Category Recommendation Web Activity shows categories from current catalog only Technote
(troubleshooting)Problem(Abstract) Your storefront uses multiple sales catalogs, and you have created a Web Activity with an activity type of Category Recommendation with categories from different catalogs. However, after configuration, the Web activity shows up on the storefront as an e-Marketing spot, and it only displays categories from the current catalog (catalog_id in the browser URL). Cause The default behavior of the e-Marketing spot is to display categories and products from the current catalog only. However you can configure the various filters of the e-Marketing spot to change this behavior. Resolving the problem To allow an e-Marketing spot to display categories from multiple catalogs, and not just the current one, then filter disable is called CATEGORY_IN_CURRENT_CATALOG.
This CATEGORY_IN_CURRENT_CATALOG maps to a constant value of 17.
You can disable this filter (and not restrict to the e-spot current catalog only) by adding this code into the JSP snippet which calls the default bean.
For example, the default snippet to display an e-Marketing Spot is:
WC_eardir\Stores.war\storedir\include\eMarketingSpotDisplay.jsp
In this JSP, locate the end of this useBean snippet, and add the following code before the </wcbase:useBean> tag:
<c:set value="17" target="${eMarketingSpot}" property="resultFilterOff"/>
For example (see line second from the bottom):
<c:choose>
<c:when test="${param.maxNumDisp>0}">
<c:set value="${param.maxNumDisp}" target="${eMarketingSpot}" property="maximumNumberOfCatalogEntries" />
<c:set value="${param.maxNumDisp}" target="${eMarketingSpot}" property="maximumNumberOfCategories" />
<c:set value="${param.maxNumDisp}" target="${eMarketingSpot}" property="maximumNumberOfCollateral" />
<c:set value="${param.maxNumDisp}" target="${eMarketingSpot}"
property="maximumNumberOfAssociateCatalogEntries" />
</c:when>
<c:otherwise>
<c:set value="4" target="${eMarketingSpot}" property="maximumNumberOfCatalogEntries" />
<c:set value="4" target="${eMarketingSpot}" property="maximumNumberOfCategories" />
<c:set value="3" target="${eMarketingSpot}" property="maximumNumberOfCollateral" />
<c:set value="4" target="${eMarketingSpot}" property="maximumNumberOfAssociateCatalogEntries" />
</c:otherwise>
</c:choose>
<c:set value="17" target="${eMarketingSpot}" property="resultFilterOff"/>
</wcbase:useBean>
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