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Scheduled Recommendation Input

A scheduled recommendation.
Root XML tag
<scheduledRecommendation>
JSON example for creating a new scheduled recommendation
1{
2   "rank" : "2",
3   "recommendationDefinitionId" : "0RDD00000004CEhOAM"}
JSON example for updating an existing scheduled recommendation
1{   "rank" : "2"}
Properties
Name Type Description Required or Optional Available Version
channel String A way to tie recommendations together, for example, to display recommendations in specific places in the UI or to show recommendations based on time of day or geographic locations. Values are:
  • CustomChannel1Custom recommendation channel. Not used by default. Work with your community manager to define custom channels. For example, community managers can use Community Builder to determine where recommendations appear.
  • CustomChannel2—Custom recommendation channel. Not used by default. Work with your community manager to define custom channels.
  • CustomChannel3—Custom recommendation channel. Not used by default. Work with your community manager to define custom channels.
  • CustomChannel4—Custom recommendation channel. Not used by default. Work with your community manager to define custom channels.
  • CustomChannel5—Custom recommendation channel. Not used by default. Work with your community manager to define custom channels.
  • DefaultChannel—Default recommendation channel. Recommendations appear by default on the Home and Question Detail pages of Customer Service and Partner Central communities. They also appear in the feed in communities in the Salesforce mobile web and anywhere community managers add recommendations using Community Builder.
Use these channel values; you can’t rename or create other channels.
Optional for creating a scheduled recommendation

If not specified, defaults to DefaultChannel.

Don’t use when updating a scheduled recommendation

36.0
enabled Boolean Indicates whether scheduling is enabled. If true, the recommendation is enabled and appears in communities. If false, recommendations in feeds in the Salesforce mobile web aren’t removed, but no new recommendations appear. In Customer Service and Partner Central communities, disabled recommendations no longer appear. Optional 34.0
rank Integer Relative rank of the scheduled recommendation indicated by ascending whole numbers starting with 1.

Setting the rank is comparable to an insertion into an ordered list. The scheduled recommendation is inserted into the position specified by the rank. The rank of all the scheduled recommendations after it is pushed down. See Ranking scheduled recommendations example.

If the specified rank is larger than the size of the list, the scheduled recommendation is put at the end of the list. The rank of the scheduled recommendation is the size of the list, instead of the one specified.

If a rank is not specified, the scheduled recommendation is put at the end of the list.

Optional 33.0
recommendation​AudienceId String ID of the audience for this scheduled recommendation.

When updating a scheduled recommendation, specify ALL to remove the association between a recommendation audience and a scheduled recommendation.

Optional 35.0
recommendation​DefinitionId String ID of the recommendation definition that this scheduled recommendation schedules. Required for creating a scheduled recommendation.

You can’t specify a recommendation​DefinitionId when updating an existing scheduled recommendation.

33.0
Ranking scheduled recommendations example

If you have these scheduled recommendations:

Scheduled Recommendations Rank
ScheduledRecommendationA 1
ScheduledRecommendationB 2
ScheduledRecommendationC 3

And you include this information in the Scheduled Recommendation Input:

Scheduled Recommendation Rank
ScheduledRecommendationD 2

The result is:

Scheduled Recommendation Rank
ScheduledRecommendationA 1
ScheduledRecommendationD 2
ScheduledRecommendationB 3
ScheduledRecommendationC 4