what does utag.DB mean?

Question

I am stumped on figuring out what this means..

utag.DB

I am seeing it in a web page via the console. And I'm trying to figure out what it means. Any pointers are useful.

Answer 1

utag.db is a Tealium function for debugging. It is similar to console.log(which is non standard). It is enabled via a cookie that's set.

Answer 2

Caught you!!

You are curious about utag means you have implemented or trying to implement Tealium data layer in your portal.

Basically utag.db is used to debug tealium functionalities related to utag files. As rightly mentioned by @webanalyticsdood, it should be used instead of non standard console.log

That's fine but how do I and why should I use it?

Simple, set utag cookie to true in your developer console using following command

document.cookie="utagdb=true";

Let's try with following command,

utag.data

Whatever data you are passing on to tealium will be found inside utag.data. If you can't read your data based on conditional events, it won't be sent to Teamium, better go back and correct your code. Let's try another one.

utag.id

it will return id you've set for synching with tealium,

You can explore more similar stuff inside utag.js

PS: would suggest you to add tealium tag in your question.