Client-managed first-party collection requires minimal setup effort and has no recurring cost or administrative overhead. In most cases, no additional effort is required when implementing this form of first-party data collection.

In the initial planning, you need to inventory the unique 2nd level domains for the sites where client-managed first-party is to be implemented. For domains with a country code top-level domain (ccTLD) such as thesite.co.uk, reference the 3rd level domain value thesite.co.uk.

Activate multisite global sessionization

If you have a multisite implementation, the Site ID value can change during a visit to a single, client-managed cookie domain. To ensure the visitor is associated with a single session, implement multisite global sessionization. A multisite implementation refers to any HTML web site sending tags directly to a native multisite Global ID+SiteID in the format 5xxx0000|<siteid>. A native multisite Global ID starts with a '5' and ends in four zeroes. Legacy 9-series IDs migrated to multisite cannot use or benefit from multisite global sessionization.

To activate this feature for client-managed first-party multisite implementations, set the variable cm_JSFEAMasterIDSessionCookie to a Boolean value of true immediately after the eluminate.js tag library and before any tag function calls. The cmSetupOther function provides a convenient way to set this and other optional eluminate.js variables. For example, cmSetupOther({"cm_JSFEAMasterIDSessionCookie":true});

Setting the cookie domain value

The final configuration step is to update the cmSetClientID(...) function call to enable client-managed first-party and set the appropriate cookie domain value.

Change the data collection method parameter to true (the default is false). The data collection domain parameter remains data.coremetrics.com. Then, change the cookie domain parameter to match the appropriate 2nd or 3rd level domain value of the website where cmSetClientID is called.

Client-managed first-party cmSetClientID call where the site is served from thesite.com or a sub-domain of thesite.com:

cmSetClientID("99999999",true,"data.coremetrics.com","thesite.com");