Variables: create

Requires authorization

Creates a GTM variable. Try it now or see an example.

Request

HTTP request

POST https://www.googleapis.com/tagmanager/v1/accounts/accountId/containers/containerId/variables

Parameters

Parameter name Value Description
Path parameters
accountId string The GTM Account ID.
containerId string The GTM Container ID.

Authorization

This request requires authorization with the following scope (read more about authentication and authorization).

Scope
https://www.googleapis.com/auth/tagmanager.edit.containers

Request body

In the request body, supply a Variables resource with the following properties:

Property name Value Description Notes
Required Properties
name string Variable display name. writable
parameter[].type string The parameter type. Valid values are:
  • boolean: The value represents a boolean, represented as 'true' or 'false'
  • integer: The value represents a 64-bit signed integer value, in base 10
  • list: A list of parameters should be specified
  • map: A map of parameters should be specified
  • template: The value represents any text; this can include variable references (even variable references that might return non-string types)
  • trigger_reference: The value represents a trigger, represented as the trigger id


Acceptable values are:
  • "boolean"
  • "integer"
  • "list"
  • "map"
  • "template"
  • "triggerReference"
writable
type string GTM Variable Type. writable
Optional Properties
disablingTriggerId[] list For mobile containers only: A list of trigger IDs for disabling conditional variables; the variable is enabled if one of the enabling trigger is true while all the disabling trigger are false. Treated as an unordered set. writable
enablingTriggerId[] list For mobile containers only: A list of trigger IDs for enabling conditional variables; the variable is enabled if one of the enabling triggers is true while all the disabling triggers are false. Treated as an unordered set. writable
notes string User notes on how to apply this variable in the container. writable
parameter[] list The variable's parameters. writable
parameter[].key string The named key that uniquely identifies a parameter. Required for top-level parameters, as well as map values. Ignored for list values. writable
parameter[].list[] list This list parameter's parameters (keys will be ignored). writable
parameter[].map[] list This map parameter's parameters (must have keys; keys must be unique). writable
parameter[].value string A parameter's value (may contain variable references such as "{{myVariable}}") as appropriate to the specified type. writable
scheduleEndMs long The end timestamp in milliseconds to schedule a variable. writable
scheduleStartMs long The start timestamp in milliseconds to schedule a variable. writable

Response

If successful, this method returns a Variables resource in the response body.

Examples

Note: The code examples available for this method do not represent all supported programming languages (see the client libraries page for a list of supported languages).

Java

Uses the Java client library.

/*
 * Note: This code assumes you have an authorized tagmanager service object.
 */

/*
 * This request creates a new variable for the authorized user.
 */

// Create the variable object.
Variable variable = new Variable();
variable.setName("randomNumber");
variable.setType("r"); // The random number type.

try {
  Variable response = tagmanager.accounts().containers().
      variables().create("123456", "54321", variable).execute();
} catch (GoogleJsonResponseException e) {
  System.err.println("There was a service error: "
      + e.getDetails().getCode() + " : "
      + e.getDetails().getMessage());
}

/*
 * The results of the create method are stored in the response object.
 * The following code shows how to access the created Id and Fingerprint.
 */
System.out.println("Variable Id = " + response.getVariableId());
System.out.println("Variable Fingerprint = " + response.getFingerprint());

Python

Uses the Python client library.

# Note: This code assumes you have an authorized tagmanager service object.

# This request creates a new variable.
try:
  response = tagmanager.accounts().containers().variables().create(
      accountId='23732470',
      containerId='801231',
      body={
          'name': 'random_number',
          'type': 'r'
      }
  ).execute()

except TypeError, error:
  # Handle errors in constructing a query.
  print 'There was an error in constructing your query : %s' % error

except HttpError, error:
  # Handle API errors.
  print ('There was an API error : %s : %s' %
         (error.resp.status, error.resp.reason))

# The results of the create method are stored in response object.
# The following code shows how to access the created id and fingerprint.
print 'Variable Id = %s' % response.get('variableId')
print 'Variable Fingerprint = %s' % response.get('fingerprint')

Try it!

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