Macros: create

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

Request

HTTP request

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

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 Macros resource with the following properties:

Property name	Value	Description	Notes
Required Properties
`name`	`string`	Macro 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 macro references (even macro references that might return non-string types) Acceptable values are: "`boolean`" "`integer`" "`list`" "`map`" "`template`"	writable
`type`	`string`	GTM Macro Type.	writable
Optional Properties
`disablingRuleId[]`	`list`	For mobile containers only: A list of rule IDs for disabling conditional macros; the macro is enabled if one of the enabling rules is true while all the disabling rules are false. Treated as an unordered set.	writable
`enablingRuleId[]`	`list`	For mobile containers only: A list of rule IDs for enabling conditional macros; the macro is enabled if one of the enabling rules is true while all the disabling rules are false. Treated as an unordered set.	writable
`notes`	`string`	User notes on how to apply this macro in the container.	writable
`parameter[]`	`list`	The macro'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 macro references such as "{{myMacro}}") as appropriate to the specified type.	writable
`scheduleEndMs`	`long`	The end timestamp in milliseconds to schedule a macro.	writable
`scheduleStartMs`	`long`	The start timestamp in milliseconds to schedule a macro.	writable

Response

If successful, this method returns a Macros 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 macro for the authorized user.
 */

// Construct the macro object.
Macro macro = new Macro();
macro.setName("Sample URL Macro");
macro.setType("u");

// Construct the parameters.
Parameter arg0 = new Parameter();
arg0.setType("template");
arg0.setKey("component");
arg0.setValue("URL");

Parameter arg1 = new Parameter();
arg1.setType("template");
arg1.setKey("customUrlSource");
arg1.setValue("{{element}}");

// set the parameters on the macro.
macro.setParameter(Arrays.asList(arg0, arg1));

try {
  Macro response = tagmanager.accounts().
      containers().macros().create("123456", "54321", macro).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("Macro Id = " + response.getMacroId());
System.out.println("Macro 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 macro for the authorized user.
try:
  response = tagmanager.accounts().containers().macros().create(
      accountId='123456',
      containerId='54321',
      body={
          'name': 'Sample URL Macro',
          'type': 'u',
          'parameter': [
              {
                  'type': 'template',
                  'key': 'component',
                  'value': 'URL'
              },
              {
                  'type': 'template',
                  'key': 'customUrlSource',
                  'value': '{{element}}'
              }
          ]
      }
  ).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 the response object.
# The following code shows how to access the created id and fingerprint.
print 'Macro Id = %s' % response.get('macroId')
print 'Macro Fingerprint = %s' % response.get('fingerprint')

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