Content Recommendation Block

Paul McGann (Netcel)

Vote:

Hi,

I am trying to use the content recommenation block as per the github repo https://github.com/episerver/ContentRecommendationBlock.

However when I run the example code it does not return any results.

I then tried the api endpoint using postman and this was able to return the results fine.

Has anyone else tried to use this block and had similar issues?

Thanks

Paul

#197780

Oct 12, 2018 12:58

Phu Nguyen

Vote:

Hi Paul,

As you can see the code here: https://github.com/episerver/ContentRecommendationBlock/blob/master/Services/RecommendationsController.cs#L43

After receiving data from RecommendationService, it will try to resolve friendlyUrl from the result's ContentLink. So I think the reason might be:

RecommendationService returns no data.
Returned data do not match with any content in the current site (because using the same setting/keys for several sites...).

I've tested the sample block and the result might differ between users (anonymous, logged-in users...), but I think you should debug the code for sure.

Phu

#198797

Nov 07, 2018 5:14

Paul McGann (Netcel)

Vote:

Hi Phu,

I know the Recommendation Service has data, it was just strange that if we called that controller over ajax it works perfect, but if we used this as a normal block and passed the data back in the viewmodel it wouldn't.

I was therefore thinking it must be looking for something from the request that it needs to communicate with the RecommendationService.

We have went with the ajax approach for now, but would like to know more why this call to the recommendation service would not work in a normal controller call.

Thanks

#198825

Nov 07, 2018 10:00