Pages that have been deleted or removed are still showing up in Adobe Target Recommendations Collections and not sure how to get rid of them

[RYJO2021]

Hello, 

We have ran into an issue where older pages that have been deleted, removed, or forward to another page now are still showing up in the products collections. I thought I could exclude based on thumbnail being broken but the old thumbnail URL is still present. Any other ideas on how to get these old missing pages out of Target Rec's? 

[Gaureshk_Kodag]

Hi @RYJO2021 

You can create exclusion of unavailable pages, using entity ids or some common entity param. All the ids in exclusion will not be shown in recommendations.

Thanks,

Gauresh

[RYJO2021]

I'm aware of that route but it's not really sustainable as an enterprise to manually exclude pages. There must be a way to do it more efficiently. We are talking upwards of 4000 pages. 

[nnakirikanti · Accepted solution]

@RYJO2021 Most efficient way for bulk deletion of entities is to use API's, Refer https://developers.adobetarget.com/api/recommendations/#operation/deleteEntities  and recommended method for authentication is to use service user via Adobe I/O.

Authentication Configuration: https://developer.adobe.com/target/before-administer/configure-authentication/

Changes reflect as per below cadence

• Recommendations are updated within 15 minutes.
• Existing recommendations and item attributes are shown until updates are available.
• Catalog Search is updated after catalog index (3-8 hours).

Let me know if you need further details.