Track custom variables

Custom variables are additional information on the screen, the user or the session, sent within screenviews.

For example, they can include information on the current layout of a screen, like dark or light mode.

• It is possible to save up to 20 distinct custom variables per screenview. If more are received, only the first 20 custom variables, based on their index value, will be kept.
• The index value of custom variable is used to determine which custom variable to be kept. Only index value between 1 and 20 will be taken into account.

• Every custom variable is composed of index, name and value.
• If you are using the same index twice in a single screen only the first (name, value) pair associated with the index will be kept.
• In case name (max. 512 characters) or value (max. 255 characters) maximum characters length is reached, the SDK will automatically trim the exceeding characters.
• If name or value are empty, the SDK will instead send the literal string "cs-empty".
• Use a consistent index for a given variable within an application - for instance, if the “screen layout” is collected with an index of 3, use the slot 3 for this information on every screen of the application.

To define and send custom variables, follow this:

CustomVar customVar1 = new CustomVar(1, "CustomVarName1", "CustomVarValue1");
CustomVar customVar2 = new CustomVar(2, "CustomVarName2", "CustomVarValue2");

CustomVar[] customVars = new CustomVar[] {customVar1, customVar2};

Contentsquare.send("ScreenName", customVars);

val customVar1 = CustomVar(1, "CustomVarName1", "CustomVarValue1")
val customVar2 = CustomVar(2, "CustomVarName2", "CustomVarValue2")

Contentsquare.send("ScreenName", arrayOf(customVar1, customVar2))