Target recommendation activity

[Sankaran]

Hello All,

Trying to setting up my first recommendation activity in AT. Completed uploading few products to product catalog via Recommendations API. How can we set up a basic or simple recommendation activity after this catalog set up? Sample use case like if a user searches a particular product , then displaying that product based on the search term. Would be really helpful to get the inputs. Thank you.

[Sankaran]

Oh okay @kandersen I am using the Most Viewed Items across the site. And I have used an Audience in the AEP which will qualify only for the Logged in users as the enity.id was not working for me . Hence as you mentioned, it might not work I guess then.

[kandersen]

So the only way you can 'fuel' the criterias is by using the entity.id on the site - products created in the catalogue, but don't have entity.id set on the product page on the website will not generate any behaviour and will therefore not be part of any critierias. Hopefully this makes sense?

[Sankaran]

Yes @kandersen  got it. Thank you. Though I used the hardcoded method of having the same entity.id in both catalog and the request to target call, I couldn't see the recommendation working somehow with the recently viewed criteria as how you demonstrated in the video. I will see if I can find some unique element on any of the page as you did for the article id in your video.

[Michael_Soprano]

@kandersen you mean that you do not need to create Feeds  if everything is passed from Web SDK and Feeds would be created by itself?

[kandersen]

Hi @Michael_Soprano 

Feeds are not necessarily required if you pass in all the necessary data via the site itself (webSDK or at.js). 

The feed won’t be created automatically, but it isn’t a requirement to run recommendations. Its a way of enriching/adding meta data to your products. 

I’ve used feeds/api when products needed to be updated more frequently than the product page itself was visited or when the site/data layer didn’t have all the relevant product details. 

[Michael_Soprano]

@kandersen so basically what we need to pass from web sdk into Target is only entity.id and all other product attributes regarding product would be taken from Feeds?

[kandersen]

Correct!

[Sankaran]

Hi @kandersen  Is there a documentation or the video recording containing full steps of creating a recommendation activity including the passing of entity.id to Adobe target with example and validating the recommendation content via the target calls. Also I am seeing one more issue as the meta object is not appearing only in the recommendation activity call but the same is coming in the A/B testing or the XT activity call with experience.name etc., Please do the needful on this . Thank you in advance.