Timeline for What are the options for integrating SmartTarget if using MVC or DD4T?
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| Jul 31, 2014 at 2:11 | comment | added | Alvin Reyes | Missed the last comment, but I understand that's how it should work. But let me confirm in a separate question. | |
| Nov 20, 2013 at 11:56 | comment | added | Neil | So the TCDL tag would need to be part of the DD4T XML, and with my template output to REL and Tridion will do the rest? | |
| Nov 20, 2013 at 11:07 | comment | added | Alvin Reyes |
Considering tcdl brings modules together across to delivery, definitely take a look maybe starting with certain pages, templates, or views. For example Experience Manager recognizes SmartTarget tcdl regions and REL/tcdl works over CD Webservice, .NET, and Java (and gets updates with new releases).
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| Nov 20, 2013 at 9:41 | comment | added | Neil | Perhaps I need to read up on REL and TCDL a little more - we're close to delivering a DD4T/MVC site where SmartTarget was installed and we went with querying FH directly -admittedly we weren't doing regions/promotions/campaigns more faceted content so just needed to get the content out. | |
| Nov 20, 2013 at 9:33 | comment | added | Peter Kjaer | Also you cannot get Fredhopper to filter on the regions (it's a custom field). Anyway, as I said there might be reasons to bypass SmartTarget in some specific cases but I would first exhaust all over options. SmartTarget is essentially an integration with Fredhopper, so if you bypass it you're just making your own integration :) | |
| Nov 20, 2013 at 9:27 | comment | added | Peter Kjaer | Not exactly - fh_view_size is the number of items per page and I think it's only when displaying items (so not the ones returned from Promotions). The way the MaxItems property works in SmartTarget is restricting the total number of CPs to display across all returned Promotions. | |
| Nov 20, 2013 at 9:24 | comment | added | Neil | Not sure about regions, but isn't max items just "fh_view_size"? Ultimately filtering can be achieved using the Fredhopper Query Language can't it - I agree though that tags and controls make this easier. | |
| Nov 20, 2013 at 9:04 | comment | added | Peter Kjaer | You absolutely can, but I would consider that a last resort since you lose the functionality added by SmartTarget. An example of that would be the filtering by region and maximum items - you'd need to implement that yourself then. The tags and controls (and the API) are there to help you query Fredhopper easily and display the results correctly. It's rare that you would need to go directly to Fredhopper. | |
| Nov 19, 2013 at 20:23 | history | answered | Neil | CC BY-SA 3.0 |