Events

attachEvent(element, evt, fn, useCapture)

Pendo agent’s version of attaching event listeners.

Param	Type	Description
element	`HTMLElement`	DOM element to attach listener
evt	`string`	type of DOM event
fn	`function`	callback function
useCapture	`Boolean`	use capture phase instead of bubble

Example

pendo.attachEvent(pendo.dom("h1")[0], 'click', helloWorld = () => { console.log(Hello World") });"

Pendo agent’s version of detaching event listeners. Callback must be a named function, cannot remove anonymous functions.

Param	Type	Description
element	`HTMLElement`	DOM element to attach listener
evt	`string`	type of DOM event
fn	`function`	callback function
useCapture	`Boolean`	use capture phase instead of bubble

Example

pendo.detachEvent(pendo.dom("h1")[0], 'click', helloWorld);

If a visitor has been marked as "Do Not Process" then this value will be set to true.

Example

pendo.doNotProcess => true

This will force a flush of cached event objects.

Returns: ayepromise.Promise - from {flushBeacons}

Param	Type	Description
force	`boolean`	a "full" flush, i.e. ALL {pendo.buffers.silos}

Example

pendo.flushNow()

Returns true if event collection is currently enabled.

Example

pendo.stopSendingEvents()
pendo.isSendingEvents() => false
pendo.startSendingEvents()
pendo.isSendingEvents() => true

Starts event collection and transmission.

Example

$ pendo.startSendingEvents()
> Pendo Agent unlocked.  Events will be written.

Stops event collection and transmission.

Example

$ pendo.stopSendingEvents()
> Pendo Agent locked.  No more events will be written.

Method to manually track events. Requires a non-empty name string to collect event.

Param	Type	Description
name	`string`	name of the collected event
[props]	`Object`	optional properties object to collect with to the event

Example

pendo.track('scroll')