How to track custom data on WebTrends Analytics

Question

I need to track custom events from WebTrends Analytics.

Right now I'm sending virtual page views like this

Webtrends.multiTrack({
    args: {
        "DCS.dcsuri": '/' + this.presentation  + '/' + slug,
        "WT.ti": title
    }
})

And this to track custom events (such as button clicks)

Webtrends.multiTrack({
    args: {
        "DCS.dcsuri": '/' + this.presentation  + '/' + slug,
        "WT.ti": featureName,
        "WT.dl": 99
    }   
})

First, I don't know if sending custom events like this is fine, but from their "API reference" I learned that by setting WT.dl to 99 basically means to track an event which doesn't already have a WT.dl value (so is custom).

Besides this I have to send custom data along with the other, like

"WT.user_name": userName,
"WT.user_position": userPosition

To complicate things further I do not have access to the WebTrends panels so my testing is limited to the Network tab of my browser's inspector.

Mozilla here seems to be using another method, which is best explained here, which confuses me further...

Also I just found out DCSext.custom_param which may be what I need, I just don't know how this will end up being included in the final custom report.

How to track custom data on WebTrends Analytics

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