How to set display value in fredhopper claims in trigger-type.xml to show in SmartTarget UI?

Question

Setting up triggers in trigger-type.xml is done as below

<trigger-type basetype="text" url-param="search_productcategory" name="Product – Category">
    <list-of-values multiselect="true">
      <value>C1</value>
      <value>C2</value>
     </list-of-values>
  </trigger-type>

Here SmartTarget UI will display these two triggers as below

C1
C2

Is there any way to show a display value in the SmartTarget UI, like we used to do in simple dropdowns on website?

For example:

• "Radio" instead of "C1"
• "WalkMan" instead of "C2"
• etc.

Answer 1

It is possible, although not as easy as one might have hoped. You will need to use the localization service from Fredhopper to assign these "user friendly labels" to each value.

SmartTarget does this for some triggers, like the Segments from Audience Manager (which are really URIs but are displayed using the Title of the Segment).

The process is rather involved, but there is a helper class available in the SmartTarget Java API that greatly simplifies the process: LocalizationHelper (in the com.tridion.smarttarget.utils package). Feel free to use that one to add your labels. You are responsible for keeping the labels up-to-date, though, if the titles change :)