Optimizely - How to access the variation name

Question

I am trying to create a goal in optimizly.

I have a product page product.php where someone selects a product via a radio button. That POSTS the data to the cart page. There are 3 variations plus the original one so 4 variations in total.

The data is posted something like below

cart.php?id=277

There's just 3 id's so lets say the ids are 277,278 and 279

Now i have created the variations without issue. I now want to setup a goal on the cart.php, the goals will be:

Product 277 added to cart
Product 278 added to cart
Product 279 added to cart

But essentially there will be 12 goals because there will be:

Product 277 added to cart via original Product 277 added to cart via variation 1 Product 277 added to cart via variation 2 Product 277 added to cart via variation 3

Is there a way to do this with the custom goal or is it only possible via the API? I found the documentation on their site a bit confusing and couldn't find anything specifically related to this, been waiting a few days for a reply from their support with no reply.

Answer 1

You should actually just code 3 goals (one for each product) or even a single goal ('add to cart clicks') and then do the pivoting in the reporting section where it will break everything out by variation (see screenshot).

That said, optimizely.variationNamesMap[1234567890] where 1234567890 is the experiment ID (pull from the querystring on the edit page) will allow you to access your variation names in the code.