How can I override the default Page URL without causing duplicate pageviews in PP TM?

[anthonybartczak]

Hi @loldenburg,

@loldenburg

To ease the analysis of content on a multi-lingual site, we want to track a generic language-independent URL into the PP standard URL dimension.

I am probably blind, but I cannot find a way to set the URL in the Piwik Pro (“tracking code”) Tag.

If I use a virtual Pageview tag to set the URL, I can set a Custom URL, but then I have duplicate pageviews (one from the “tracking code” Tag, one from the vritual Pageview Tag).

If you want to keep the automatic page view tracking and have a custom URL then probably the best way would be to create a custom HTML tag, add the setCustomUrl function to it (e.g. _paq.push(["setCustomUrl",{{ my custom url }}]);) and set a higher priority for the tag that’s using setCustomUrl (Tag Manager > Settings > Tag priority), so it’s triggered before the Piwik PRO tag.

No, you are not blind. There’s no way to set a custom URL inside the Piwik PRO tag .

@loldenburg

If I check “Track page views manually”, my expectation would be that NO automatic Pageviews would be fired anymore, i.e. everything becomes manual. But for whatever reason, Piwik thinks it still needs to fire that initial pageview. Is this a bug or “as designed”, or am I not seeing the obvious?

You are correct. Once you enable Track page views manually the trackPageView function should be removed from your tracking code (the Piwik PRO tag). Is this also occuring in incognito?