I already checked that my GTM and GA are connected correctly, and I have a couple of virtual pageviews working (that is, I can see them in the GA real-time report). But I would like to attach some metadata to these virtual pageviews, and I thought I would accomplish this using custom dimensions .
So I have a setting. In my pageview tag (the one that corresponds to virtual pageview) I set a couple of custom dimensions:
Index | Dimension 1 | {{D1}} 2 | {{D2}}
where D1 and D2 are macros of dataLayer variables.
I also tried to create these custom parameters in my GA properties. Both are user areas and have names corresponding to the variable name dataLayer (not a macro name).
I set the GTM container in preview mode and checked the requests sent, and the size looks like it was sent correctly:
Dimension: {1: "d1 val", 2: "d2 val"}
Finally, I set these fields accordingly in the dataLayer whenever the virtual pageview event (which fires the pageview tag using the virtual URL) is lit.
However, I'm not sure where to look for them in the GA report. They do not appear in the real-time report.
This makes me wonder if custom measurements are not supported in real time, and I just have to just wait for GA to process them? Or should I take something wrong with the way I configure it?
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