http://blog.shortfusion.com/index.cfm Furious Coding en-us Wed, 08 Sep 2010 23:44:24 -0500 Sun, 08 Feb 2009 00:05:00 -0500 BlogCFC http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss alex@shortfusion.com alex@shortfusion.com Jason's acronym to go here Coldfusion, Flex and more tech blog Shortfusion Blog ShortFusion (Alex Frates & Jason Olmsted) alex@shortfusion.com ShortFusion (Alex Frates & Jason Olmsted) http://blog.shortfusion.com/index.cfm no http://blog.shortfusion.com/index.cfm/2009/2/8/Flex-and-Google-Analytics--Event-Tracking-Mystery-and-How-To-Track-Events-In-Child-Components I've begun to start using the <a href="http://code.google.com/apis/analytics/docs/flashTrackingSetupFlex.html" target="_new">Google Analytics Tracking for Adobe Flash for the Adobe Flex</a> at work. The early results have been promising, and the first wave of deployment happened last week. We re-released several applications to start tracking an important key performance indicator, new customer signups. Getting started and using the analytics.swc is not that bad. And there is a good intro video at Adobe.tv on the integration of <a href="http://code.google.com/apis/analytics/docs/flashTrackingSetupFlex.html" target="_new">Google Tracking and Flex</a>. Also, there is a recent, as of this writing, article at InsideRIA on <a href="http://www.insideria.com/2009/02/using-google-analytics-within.html" target="_blank">Google Analytics within Flex/Flash Applications</a>. Using the Google component is relatively straightforward, but I have encountered a couple of snags. The first is Event Tracking, as opposed to Page Tracking, and the other is the required location of the &lt;ga4flash:FlexTracker&gt; object. [More] Google Analytics Flex Sun, 08 Feb 2009 00:05:00 -0500 http://blog.shortfusion.com/index.cfm/2009/2/8/Flex-and-Google-Analytics--Event-Tracking-Mystery-and-How-To-Track-Events-In-Child-Components