Create an Event

Events in Contentstack Personalize A/B Test experiences let you capture and monitor every interaction made by a visitor.

Prerequisites

• Contentstack account
• Personalize-enabled Organization with permissions

  Note: Users with Owner and Member access to a Personalize project can create new events.

• Access to Personalize project

  Note: We assumed that you have already created a Personalize project. If not, follow this guide to create a project in Personalize.

What You Will Learn

• How to create a new event in a Personalize project.

• How to set an event Key and optional Description.

• How to use the event next as a metric in an A/B Test experience.

Steps for Execution

To create an event, log in to your Contentstack account and perform the following steps:

1. In the top navigation bar, click the App Switcher icon and then click Personalize.
2. You will be redirected to the Personalize Projects landing page. Click the project for which you want to create an event.
3. Click the Events tab. From the Events page, click the + New Event button.
4. In the New Event modal, provide a suitable Key and an optional Description.You can create custom events to track metrics (impressions and conversions) for common scenarios such as click, add_to_cart, checkout and many more.
5. Click Create to complete the set up.

This creates a new event in your Personalize project.

Next Steps

You can now add the event to an A/B Test experience as a Metric to evaluate the variant performance for impressions and conversions.

Related Resource

• Personalize Management API: Create an Event