Structure: Event types and attributes
Purple apps support tracking via several tracking services. Each tracking service usually distinguishes three types of events:
- Actions
- Views
- Purchases
Some tracking services also support attributes.
- Attributes
Attributes are fundamentally different from events because they do not represent an event that occurs at a specific time, but describe a state that a user or the app has.
Purple also use this division to reflect the behavior of the tracking services:
Name of key in configuration | Description |
|---|---|
events | Groups all action events. |
views | Groups all view events. |
purchases | Groups all purchase events. |
attributes | Groups all attributes. |
We then show this division using an example (we have already learned the structure for this in chapter Structure: Tracking services):
First, let's assume a scenario where a Purple Customer wants to use Airship and Firebase. For example, the following structure would result at the tracking service level:
Then the sections for the event types and attributes are added to the individual tracking services, as well as the default section. Sections can be omitted if no events or attributes are configured there.
For example, Firebase does not offer an API in its native SDK to send purchase events. It is therefore not necessary to configure the purchase section in Firebase and is omitted accordingly.
