Adobe QR code generator - tracking making it easy

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February 24, 2025
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is it possible to track clicks on these adobe generated qr codes?

if so how?
if not I understand already created codes won't nessisarilty have the correct data in them.. whats the simplest way to use/ intrgrate this into this service.. or should I look at another generator?
or could the folks at Adobe look at making this an easy part of the generator.. I cant be the only person wanting to know how many folks have used a QR code --right?

leo.r

Community Expert

As far as I understand, you need to implement click tracking on your end. That is you need to track clicks on the specific URL for which various methods exist.

P.S. posted before seeing James' reply.

James Gifford—NitroPress

Legend

GMTA. 🙂

The fundamental way to view this is that you can present a URL that takes the user where you want them, with all redirection, tracking, etc. inherent in the URL and the receiving site, or you can encode that same URL in a QR code, for exactly the same functionality except simplified/masked by the pretty code. There's no hidden magic in the latter, except that a user can't instantly see it's a complex, possibly undesirable link to click on.

James Gifford—NitroPress

Legend

The short and general answer here is "No." QR codes are simply encoded data. Nothing more, nothing less, and they do not change once generated.

If you want to send people to a website, encode a URL. The code will forevermore send clickers to that address.

If you want to send people to a redirected URL, via a tracking and data-scraping system... encode the URL to take that path. The code will then forevermore send clickers through the long, server-based process to the Egress.

But in neither case does the code itself or the way it's generated have much of anything to do with the subsequent events. InDesign's QR code generator is as good as most and better than some, and does not scrape, save or modify the data you enter.

Start here for more information: http://www.nitrosyncretic.com/DPR/dpr_qrcodes.php

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pixelmorphAuthor

Participant

so tldr --> use a url shortener to track stuff :} thankyou

James Gifford—NitroPress

Legend

No, use a tinyURL to keep the code simple and low-grain for reproduction and reading reasons.

Use any tracking, click-counting or malware delivery system (okay, joke) you like and encode its URL in a QR code if you like. But the code itself is neither here nor there with respect to how its contents are handled. It's just a URL in a different language, as it were.

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