Release Summary - February 09, 2023

The following key features and improvements, along with bug fixes, have been released in the Algonomy products during Jan 30 – Feb 9, 2023.

Data Engineering

Include Eligibility Flag in MVT Response in Front-End

Marketers may need to know which test a user is in or where they can get a list of tests for the site to know which test to use for reporting. To fulfill these requirements the MVT response API has been updated with the eligibility flag to be available on the front-end.

Find

Added Currency Dimension and ATC Rate Metric in Find ‘Search Terms’ Report

Find Search Terms report can now filter the report by currency and enable the user to select currency and region similar to other reports and view Add to Cart (ATC) metric along with other metrics. Currency is defaulted to the currency of the site location. On selection of the metric, user can also view the graph visualization.

Other Feature Enhancements

Jira #	Module/Title	Summary
PLAT-3307 & PLAT-3367	UPS: UPS merge batch attribute	A logic has been introduced to update user attributes events with batch attributes if the key is same and timestamp is latest. This merge is site specific and can be controlled based on the mergeBatchAttribute flag in consul configuration. User can configure the UPS Merge Batch Attribute from Admin > SiteConfigurationsRR in the Omnichannel Personalization platform.
ENG-25216	Data Engineering: Update all visit events to Include Session ID, Device ID, and User ID of a User	A user can be part of a segment but have not logged in to the site, such users can either be recognized by the session id or device id (rrguid), most likely to be recognized by the rrguid, for personalization. The views in visits have ExternalSessionID and ExternalUserID present but not didn’t have RRGuid, which has been added to the view schema in visits. The clicks in visits didn’t have any of the above 3 IDs present. All 3 IDs have been added to the click schema in visits.
ENG-25215	Social Proof: Social proof location selector should work with empty div	Earlier, social proof location selector did not display the message if the div was empty (0 pixel). Social Proof message now renders fine inside HTML having height and width set to 0 or more.
ENG-25189	Social Proof: Optimization for real-time configurable strategies	Social proof messages now support displaying Top Products and Unique user counts for a given siteId, productId, eventType, and timeWindow. Also, supports running the social proof messaging with different configuration compared to real-time configuration strategies.
ENG-25188	Social Proof: Create separate jobs for Social Proof & Real-time configurable strategies	Social proof now can identify appropriate jobs for Social Proof & Real-time Configuration based on feature set. That is, all clients with social proof should be part of 1 job & clients with real-time configurable strategies should be part of a different job.
ENG-25180	Social Proof: Optimizing Social Messaging	Isolated the social messaging component in the existing social proof pipeline to run this component alone through a separate consul configuration. Optimized its processing layer to reduce the pressure on the heap memory.
ENG-25135	Data Engineering: Score Card Rollup (Report) to include products not viewed/ATC/purchased from catalog	This score card report on catalog activities (views/ATC/purchases) will help marketer understand how much of the catalog is actively viewed by shoppers for various activities and hence Identify action items if it is falling below certain threshold specific to a client.
ENG-24868	Enterprise Dashboard > Find: UI improvements in Find Test Drive	The current Find Test Drive UI has been improved by adding mouse over to labels with explanatory text such as: Personalization Balance: Higher the number, higher the personalized results. View Boost Progression: Each product view increases boost weights of learned synonyms.
ENG-24725	Find: Making iemV2 changes in Streaming Find Indexer (SFI)	ItemV2 changes are merged in master.
ENG-24482	Data Engineering: Create scorecard report based on visit logs	Some clients requested to provide Scorecard Report based on visit logs of the customers to be displayed on Tableau for a specified time period. Rollups for the following scorecard reports are now available. Catalog Exposure Missing Categories Missing or Non-Recommendable Products Pages without User Session.
ENG-24437	Science: Track status using common status service	Support managers can now know if there is any model job failure and report the problem in detail immediately.
ENG-17795	Data Engineering: Summary Report for Sales from Recommendations and Recommendation Sales %	Digital marketer can see a summary of sales from recommendations and recommendation sales % to understand the high-level value provided by recommendations with charts.

Jira #

Module/Title

Summary

PLAT-3307 &

PLAT-3367

UPS:

UPS merge batch attribute

A logic has been introduced to update user attributes events with batch attributes if the key is same and timestamp is latest. This merge is site specific and can be controlled based on the mergeBatchAttribute flag in consul configuration.

User can configure the UPS Merge Batch Attribute from Admin > SiteConfigurationsRR in the Omnichannel Personalization platform.

ENG-25216

Data Engineering:

Update all visit events to Include Session ID, Device ID, and User ID of a User

A user can be part of a segment but have not logged in to the site, such users can either be recognized by the session id or device id (rrguid), most likely to be recognized by the rrguid, for personalization.

The views in visits have ExternalSessionID and ExternalUserID present but not didn’t have RRGuid, which has been added to the view schema in visits.

The clicks in visits didn’t have any of the above 3 IDs present. All 3 IDs have been added to the click schema in visits.

ENG-25215

Social Proof:

Social proof location selector should work with empty div

Earlier, social proof location selector did not display the message if the div was empty (0 pixel). Social Proof message now renders fine inside HTML having height and width set to 0 or more.

ENG-25189

Social Proof:

Optimization for real-time configurable strategies

Social proof messages now support displaying Top Products and Unique user counts for a given siteId, productId, eventType, and timeWindow.

Also, supports running the social proof messaging with different configuration compared to real-time configuration strategies.

ENG-25188

Social Proof:

Create separate jobs for Social Proof & Real-time configurable strategies

Social proof now can identify appropriate jobs for Social Proof & Real-time Configuration based on feature set. That is, all clients with social proof should be part of 1 job & clients with real-time configurable strategies should be part of a different job.

ENG-25180

Social Proof:

Optimizing Social Messaging

Isolated the social messaging component in the existing social proof pipeline to run this component alone through a separate consul configuration. Optimized its processing layer to reduce the pressure on the heap memory.

ENG-25135

Data Engineering:

Score Card Rollup (Report) to include products not viewed/ATC/purchased from catalog

This score card report on catalog activities (views/ATC/purchases) will help marketer understand how much of the catalog is actively viewed by shoppers for various activities and hence Identify action items if it is falling below certain threshold specific to a client.

ENG-24868

Enterprise Dashboard > Find:

UI improvements in Find Test Drive

The current Find Test Drive UI has been improved by adding mouse over to labels with explanatory text such as:

Personalization Balance: Higher the number, higher the personalized results.

View Boost Progression: Each product view increases boost weights of learned synonyms.

ENG-24725

Find:

Making iemV2 changes in Streaming Find Indexer (SFI)

ItemV2 changes are merged in master.

ENG-24482

Data Engineering:

Create scorecard report based on visit logs

Some clients requested to provide Scorecard Report based on visit logs of the customers to be displayed on Tableau for a specified time period. Rollups for the following scorecard reports are now available.

Catalog Exposure

Missing Categories

Missing or Non-Recommendable Products Pages without User Session.

ENG-24437

Science:

Track status using common status service

Support managers can now know if there is any model job failure and report the problem in detail immediately.

ENG-17795

Data Engineering:

Summary Report for Sales from Recommendations and Recommendation Sales %

Digital marketer can see a summary of sales from recommendations and recommendation sales % to understand the high-level value provided by recommendations with charts.

Bugs and Support Fixes

Jira#	Title	Summary
ENG-25279	UPS: Order details missing from user profile	User data including order details were not listed in User Profile for some sites. This issue has been fixed and all user data is now displayed fine in the portal.
ENG-25253	Data Engineering: LogJsonfier application IPV6 conversion issue	There was issue when converting user IP array bytes to IP address. Conversion of IPV4 addresses were working fine, but there was an issue in the conversion of IPV6 addresses. This issue has been fixed now.
ENG-24975	Experience Browser: Fixing JSON Syntax Error in Experience Browser	The JSON object error is arising for many clients and affecting the internal CFRAD UI which is used frequently by the support and consultant team. This issue was introduced from the release 22.45.0 and this has been fixed now.

Jira#

Title

Summary

ENG-25279

UPS:

Order details missing from user profile

User data including order details were not listed in User Profile for some sites. This issue has been fixed and all user data is now displayed fine in the portal.

ENG-25253

Data Engineering:

LogJsonfier application IPV6 conversion issue

There was issue when converting user IP array bytes to IP address. Conversion of IPV4 addresses were working fine, but there was an issue in the conversion of IPV6 addresses. This issue has been fixed now.

ENG-24975

Experience Browser:

Fixing JSON Syntax Error in Experience Browser

The JSON object error is arising for many clients and affecting the internal CFRAD UI which is used frequently by the support and consultant team. This issue was introduced from the release 22.45.0 and this has been fixed now.