze your information on the backend as well.

There are events (unlike page views) in Matomo that would probably fit your need the best. Events by themselves have 4 parameters: Categories, Actions, Names and Values. If you can fit your information in there somewhere, that would be the best solution I guess.

Custom dimensions are an option, but they are best suited for generic information such as if you want the soccer team be a dimension of all (or many) of the events you are tracking. There is a performance impact on the backend side when using dimensions and there is a default limit of 5 dimension all together which can be changed.

[brototyp]

I'll close this for now. Please let me know if this is still an issue.