platformOS & Siteglide allows you to store additional information for a visitor by adding additional fields to their session when they take certain actions. You can then use these additional session fields to serve them more relevant page content.
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How can you use custom session fields?
Step 1: Save a new session field
Saving session fields in Liquid is just like using the liquid "assign" tag to create a variable. Simply use the session tag and choose a field name on your page, template file or other:
{% session my_field_name = "any value" %}
my_field_name- Can be changed any word you would like the session name to be.- "any value" - The contents of these quote marks can be changed to anything you would like the contents of this session field to be.
Step 2: Read a session field
To output a session field on the Page, you can access under context.session:
{{context.session.my_field_name}}
You can use this in your logic to deliver more relevant content:
{% if context.session.my_field_name == "any value" %} {% endif %}
This Article is heavily inspired by the platformOS documentation on their Liquid tags. We'd recommend you take a look to learn more about the tools you have as a Liquid developer.