Release Summary - Nov 14, 2024 (24.22)

ENG-29102

Ensemble AI, Science:

Customizable Complimentary Color Mapping

Ensemble AI now supports customizable complimentary color mapping, allowing clients to define specific color combinations for ensembles through the model build configuration. Clients can use the model options API to view and adjust default color pairings, enabling brand-aligned color coordination. For instance, clients can configure the model to avoid certain pairings, like red with black, enhancing brand consistency in outfit recommendations.

ENG-29268

Ensemble AI, Science:

Ensemble AI API Call Count Reporting

Ensemble AI now offers API call count reporting, allowing merchandisers to track daily usage via TS visualizations for greater billing transparency. API calls are logged through Avro logs, capturing metrics like Site ID, Site Name, Method, Date, and Total Call Count. This enables teams to monitor API activity effectively. The reporting is viewable through TS visualizations, similar to the Find API reporting, with the dashboard update pending.

ENG-29090

Ensemble AI, MVT, Science:

Ensemble AI: MVT Site Configuration

This update enables Digital Optimization Managers to export Dynamic Experience and Social Proof reports, allowing for easy sharing of detailed report insights with stakeholders. Available in both CSV and Excel formats, the export includes all metrics along with lift and confidence values, and provides an option to download visualizations.

ENG-27761

Data Engineering:

Co-occurrence Report: Customizable Co-Purchase Category Selection

The Co-occurrence Report now enables merchandisers to customize their view by selecting specific co-purchase categories to include in the report. This feature allows users to filter the co-purchase data based on categories of interest.

Merchandisers can select one or multiple categories, including higher-level categories, with all associated subcategories automatically included. A primary category flag is also added to the rollup data, streamlining category management and ensuring reports reflect only the most relevant co-purchase relationships.

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Data Engineering, Find:

Find Reports - Enhanced Reporting with findCallType and Response Style

Find Reports now include the parameters findCallType and response style within the visit logs, enabling more granular reporting from the find API calls.

Notably, findCallType entries tagged as "overlay" are excluded from reporting if they don't involve a search tracking URL click. Similarly, reports will exclude entries where the response type is "facet only," ensuring that the metrics reflect only meaningful search interactions. 

ENG-28081

Data Engineering, MVT:

New Social Proof A/B Testing Support

Merchandisers can now conduct A/B testing specifically for social proof configurations through a newly added SOCIAL_PROOF test type. This functionality allows users to enable or disable the social proof feature for a specified percentage of traffic, providing insight into social proof impact on engagement and conversions.

The new setup also supports the includeMVTDetailedData parameter for both the productEventMetrics and spMessages APIs, along with the mvt_ftr preview feature, enhancing control over test previews and data accuracy. 

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Enterprise Dashboard:

Export/Download Dynamic Experience and Social Proof Reports

Export Dynamic Experience and Social Proof Reports

Digital Optimization Managers can now export the Dynamic Experience and Social Proof reports in CSV or Excel formats, making it easier to share insights with external stakeholders. The export includes all metrics, along with lift and confidence values, and supports downloading visualizations.

ENG-29386

Find:

New Find Stack: Enhanced Index Matching in Find Deployer

The Find Deployer on the new Find stack now includes a check to match indexProperties.numFound before activating the alias, ensuring data accuracy prior to deployment.

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Find:

Include numFound and JavaBin Properties in Batch Index Zip

The batch index zip now contains additional properties, including index.numFound and javabin.totalNumFound, in the indexProperties file. This enhancement allows for more accurate tracking of document counts in index downloads, aiding in comprehensive data validation for all job types.

ENG-29406

Find:

New Error Bucket for MAX_BOOLEAN_CLAUSE Solr Exception

A new error bucket has been added to handle MAX_BOOLEAN_CLAUSE exceptions in the search service on J11. This categorization allows for better tracking and resolution of errors related to Boolean clause limits in Solr queries.

ENG-29341

Find:

Offmenu Plugin Performance Improvement

Performance improvements have been implemented for the offmenu plugin, enhancing its efficiency.

ENG-29101

Recommend:

Update to Configurable Strategies with UPS Seed Options

Existing configurable strategies using UPS seed options have been updated to maintain prior functionality. For strategies where seedStrategy is set to ACCUMULATE, the seedLimit is now set to 5. For strategies where seedStrategy is set to FIRST_VALID, the seedLimit is set to 1.

ENG-29255

Engage:

Dashboard Support for Enhanced Tags Syntax

Digital marketers can now add Enhanced Tags directly via the dashboard, enabling content sorting by affinity. Tags added in the expected syntax (brand:, category:, or attribute:) will be treated as Enhanced Tags, aligning them with specific brands, categories, or attribute key-value pairs. When the Content Model is rebuilt, these tags will automatically assign the content to the designated brand, category, or attribute, providing seamless tag integration and improved content organization.

PLAT-3840

UPS:

Wishlist Items Now Stored in User Profile Service (UPS)

To enhance personalization, our platform now stores wishlist items in UPS, allowing finer adjustments based on products customers add to their wishlists. Each product’s ID, brand, category, SKU, price, and quantity will be stored in a dedicated "Wishlist" section within UPS, supporting up to 20 items by default. Wishlist changes, such as adding or removing items, are captured in real-time through front-end instrumentation and API updates, ensuring that UPS accurately reflects the latest customer preferences.

PLAT-3871

UPS:

Tracking "Remove from Cart" Events in UPS

To improve recommendation accuracy, the platform now captures "Remove from Cart" events directly from RRserver, logging each product removal in UPS. This enables merchandisers to generate recommendations that reflect the most current items in a shopper’s cart, even if the shopper hasn’t revisited the cart page. Through enhanced front-end instrumentation and API updates, detailed product information—such as ID, brand, category, SKU, price, and quantity—is tracked for each removal event.

ENG-29374

Data Engineering, Data Reporting:

Addition of include_star Attribute to ThoughtSpot Configuration

The include_star attribute has been successfully integrated into the thoughtspot.properties file in production. This attribute, relevant to the find report, is now configured and fully operational within the ThoughtSpot environment for enhanced reporting accuracy.

ENG-29329

Data Engineering, Social Message:

Logging of User and Channel Information in SP-API

The SP-API now logs User ID, Session ID, and Channel information in the API call log when these details are provided in the request. This enhancement ensures that User ID (u or userId), Session ID (s or sessionId), and Channel (cak or apiClientKey) are captured in HDFS, providing more comprehensive logging and tracking of API calls.

ENG-29356

Data Engineering, Data Reporting, Social Message:

Log Social Proof API Calls for Server-Side Integrated Clients

The Social Proof API now logs all server-side API calls ("spMessages") for enhanced reporting and tracking. This logging is added to avro logs to monitor daily usage by each site, capturing details such as Site ID, Site Name, Method, Date, and Total Call Count. These insights are visualized in TS reports, similar to existing Find API reporting, providing merchandisers with a clear view of API call volumes for better usage analysis and billing transparency.

ENG-29339

Recommend:

Log Social Proof API Calls for Server-Side Integrated Clients

The Social Proof API now logs all server-side API calls ("spMessages") for enhanced reporting and tracking. This logging is added to avro logs to monitor daily usage by each site, capturing details such as Site ID, Site Name, Method, Date, and Total Call Count. These insights are visualized in TS reports, similar to existing Find API reporting, providing merchandisers with a clear view of API call volumes.

ENG-29379

Engage :

Engage Content Affinity Ordering Issue Resolved

An issue was identified in Engage where content ordering by affinity was not functioning as expected, resulting in a seemingly random order of prioritized content. For example, "Carbonated drinks" content was intended to consistently appear before "Yogurt" based on affinity but was occasionally displayed in random order.

This issue has now been resolved, ensuring that content is ordered correctly by affinity,

ENG-29299

Enterprise Dashboard:

Set a Max Width/Height on Images in User Affinity Configuration

Images on the User Affinity Configuration page now display within a fixed box of 150x150 pixels, ensuring consistent sizing during preview.

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Enterprise Dashboard:

Category Recs Image Not Displaying on Recs Test Drive

An issue was identified where category recommendation images were not displayed correctly in the Recs Test Drive due to encoded URL values. The system now decodes these URLs, allowing images to be rendered as expected. This fix ensures category images display accurately for a seamless user experience in the Recs Test Drive. The issue has been resolved.

ENG-29219

Enterprise Dashboard:

Guided Selling - Duplicate Experience Created

An issue was identified in Guided Selling where creating a new experience resulted in the unintended creation of two instances—one with a variation and one without. Similarly, adding a new variation to an existing experience sometimes generated duplicate variations. This fix ensures only a single experience or variation is created as intended. The issue has been resolved.

ENG-28987

Enterprise Dashboard:

Fixes to Product Comparison UI

Updates to the Product Comparison UI now improve clarity and functionality. The "Product Attribute" label has been renamed to "Attribute Blacklist" with a tooltip noting that blacklisted attributes won’t appear in Product Comparison placements. When creating new rules, blacklisted attributes are automatically excluded.

ENG-29168

Enterprise Dashboard:

Search Term Expansion - Export Hover Issue Fixed

Previously, hovering over the Export button on the Search Term Expansion page incorrectly logged user activity as an export action. This issue has been corrected, ensuring activity logs only capture actual exports rather than hover actions. The issue has been resolved.

ENG-29411

DSW rrDatameshJob Docker Container Exit Issue and Log Improvements

The rrDatameshJob docker container was not exiting after completing its task, causing it to run continuously. This issue has been resolved to ensure the container exits properly post-task, along with improvements to log clarity.

ENG-29424

Enterprise Dashboard:

Guided Selling: Unable to Enter Price Range in Activity-Based Quiz

In the Guided Selling quiz flow on the REI site, users were unable to input values for minimum and maximum price ranges on Screen kay-3, limiting their ability to filter quiz results based on price. This bug has been resolved.

ENG-29317

Enterprise Dashboard, Find:

Boost/Deboost Search Rules: Unable to Set Negative Value with Arrows

In the Boost/Deboost search rules interface, users faced an issue where they could not set a negative boost value using the arrow keys, as the field would stop at zero and generate an error. This issue has been resolved, allowing users to adjust boost values into the negative range smoothly using the arrows.