Click Tag on Ad

[anmartinez]

How do you apply a click tag on an ad for tracking purposes? I know in Flash you would typically create a blank button but how would you go about it in Animator.. Thanks for the help

[miro.bojic]

Hi,

You can set up clickTag functionality in quite a similar way to how you would do it in Flash.

First create a new rectangle object, and put it on top of all other objects in your project. Set the properties as follows:

Border: turn it off.
Width, height: match project width and height.
Position: 0, 0
Opacity: 0%

Next, select the basestate of the object and under Actions->Click->Custom Javascript, you need to add script for clickTag functionality. There are probably many ways to do this, but this should work for basic cases:

//find if clickTag is set. First, we need to parse parameters that are passed and see if clickTag is set
var parameters = window.location.search; //all parameters that are passed
var clickTagIndex = parameters.indexOf('clickTag=');

//only if there is clickTag defined, we do the following
if(clickTagIndex > 0) {
  clickTagIndex += 9;
  var clickTag = parameters.substr(clickTagIndex); //extract the value behind clickTag


  //if there are multiple parameters other than clickTag, get the string only up to '&'
  if (clickTag.indexOf('&') > 0) {
      clickTag = clickTag.substr(0, clickTag.indexOf('&'));
  }
  //if clickTag is an actual link, open it in a new page
  if(clickTag.substr(0,5) === 'http:') {
      window.open(clickTag, '_blank');
  }
}

In Flash, when you embed an ad and set a clickTag, you typically want to do something like this:

<embed src="flash.swf?clickTag=http://www.someurl.com">

Animator projects are usually embedded in iFrames. First, export your project for embedding (File->Other Export->Export for Embedding. Then you can embed your ad with clickTag into your page as follows:

<iframe src="ad.html?clickTag=http://www.someurl.com">