Automatically limit number of items from same brand in recommendations carousel

[jmgx]

Is there a way to limit the number of products on a recommendations carousel that are from the same brand? For instance, if I only want 2 or 3 products max from an specific brand on my carousels, is there a way to make possible without manually excluding products?

Thank you 

[eric-thibeault · Accepted solution]

Hello,

One solution you could try is:

• Creating a criteria that doesn't show any items from that brand, and add "Front Promotion".
• Choose "Promote by attribute".
• With this you'll see different possibilities: you can decide to promote items with the same brand than the product they are seeing, or even enter static brand values...

With this feature from Adobe Target, you have control over the amount of items you want to show, only by selecting the number of design slots.

Hope that helps you in achieving your goal,

-Eric

-Eric

[Ryan_Roberts_]

Hi @jmgx,

Another suggestion to go along with @eric-thibeault's is that you use a Velocity script in the design to evaluate the list of recommended entities and then loop through them to ensure you're only including 2 from any specific brand. You might request a few extra recommended items so you can back fill when a particular brand shows up more than 2 times. This would require coding the logic in the HTML design but would probably allow you the greatest flexibility. Most front-end devs can help write velocity scripts after a little practice.

Here are some help docs on using Velocity in Recommendations designs. Here's info on Velocity scripting in general.