[Koha] Google Analytics 4 and Koha 22.05, help needed

[Elaine Bradtke]

We haven't been using Google Analytics on Koha, but we thought we would try
it to see if it throws up any useful data. They're switching to a new
system (Analytics 4). I thought I'd start there, but I haven't had any
success in implementing it.  Has anyone done this in 22.05 and if so could
you help me out? I know nothing about JavaScript.

Here's what I've tried so far:
I looked at Koha Geek's tip where it suggests we paste the site tag into
opaccredits, but this doesn't seem to be System preference anymore
http://kohageek.blogspot.com/2019/01/google-analytics-koha.html

 From Bywater (
https://bywatersolutions.com/education/setting-up-google-analytics-with-koha
) – add the following to opacuserjs – change the track id to your Google ID


//Begin Google Analytics script


(function(i,s,o,g,r,a,m){i['GoogleAnalyticsObject']=r;i[r]=i[r]||function(){

(i[r].q=i[r].q||[]).push(arguments)},i[r].l=1*new
Date();a=s.createElement(o),

m=s.getElementsByTagName(o)[0];a.async=1;a.src=g;m.parentNode.insertBefore(a,m)

})(window,document,'script','https://www.google-analytics.com/analytics.js
','ga');


ga('create', 'trackID', 'auto');

ga('send', 'pageview');


//End Google Analytics script


This throws up syntax errors about missing semicolons, and 'expected an
assignment of function call and instead saw an expression'



>From new Google analytics – (our ID is xed out) - this throws up error
messages about identifiers, operators and an unrecoverable syntax error.


<!-- Google tag (gtag.js) -->

<script async src="https://www.googletagmanager.com/gtag/js?id=XXXXXXX
"></script>

<script>

window.dataLayer = window.dataLayer || [];

function gtag(){dataLayer.push(arguments);}

gtag('js', new Date());


gtag('config', 'XXXXXXX');

</script>


Thanks for any help you can offer

Elaine Bradtke
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English Folk Dance and Song Society <https://www.efdss.org>
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Tel    +44 (0) 20 7485 2206 (This number is for the English Folk Dance and
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