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

[Marc Véron]

Do you really want to tell Google what your patrons do on your Koha 
instance?
Please consider to have a self hosted analytics tool like e.g. Matomo.
Marc
@mveron at tooting.ch

Am 15.11.22 um 18:34 schrieb 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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