activated

3 min

Fires each time the Optimizely Performance Edge snippet activates.

Description

At this point, the Optimizely Performance Edge snippet has been activated, and you can query for visitor state such as:

Visitor ID.

Page states (getActivePages). A Page will be included if it was found to be active in the Edge Decider.

Experiment states (getActiveExperiments), for experiments that:

Specify changes to active pages (see above), and

Target audiences that the Edge Decider was able to evaluate using data provided.

var activated = function(activated);

function onActivated(event) {
  var visitorId = window.optimizelyEdge.get('visitor_id').randomId;
  console.log("The visitor's ID is: " + visitorId);
}

window.optimizelyEdge = window.optimizelyEdge || [];
window.optimizelyEdge.push({
  type: "addListener",
  filter: {
    type: "lifecycle",
    name: "activated"
  },
  handler: onActivated
});

Parameters

This table provides general information about required and optional parameters.

Parameter	Type	Description
activated required	object	This is the object passed to the handler function.
activated.type required	string	The category of an event. The value will be lifecycle for this event.
activated.name optional	string	The name of the event type. This is set to activated.