Naming Events in Autocapture: Page Name + Event Type Explained

Luísa S. · 2025-09-14T20:40:20.231Z

On autocapture, it’s possible to name the events using the page name + event type like home page xpto + page view?

Short answer: not directly. Mixpanel Autocapture creates predefined events with fixed names (e.g., “[Auto] Page View”, “[Auto] Element Click”) and sends them with standard properties like URL components, element details, etc. You can’t rename those events at capture time to a custom pattern like “home page xpto + page view.” [Autocapture docs].Workarounds: - Use properties to encode page context (e.g., pathname, URL, custom attributes via capture_extra_attrs), then build Custom Events in Mixpanel that group/filter Autocapture events by those properties and label them for reporting. [JS SDK autocapture options; Autocapture blog intro]. - If you need fully custom event names, implement precision tracking for those events (e.g., track “page_viewed” with a “page_name” property) or use the SDK’s page view tracking with your own event name. Best practice is one “page_viewed” event with a page property, not separate events per page. [Events best practices; Track Page Views].

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