How to Build Your Own Event Driven Timer Trigger in Google Tag Manager

GTM has a built-in timer that starts when a user enters the page. With this trigger we cannot control when the timer trigger actually starts.
In today’s video, I will share with you how to build our own timer trigger that starts based on user’s interaction in our website, so we can check error or success messages at a later stage.

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OUTLINE:
00:00 - Intro
2:15 - Build a Timer Trigger in GTM
3:34 - Get the Text Value Your Button (Before Click)
5:43 - Set Up a 2 Second Listener Tag
8:27 - Create Custom Trigger Using Variable Button Text
8:30 - Create a 2 Second Timer Trigger
9:00 - Create Tag to Fire After 2 Seconds
9:45 - Testing

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[najvahabibi]

It works magically. I tried to use element visibility but didn't work, Thanks for your help. always amazing 🥰🥰

[alexandervoit]

Can you make a video on how to pass url parameters from one page to another? I want to be able to extract the data I stored in a cookie and send the data via url parameters to another page

[axelax]

Thank you for your tips as always! I have a problem with the timer:

I tried the Timer Tag with a slide show. I want to get the new image src after a "Next"-Button Click into a GTM-Javascript-Variable. In debug mode, when the timer tag fires the variable has the correct value. But when the data is sent to GA via a UA-Tag its always the old value. The Timer-Tag is fired first and then the UA-Tag as a cleanup tag.

[romulo_gomes]

Hi Julian. Do you know if there's any free wordpress theme with built-in stuff on the datalayer so I can play with? I want to do some tests to learn faster but I don't have a website with events and a decent datalayer to test. I hope you can help :) thanks!

[joshsilverbauer]

This was an amazing vid, saves me such a headache I was going through yesterday. Question, at 7:02 it looks like you push a shortcut .iffe which populates function, was this edited or is there such a shortcut? I had no luck when recreating.

[maraprayogo]

Thank you for this lovely videos. What if i want to track time duration on each image of a slider...?

[nmstyfx]

When will your course drop??? Measure masters