Release Summary -  Aug 26, 2024 (24.16)

ENG-27287

Enterprise Dashboard:

Bundles Template in Dynamic Experiences

We have introduced a new Bundles Placement template in Dynamic Experiences, allowing optimization managers to easily add bundle placements to their sites for cross-selling complementary products. This template is fully customizable with various styles and configuration options.

The Bundles Placement template includes settings for font styles, region-specific configurations, and placement options, ensuring that it seamlessly integrates with your site’s design and functionality. It leverages the code from the Boots bundles experience as a foundation, with adjustments to accommodate the new variables and requirements.

ENG-28351

Recommend:

Enable Category Recommendations in recsUsingStrategy API

The recsUsingStrategy API now supports returning category recommendation data. When the "Enable Strategy to Recommend Categories" option is activated for a Configurable Strategy, and the appropriate parameters are included in the request, the API response will now provide detailed categoryRec information. This includes the category ID, name, link URL, and image URL.

This enhancement applies to both legacy and Configurable Strategies.

ENG-25945, ENG-28120

Recommend:

Filter products the user has already viewed in recommendations but not clicked

Digital merchandisers now have the ability to filter out products that a shopper has frequently seen in recommendations but has not interacted with, ensuring that customers are exposed to fresh product options. This new filtering option, available under the Do Not Recommend (DNR) rules in the User tab, allows merchandisers to specify the number of times a product can be shown in recommendations within a set lookback period (e.g., 10 days). If a product has been recommended more than the specified number of times without being clicked, it will no longer be shown.

Currently, this filter can be configured only at email placements level. The rule resets if a product is clicked, allowing it to be recommended again, ensuring that only relevant and engaging products are continuously presented to the shopper.

ENG-28609

Enterprise Dashboard:

Customizable Start Screen for Guided Selling 2.0

Guided Selling 2.0 has been enhanced to offer greater customization options for the start screen, allowing it to be displayed in a different location from the main quiz and with a unique background image. Digital optimization managers can now set separate background colors, title, and description font colors specifically for the start screen. Additionally, text can be placed in an inner div with customizable backgrounds to ensure readability over images.

ENG-26425

Enterprise Dashboard:

Guided Selling Template Styling Enhancements

We've refined the Guided Selling template styling for a better user experience. The start screen text is now centered within a container with adjustable opacity to reveal the background image. Error messages when no products are found are also centered in a container, with an added button to restart the quiz using the same start screen styling.

For mobile views, we've widened the screen container, added padding to question text, and expanded the progress bar and answer buttons. Recommendation styling has been tightened with reduced margins around images and smaller fonts for product names and prices. A new button in the top right of the recommendations allows users to restart the quiz, hiding results and starting over.

ENG-27398

Enterprise Dashboard:

Guided Selling 2.0 - UX Enhancements Implemented

Several UX enhancements have been made to the Guided Selling 2.0 experience, specifically addressing the Quiz step. These updates improve usability and design consistency, ensuring a smoother user experience. Key changes include hiding the Back button on the first quiz question, adjusting the main window height to keep the Save & Proceed button visible, and improving the color picker functionality. Additionally, clickable "Step" buttons have been made more intuitive, and the issue with the Start Screen reappearing after being disabled has been resolved.

ENG-28679

Enterprise Dashboard, Find:

UI Upgrade for Publish Button on Search and Browse Merchandising Page

The UI for the publish button on the Search and Browse merchandising pages has been upgraded. Previously, if all items were deleted from the boosts or links page, there was no option to remove them from Solr due to the absence of a publish button. With this enhancement, the publish button is now available even when no items are present on the page, similar to the functionality on the Visual Merchandising page. This ensures that changes can be effectively published regardless of the number of items on the page.

ENG-28823

Discover, Find:

Enhancement to Product Snapshot Property Definitions

We have enhanced the product snapshot property definitions by adding find attribute settings to the "recommendable" field. This update ensures that the "recommendable" field is now properly configured with find attribute settings, making it facetable and filterable, among other properties. Additionally, the "querytag_name" field has been updated to be sortable, allowing for more flexibility and precision in handling product data.

These changes enhance the functionality and manageability of product snapshots, ensuring that key fields are configured to meet the evolving needs of product recommendation and search operations.

ENG-28692

Discover, Find:

Enhancement to RuleIndexBuilder Job for Pinned Product Rules

We have updated the RuleIndexBuilder job to save pinned product rules directly to Find Solr via the streaming catalog. This adjustment streamlines the process of managing pinned product rules.

ENG-28267

Find:

Implementation of Case Insensitive Search for Vector Data

We have enhanced the search functionality by implementing case-insensitive search when fetching vector data from the query tag collection. This improvement ensures more consistent and accurate search results, regardless of the case used in the search queries.

ENG-28691

Discover, Find:

Adjustments to Play Service for Pinned Products Merchandising Rules

The play service has been updated to support the saving of Pinned Products merchandising rules for both Find and Discover.

ENG-28426

Find:

Hybrid Search - Query Tag Name Retrieval Fix

We have resolved an issue where the query tag name was incorrectly fetched from the query tag schema instead of the query vector schema in the search service during vector search queries. This issue has now been fixed.

ENG-28070

Find, Science:

Creation of Vectors for Search Queries

We have enhanced the system by adding a job that converts search queries into vectors for use with Find. This job reads input queries and generates corresponding vectors, which are then used to search Solr for product vectors closely matching the search query vector. This enhancement ensures that search vectors are created similarly to product catalog vectors, utilizing OpenAI embeddings. Vectors for previously converted queries are now efficiently sourced from the cache.

ENG-28860

Find, Science:

Schema Per Site for Storing Catalog Embeddings

We have implemented a schema-per-site approach for storing catalog embeddings, ensuring better organization and management of data. A dedicated schema, such as catalog_0xxxx.find_catalog_embeddings, is now created for each site. This enhancement involved creating the necessary change scripts, updating table names in the data science catalog embeddings job, and adjusting the Find catalog vector job accordingly. Data is now stored in the appropriate site-specific schemas.

ENG-28479

Enterprise Dashboard: Prevent Single Line Comments in Layouts

We have addressed an issue where single line comments in layouts were causing unintended display of products from different customers in email recommendations. Since our layouts compile into a single line, all content following a single line comment was being commented out, leading to these errors. To prevent this, the layout editor will now check for single line JavaScript comments (//) before allowing a layout to be saved. If detected, an alert will prompt the user to modify comments to the multi-line format.

ENG-28682

Message Type Page Not Loading When Creating Variation

We have resolved an issue where the "Message Type" page was not loading correctly during the creation of a social proof campaign. Users encountered a persistent loading message after selecting the context and clicking "Save and Proceed." The issue has been fixed, and the Message Type page now loads as expected.

ENG-28850

Enterprise Dashboard:

Social Proof Messages - Reordering Issue Resolved

We have fixed an issue on the Social Proof message page where reordering message types was not being saved correctly. After changing the order and saving, the message order would revert to its original state upon returning to the page. The issue has been addressed, and the message order now persists as expected after saving.

ENG-28725

Enterprise Dashboard:

Disabled "Use Region As A Seed" Option for Unsupported Models

A bug has been fixed where the "Use Region As A Seed" option was incorrectly available for certain configurable strategy models that do not support this feature. The affected models include Top Sellers Offline, Top Sellers Omni Channel, DSW Strategy, NLP Similarity, NLP Cross Sell, and User Browse History. The "Use Region As A Seed" option is now properly disabled and unchecked for these models, ensuring the correct configuration settings are applied.

ENG-28768

Fixed Issue with TopProducts Azkaban Job Pipeline Execution

A bug has been addressed where the TopProducts Azkaban job failed to generate files when the aggregation part was skipped. This issue caused the MR pipeline in the TopProducts job not to trigger, leading to incomplete processing. The problem has now been resolved, ensuring that the pipeline runs correctly even when the aggregation step is skipped.

ENG-28771

Find, Recommend:

Fix for Restriction Rule Not Working in Find

A bug affecting the Restriction Rules in Find has been resolved. The issue prevented rules from working as expected when trying to exclude certain products, such as "colete" (vest), from search results for "casaco feminino" (women's coat). The problem occurred both when using ProductIDs and Product Attributes in the Restriction Rules. The configuration for "enable recommendations restrictions for find" is now functioning correctly, ensuring that exclusion rules are applied as intended.

ENG-28795

Discover, Recommend, UPS

Fix for Restriction Rules Not Filtering Recommendations

A bug affecting Restriction Rules in the recommendation engine has been resolved. The issue prevented the rules from properly filtering out products that did not match the specified user attributes, such as EligibleSalesOrgs and PromoEligibleSalesOrgs, during recommendation requests. As a result, products that should have been excluded based on these attributes were incorrectly included in the recommendations. The issue has been addressed, and the Restriction Rules are now functioning correctly, ensuring that only matching products are recommended.

ENG-28834

Enterprise Dashboard:

Fix for Browse Configuration Page Not Loading

An issue that prevented the Browse Configuration page from loading has been resolved. The problem was caused by the removal of "charser=utf-8" from the discoverConfig.js file. The necessary corrections have been made, and the page now loads properly.

ENG-28910

Enterprise Dashboard:

Fix for Missing Information in Restriction Rules

An issue where critical information, such as the name, date, and other details, was missing when opening certain Restriction Rules has been resolved. The problem was identified when clients attempted to view specific rules, and errors were returned in the console. The necessary corrections have been made, and the information is now displayed correctly when accessing these rules.

ENG-28916

Enterprise Dashboard:

Fix for Sorting by User Affinity Option in Engage Campaigns

An issue preventing the deselection of the "Sort selected content by User Affinity" option in Engage campaigns has been resolved. Previously, when users attempted to uncheck this option and save the rule, the option remained selected. This issue has now been fixed now.

ENG-28849

Find:

Correction in Autosuggestion Job for Scoped Action Handling

A bug in the Autosuggestion job caused errors due to incorrect handling of scoped actions during business rules updates. The issue stemmed from improper handling of the Snapshot/ScopedAction object. This issue has now been fixed.

ENG-28835

Find:

Sitewide Product Boost Rule Fix

We have resolved an issue where the sitewide product boost rule caused certain products to always appear at the top of search results, regardless of the search query. For instance, a product like "dell lattitude abc" would consistently appear first, even when searching for unrelated items like "mango" or "fork." This issue has now been fixed.