Looses the UTM tags (the query string)

matt4522nwt

We have website pages that use Datatables and are also landing pages that use Google Analytics UTM tags. These pages loose the UTM tags making UTM tracking not possible. It appears the page reloads without the UTM tags (the query string). Is there a way to preserve the UTM tags (the query string)?

allan

DataTables doesn't do anything with a UTM tag, so I'm not sure what is happening on your page. Without a test case (which is required in the forum rules and also in the template text for a new post that you deleted) I'm afraid I can't offer any help.

If you link to a page showing the issue I can hopefully have a look, but I'd be astonished if it had anything to do with DataTables.

Allan

matt4522nwt

Allen,

Thank you for the reply.

This page contains a Datatables search at page bottom and will lose any query string I include. Here I include a test query-string. At first the URL with query string shows in the browser’s URL, but as the page loads the query string disappears.
https://www.acsindustrial.com/encoder-repair/allen-bradley.html?tag=test

This is a similar page that does not include a Datatables search at page bottom, and the query string survives.
https://www.acsindustrial.com/encoder-repair/veeder-root.html?tag=test

This problem only happens on pages that are using a Datatables search.

Matt

kthorngren

Looks like the problem is with this statement on line 748:

window.history.pushState('page2', 'Title', currentLocation_onload);

I placed a breakpoint there and before executing the statement the tag exists:

After the statement and before initializing Datatables the tag is removed:

It doesn't look like you have that statement in the second test case.

Kevin

matt4522nwt

Kevin,

Thank you for the analysis. I see that the problem page has the addition JS that you pointed out. I will look into this.

Thanks again!
Matt