Activate
Trigger a snippet activation. The snippet "activation" phase is where
- The visitor's IDs are read from cookies, and if updated, data for that visitor is read from storage.
- Immediately activated pages are activated.
- All other pages are queued for activation.
- Information about the environment, such as previous behavior and data from third parties, are fetched.
- A snippet activation event is tracked and a new activationId created to distinguish from the prior activation.
In this way, calling the activate API is analogous to loading Web Experimentation in a new page view but without requiring the page to be reloaded. This is especially useful in a single-page app context to enable the views of a single-page app to emulate the behavior of Web Experimentation in multi-page websites.
You can use this method to activate the snippet, if you have disabled auto-execution.
Syntax
window["optimizely"].push(activate);Parameters
Parameter and Type | Child Attribute | Description |
|---|---|---|
activate ActivateObject | N/A | An object with the type field set to activate. The other fields are the function arguments. Required. |
type string | Child attribute of type ActivateObject | The argument indicating that you are using the activate function. Required. |
Example call
// ensures the optimizely object is defined globally
window['optimizely'] = window['optimizely'] || [];
// sends the activate push to the Optimizely snippet
window["optimizely"].push({
"type": "activate"
});