README.md

Sitecore Page Recommender

This repository is the companion code to go along side my series of blog posts, that look at my experiences setting up a page recommendation service for Sitecore.

This is not by any means production ready code. I have pulled the various sections of code from a larger project, so it may need some minor bug fixes. It should however give a clear example of the code required to utilise the Cortex Engine to train and call a Machine Learning model.

I found the Alistair Deneys repo Cortex Processing Demo very useful and took alot of inspiration from that.

How to Deploy

Deploy the xConnect model to the xConnect server

• Copy the JSON file (PageCollectionModel, 1.0.json) to the \Add_Data\Models folder on the xConnect server.
• Restart the xConnect server.

Deploy the xConnect model to the Cortex Processing Engine

• Copy the DLL file (DeanOBrien.XConnect.ProcessingEngine) from the output folder of the that project to the Processing Engine folder.

Deploy the Processing Engine extensions to the Processing Engine

• Copy the App_Data folder from the Processing Engine folder to the Processing Engine.
• Restart Processing Engine

Deploy the Page Recommender Feature to Sitecore Instance

• Copy the DLL file (DeanOBrien.Feature.PageRecommender) from the output folder of that project to the Bin directory of sitecore instance
• Set up page events
• Set up view to trigger page events
• Add scheduled task to call GeneratePageRecommendationsTask periodically