Using Data Client to fire GA4 tag

[Jack_G]

Hi,

I have found the data client is better at parsing the data from the client side container and building this in the event-data model. When we use the data client we receive the items object from the datalayer for purchases which we do not with the GA4 client. So I am thinking about just using the data client for everything instead. The problem is that when using the data client to trigger the GA4 tag . the data is not sent to the correct GA region.

The data tag sends it to https://www.google-analytics.com/g/collect

The correct region should be https://region1.google-analytics.com/g/collect
like here:

Any ideas how I can change this? Is it a setting in stape itself?

Thanks in advance for any help

[Alex]

I would not recommend using Data tag - Data Client to send data to GA4 or any Google platforms (Floodlight / Google ADS etc).
Google tag automatically collects some events and generates quite a lot of automatic data that is needed for correct operation of GA4 / Google ADS etc. So it is unlikely that you will be able to replicate this completely and the quality of your tracking will suffer a lot.

Data tag - Data Client is a great source of data for any non-Google tags (Meta, TikTok, Klaviyo, etc.).

As per your questions - GA4 itself determines which endpoint to send data to, you can’t influence this and Stape can’t influence this either.

[Jack_G]

thanks for the reply.

the main reason for using the data client/tag was that we have some events with parameters as arrays which the GA4 tag/client does not seem to recognise whereas the stape one does.

For example this one:

Any ideas how we can get the server side GA4 tag to recognise this data so we can forward it on to GA4/big query?

[Dan]

@Jack_G JSON.stringify them, and then JSON.parse on the server

See this thread towards the middle: Best Consent Logic for SST & Data Tag? - #4 by Alex

[Jack_G]

Hi dan, thanks a lot. using this template worked perfectly