Hi @mysticDeveloper We experienced this, you may be running into TNT-37455: QA mode for Recommendations activities. A known issue prevents preview if criteria used in the activity is item-based or category-based.https://experienceleague.adobe.com/docs/target/using/release-notes/known-issues-resolved...

Clients often ask how long it will take entity & criteria updates to appear on their site. I haven't had a definitive answer other than "90 minutes or tomorrow morning" What is the rule of thumb for how long it will take for an entity update to appear live, end to end, using different methods of upd...

That article talks about escaping reserved characters ($) in a design template (Velocity). My question was around escaping the value of the entity's output. In particular, double quotes in content cause problems when trying to generate JSON syntax or HTML attribute syntax.My solution: Without the ab...

Jon, it's great to have you here! I see that you updated the JSON documentation, which is great! I've been working with various Velocity commands & discovered that the following works (adapted from your example above):#* * "Return a simple list of recommended entity ids" *# { "notes":{ "purpose": "R...

Do Recommendations Designs support escaping of characters for formats they need to be delivered in? This seems critical to producing valid syntax in Design results. Examples: JavaScript needs escaped quotes (\" and \'): entityTitle = "HD 48\" TV & speakers"HTML attributes need HTML encoding " for do...

Jon, that is a fantastic response, thank you so much. I'm still going through it. A bunch of great info.What isn't clear to me is the second issue of my original message: how do I keep entity values with single and double quotes from breaking JSON syntax? Our product names have measurements & posses...

I don't think that addresses it. Your linked doc discussed how to pass JSON as a parameter INTO an MBOX request.The doc I linked to says that it is possible to get JSON containing recommendations results/contents OUT of Target... in the result of a mbox call. The purpose is to take the JSON content ...

On the Design Overview page of the Recommendations documentation it says "Target can also return recommendations as a JSON object." It gives an example output of the JSON that can be generated. However, the topic of generating JSON is not discussed anywhere in that section. I imagine this is either ...