The Best Buy Search allows to search products specifying a criterion on details.name and details.value fields.
http://api.remix.bestbuy.com/v1/products(details.name="Processor Speed" & details.value="2.4Ghz")?apiKey=YOURKEY
However details is a collection. The query above actually returns all products has a detail entry named "processor" and a detail entry whose value is "2.4Ghz" but not necessarily in the same details entry. Is there a way to create a query that will return only products for which those value and name are for the same details entry ?
Unfortunately there is no way to do this unless the particular detail you are interested in has been exposed as a top level attribute (processor speed has not). To accomplish this you will need to run your query as you have described, and then comb through the results and remove the irrelevant products in your own code.
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Each product has two xp parameters - productLine, productType.
Under productLine, there are multiple product types.
I need to fetch list of distinct productType under each productLine.
There is limit on listing all products due to pagination.
Is it possible with ordercloud?
The short answer is there's no shortcut way to do this. Typically in these scenarios it works the other way - you have a pre-defined list of possible values and restrict what goes in via a dropdown list in the UI, or an enum in the integration layer, or something along those lines. For your scenario, you would need to resort to fetching all products (page by page) and keeping track of those unique values. Ideally that one be a one-time thing and going forward I'd suggest validating/restricting the input, although I don't know your exact requirements.
I'm building a filter page, with facets etc, which works as it should.
Now the our customer has a request to, basically "Be able to decide which sorting the items comes out in".
Each product is decorated with a Product Display Order, and is in a Product Line.
We got these example Product Display Orders:
1. Featured Item
2. Core Item
3. Spare Part
4. Utility
And these Product Lines:
1. Hammers
2. Saw
3. Wood
and the sorting is like this:
Sorting should firstly be based on Product Display Orders, secondly by product lines, thirdly Alphabetically.
So all products which is a Featured Item is listed first, and all these Featured Items is then sorted by their product line, and if some product are in the same Featured Item and Product Line, then its alphabetically.
The challenge is: I can't just get the sorting of Product Display order items and product lines as a number on the product, i only got a name/id.
We've thought of Boosting based on if the product are in the different categories, but it seems a bit messy.
OR
See if it possible to have some logic in the Sorting.
Sort by productDisplayOrder:
1. featured, 2. core Item ...
Then by ProductLines:
1. Hammers, 2. Saw ...
Then by Name DESC.
Which way is the best way to have this sorting, is it possible to give this logic to elastic, if it is a match and then sort it. Or are we needed to twist the boosts of product?
Hopefully this makes sense for you.
Thanks in advance! :)
Option 1). Quickest/Best performing solution would be to create new/separate integer fields for productDisplayOrder and ProductLine and then use those in your sort criteria as described (after reindexing and validating the the data is indexed as expected).
Option 2) If you want more nuance than described (eg higher scoring matches can 'break through' the ordering ceiling described) then you can explore using a Function Score Query to implement a custom scoring strategy that takes productDisplayOrder and ProductLine into consideration in generating an overall match score.
Option 3). If you can't change the mapping and reindexing your data, you can use Script-Based Sorting to generate sorting values from the currently indexed productDisplayOrder/ProductLine text using a script (eg Groovy). Keep in mind that query performance will be worse than the first two options.
I am running a query on a product. I need a field that will look at the user defined field which contains another product and check that stock level. Any help would be great.
What is the main objective?
Are you trying to check on that item because that item is the material/component? or act like a substitution?
Using UDF is quite not feasible as you have to get the link to the Item Master Data, and I have not figured out yet how to do that.
But if you are using it as substitution, why don't you use Alternative Item in Inventory > Item Management > Alternative Items? It will show on Sales Quotation for you to display it to customer. Or during Sales Order, you can get it displayed for alternative should your main item is shortage.
If you are using those item as a component, I suggest you use Bill of Material. During Production Order you will be able to see those component's availability in qty, and also you can have more than one, unlike UDF.
Hope this helps.
I think the key part you're missing here is the naming convention which SAP adpots for user defined fields.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but it seems that you're capable of querying these fields from a SQL point of view.
UDFs by defuault, will have their column name prefixed with "U_".
For example, the UDF 'AnotherProduct' will be referred to in SQL as 'U_AnotherProduct'.
Hope this helps, if not, please explain your problem in some more detail.
Please I would like to know ho to separate customers in category, since we have two type of customers, the first group should only appear in crm->customers only and vice versa to avoid having a huge list of customers when searching.
My first attempt is to add a tag to different customers to separate them, for example the crm customers have the tag name Mass mailing is it correct to achieve this with tags ?? and my second question how to set default search keyword for example if I click on sales -> customers how to set the default value of search box to for example crmOnly tag thanks.
you can use "domain" where ever you want to have a such a separation.
Let's say I have a scenario where I have a Service that is responsible for retrieving the price of a single product given the ID and another Service that gives me the current stock position of it.
It's okay when I'm looking only at one product, but what about a list page where I have 60 products? What should I do in this case? Call the service product by product to retrieve it's current price and stock position?
I think this would be extremely slow and cost a lot of resources. But what could I do to make it look good and at the same time have performance?
Currently we have these information in the database in a column next to the product. These price and stock columns are updated by a sql service that updates it when is necessary so when I need to grab the value for a lot of products at the same time I just need to select two columns more. It's really fast, but right now we have some more systems in need of this information and I would like to transform all these stuff in a service.
Thanks a lot!
Well, you could always have multiple service methods:
the one you already have, to retrieve a single product, and the price for a single product
create a new service method which would take a list of product ID's, and return a list of product objects - or a new DTO (data-transfer object) that holds product and price
This way, you could keep your current users happy, and also do something to make batch requests work more efficiently.
Can your service method take an array of IDs? And return an array of values? That way if you want one record your array only has 1 item, if you want more, you just populate the array with multiple values?