Define recommendations

Now you must add one or more actions to define which items will display as recommendations. This is also where you specify the target feed, which determines where the recommendations display on the target page.

If defining conditions, you need to understand the different condition types available in Content Recommender.

This task shows you how to:

See Also
Define triggers
About recommendation condition and action types
Testing rules

Recommendation actions vs. trigger conditions

While the types and the process to create a recommendation action are nearly identical to creating trigger conditions, their purposes are different:

  • Trigger conditions define when to launch a rule.

  • Recommendation actions define which items to recommend.

Define recommendations

  1. From the Business Console home page, click Recommendation > Rules.
  2. From the Rules dashboard, click the rule you want to modify.
  3. On the Recommendations tab, complete the Options box:
    1. For Display feed, select the feed that will display the recommendations.
    2. For Nb Results, enter the maximum number of recommendations to display
    3. For Sort by, enter the field to sort by, and then choose Ascending or Descending from the drop-down to the right.
  4. Define a content query. In the Actions box, click Add action.
  5. Select an Action type, and then click Accept. Typically, your Exalead CloudView administrator will have created some pre-defined actions. These appear at the top of the list.
  6. In the Actions box, select or specify the action values. Click anywhere in the box to accept these values.

You are now ready to activate your rule.