Sitecore DMS – Trigger Goals Programatically

Hello Community!, I would like to focus my next series of blogs on how to achieve various tasks in Sitecore DMS Programatically.

In this Blog Post I would like to start with  ”How to trigger a DMS goal Programatically”.

Pre-Requisites to Trigger Sitecore DMS Goal Programatically

Before we can trigger an DMS Goal programmatically, I would like to outline some pre-requisites

• Create a Goal in the Marketing Center  ( /sitecore/system/Marketing Center/Goals)
• Deploy and Publish the Goal

How to Trigger a Goal Programatically

There are two ways to trigger a goal programmatically

Method 1 : Trigger an Goal using Goal Item ID (Preferable Way)

This method uses the item ID of the goal to trigger and is a better way since item ids in sitecore do not change if the location of the goal is changed or if the name of the goal is changed.

if (Sitecore.Analytics.Tracker.IsActive && Sitecore.Analytics.Tracker.CurrentPage != null)
 {
   Sitecore.Data.Items.Item GoaltoTrigger = Sitecore.Context.Database.GetItem("{Item ID of the Goal}");
    if(GoaltoTrigger!=null)
     {
        Sitecore.Analytics.Data.Items.PageEventItem registerthegoal = new Sitecore.Analytics.Data.Items.PageEventItem(GoaltoTrigger);
        Sitecore.Analytics.Data.DataAccess.DataSets.VisitorDataSet.PageEventsRow eventData = Sitecore.Analytics.Tracker.CurrentPage.Register(registerthegoal);
        eventData.Data = GoaltoTrigger["Description"];
        Sitecore.Analytics.Tracker.Submit();
     }
 }

Method 2 : Trigger an Goal using Goal Item Name

if (Sitecore.Analytics.Tracker.IsActive && Sitecore.Analytics.Tracker.CurrentPage != null)
{
     Sitecore.Analytics.Data.PageEventData GoaltoTrigger = new Sitecore.Analytics.Data.PageEventData("Item Name of the Goal");
     Sitecore.Analytics.Data.DataAccess.DataSets.VisitorDataSet.PageEventsRow eventData = Sitecore.Analytics.Tracker.CurrentPage.Register(GoaltoTrigger);
     eventData.Data = "Short Description of the Goal";
     Sitecore.Analytics.Tracker.Submit();
 }

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