Tracking visits from a link with a custom variable

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Your software
My Mautic version is: 4.4.9
My PHP version is: 8.0.30
My Database type and version is: MySQL 8.0.34

Your problem
My problem is:
I need to track visits to a specific page of my website while retrieving a specific variable (www.example.com/specific-page/?pr=test). The visits will come from emails send from outside my Mautic installation.
The Report I created does not show any page hits.

These errors are showing in the log:
None, as there is no error.

Steps I have tried to fix the problem:

I used the information provided on the following website: https://www.mautic.org/blog/developer/tracking-visitor-data-by-smart-url
to adjust my tracking script. The custom field is publicly updatable, yet I couldn’t see any entries in the report I created.
The custom field has the following settings:

  • Label = Partner
  • Alias = pr
  • Object = Contact
  • Group = Core
  • Data Type = Text
  • No Default Value

As of GDPR, the tracking script will only run, when the visitor agrees to the tracking with Mautic.
On the report I created, I use filters to find any page hits from a specific partner. I tried using the filter column “Hit URL”, “Campaign”, “Contact Partner”, but did not get anything. Is there a way to check if Mautic received the variable from the website visit?

Any suggestions about setting this tracking up is highly appreciated.

Thanks,
Stephan

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Hi everyone,

as I did not get the smart links to work, I tried a different approach by using Mautic Landing Page Redirects.

This is how it works:

  1. Create a New Landing Page URL that suites my needs (the custom variable, e.g. a title for a campaign)
  2. LP category Redirects
  3. LP is unpublished
  4. Redirect Type 302 temporary
  5. Redirect URL: the one where the traffic should go

Create a Report:

  1. Data: Date hit, Hit URL, Hit referer, and what ever you need.
  2. Filter: Hit URL contains “LP redirect name” from above.

This way I could create URLs to give someone else and still be able to track the traffic.

Maybe I get the smart link to work one day, but it’s not that important for me now.
Hope this helps.