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Recommendations - Exclude articles that are already viewed

  • November 10, 2020
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We have just started with the recommendation functionality in Target. We want to use the 'Most popular' algorithm on the page, but want to exclude the articles that are already viewed by the visitor. How can we set this up in Target for recommendations? With the exclusion functionality?

 

 

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Best answer by evidana

Adobe Target handles this out of the box as long as you have entity.id parameter for the Target call set up on the product pages. There is also a checkbox in the criteria creation screen to allow/disallow recommendations to be previously purchased (I think). In order for purchase to populate for the user profile, an order conversion will have to take place.

https://experienceleague.adobe.com/docs/dtm/implementing/target/configure-target/mboxes/order-confirmation-mbox.html?lang=en#order-confirmation-mbox

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November 10, 2020

Adobe Target handles this out of the box as long as you have entity.id parameter for the Target call set up on the product pages. There is also a checkbox in the criteria creation screen to allow/disallow recommendations to be previously purchased (I think). In order for purchase to populate for the user profile, an order conversion will have to take place.

https://experienceleague.adobe.com/docs/dtm/implementing/target/configure-target/mboxes/order-confirmation-mbox.html?lang=en#order-confirmation-mbox

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November 18, 2020
I think it would be good to look at the debug params that come along with Target. Go into Admin / Implementation and generate a new debug token and include that with your request. You should see a different sort of response that includes mboxTrace. It should output the profile of the user in question. What you want to look for is user.endpoint.lastPurchasedEntity. Let me know if that yields any insight..