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Gaureshk_Kodag
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August 12, 2022
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Adobe Target Custom Criteria

  • August 12, 2022
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Hi, community,

I have lists of products (offline store data) that are the best selling in different cities. for example for city A, I have a list of 20 products, for city B, another 20 products this list gets refreshed on a weekly or monthly basis.

How can I use this offline data and create different recommendations like top sellers in city A (visible to only city A people), top sellers in city B (visible to only city B people), and so on?

 

Thanks in advance.

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    Best answer by Anil_Umachigi

    @gaureshk_kodag That is a great usecase! should be doable 

    Have you tried this API? https://developer.adobe.com/target/before-administer/recs-api/  or weekly feeds with updated top products

     

    So here's the flow i'm thinking 

    1. a cron job or product feed which fetches top products by city on weekly basis  
    2. update catalog with make sure to include a custom entity denoting region (top_products_city_A) 
    3. Create collections and use in activity. 

     

    Would love to try this when i have time. Hope this helps 

     

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    Anil_Umachigi
    Adobe Employee
    Anil_UmachigiAdobe EmployeeAccepted solution
    Adobe Employee
    August 13, 2022

    @gaureshk_kodag That is a great usecase! should be doable 

    Have you tried this API? https://developer.adobe.com/target/before-administer/recs-api/  or weekly feeds with updated top products

     

    So here's the flow i'm thinking 

    1. a cron job or product feed which fetches top products by city on weekly basis  
    2. update catalog with make sure to include a custom entity denoting region (top_products_city_A) 
    3. Create collections and use in activity. 

     

    Would love to try this when i have time. Hope this helps 

     

      Gaureshk_Kodag
      Adobe Employee
      Gaureshk_KodagAdobe EmployeeAuthor
      Adobe Employee
      August 15, 2022

      Thanks @anil_umachigi this helps. I thought of taking this approach after trying the below approach.

      What I was trying is using custom criteria and uploading a csv using URL and on client side they'll keep updating csv on weekly basis, target will fetch that data every 24 hour.

      In csv we need to add key and against key there will be recommendation1, recommendation2... Columns.

      Key is mandatory in this case. Now the problem here is, if I need to show specific top 20 sellers in bangalore city on all pdps, what will be the key? For each pdp do i need to add all entity ids and against tht same 20 entity keys? Or is thr anything like, if you add * in key then it'll get applied to all entities i.e. all pdp?

      Anil_Umachigi
      Adobe Employee
      Anil_UmachigiAdobe Employee
      Adobe Employee
      August 15, 2022

      @gaureshk_kodag Glad it helps! Thank you. 

      Right so what you are doing will work as well, but i'm not too sure a wild card may work for product id (entity id) 

       

      The other option would be, can you use city as key instead? 

      Recommendation is determined by an item that is stored in a visitor’s profile, using either user.x or profile.x attributes.

      When this option is selected, the entity.id value must be present in the profile attribute.

      When you base recommendations on custom attributes, you must select the custom attribute and then select the recommendation type.

       

      So instead of product id, do you want to use the city name? and recommendations against it  profile.geolocation.city

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