Can i get category affinity values in Experiences through code?

[lambanitish]

Hi,

I am facing a hard time getting first category, second category etc. values inside experiences through custom code within Adobe target. I can use user.categoryAffinity to get the value in it. But, is there any way to get first category, second category etc values as well by doing something similar ?

Thanks in advance.

Regards,

Nitish

[Gaureshk_Kodag · Accepted solution]

Hi @lambanitish 

You can use profile script to fetch category affinity array using "user.categoryAffinities" and then consider first element of array as first favorite category, second as a second and so on. 

once you store category affinity array in profile script, fetch it into your code using "${user.profilescriptname}".(double/single quotes are mandatory while fetching profile script value)

Hope this helps.

[lambanitish]

thank you, @Gaureshk_Kodag 

I was looking for something direct out of the box like user.firstCategory but this will do.

Regards,

Nitish

[KeithDavo]

How do I tell our developer which fields to use as the category @Gaureshk_Kodag?

Say our data layer has two fields:

1. sections: ['World']
2. subject: ['NATO', 'NATO Summit', 'Politics of Sweden', 'International agreements', 'International relations', 'Politics of Turkey']

When I tell him to pass category as mbox parameter user.categoryId in global mbox on the product page, how does he only populate the affinities with the sections and subject values?

Thanks

[Gaureshk_Kodag]

You could ask your developer to pass the values in a comma separate format.

for example, user.categoryId=world, NATO, NATO Summit, Politics of Sweden, International agreements, International relations, Politics of Turkey