clickTAG, clickTag, _level0.clickTag

aniebel,

> I've been told that across the board, the clickTags for
> the sites we are posting on are the same. First off, I
> check a few and they are not the same. Some require
> "clickTAG" and some require "clickTag".

I believe it's going to come down to whatever unique permutation each
agency is looking for -- which is frustating, because it really shouldn't be
so difficult. ;)

Ultimately, there's nothing significant to the word "clickTAG,"
whichever of its letters are capitalized (the word could easily be
"soggyGaloshes," truth be told). The word itself is simply an arbitrary
variable whose value gets passed into the SWF from an outside source, such
as a query string or FlashVars.

For the last view versions of the Flash Player, case matters. For
example, this ...

var clickTAG:String = "abc";

... is not the same as this ...

var clickTag:String = "abc";

... simply because some of the letters are capitalized differently.

So whatever a given tracking agency gives you to track, their version is
the one you have to use for their SWFs. At there's some sense of
convention, in that they're at least using the same word. ;)


David Stiller
Adobe Community Expert
Dev blog, http://www.quip.net/blog/
"Luck is the residue of good design."