Developer Considerations for Explicit Recommendations
Product recommendations are considered best practice, but you can also use explicit recommendations if necessary.
- Existing Applications and Explicit Recommendations
Some Salesforce B2C Commerce storefront applications were developed using the product linking feature. This feature pre-dated the explicit recommendations feature in Business Manager and requires added considerations. - Developer Best Practices for Explicit Recommendations
When working with Explicit Recommendations, use these developer best practices. - General Considerations for Explicit Recommendations
When determining how to implement explicit recommendations, consider these planning and development phase guidelines. - Business Objects for Explicit Recommendations
Explicit recommendations use an extensible system object to include native attributes. - Analytics and Reporting for Explicit Recommendations
Salesforce B2C Commerce reports on recommendations using pipeline processing reports and system logs. - Developer Considerations for Product Recommendations
Developer work to define product recommendations includes modifying ISML templates, defining content slots, providing a unique ID, along with other customizations.
Infocenter Retirement: On June 30, 2023, the Infocenter was retired, and documentation currently hosted on the Infocenter will be published to Salesforce Help, Commerce Cloud Developer Center, and Salesforce B2C Commerce Developer Documentation Resources. For more information, see the release note.