Displaying customer specific products can be achieved by providing us the customer identifiers and using the curent customer as a filter.

Normally, filtering is done by adding an attribute to a filtertemplate. The drawback: you'll see the customer identifier in the selection. To prevent that, we introduced request parameters: the effect on product filtering is the same but it brings performance improvements (over a regular filter) and solves the selection problem.

Steps to take:

• Add an attribute containing the customer identifiers that have the product in their range.
• Configure the attribute as request parameter.
• Use the parameter in your platform to show products for the current customer.

Add an attribute

Add an attribute to the product feed, containing the customer identifiers that have the product in their range.

<item>
  <id>TSH0123</id>
  <name>Shirt Colin</name>
  <!-- omitted for brevity -->
  <attributes>
    <attribute>
      <name>allow_customer</name>
      <value>10005</value>
    </attribute>
    <attribute>
      <name>allow_customer</name>
      <value>10006</value>
    </attribute>
    <attribute>
      <name>allow_customer</name>
      <value>10018</value>
    </attribute>
  </attributes>
</item>

This will be visible in the items module as:

Configure as request parameter

Follow the guide to Configure the attribute as request parameter.

Use the parameter

In the examples we take this as a starting point:

• Attribute name: allow_customer
• Current customer idenfier: 10005

Tweakwise JS

Use the parameters option to filter on the current customer for search and merchandising:

window["twn-starter-config"].parameters = 'allow_customer=10005';
window["twn-starter-config"].navigation.parameters = 'allow_customer=10005';

Read more about Use request parameters in Tweakwise JS.

API

Use the tn_parameters option to filter on the current customer for navigation and navigation-search endpoints:

/navigation-search/{instancekey}/?tn_parameters=allow_customer%3D10005
/navigation-search/{instancekey}/?tn_parameters=allow_customer%3D10005

Read more about Use request parameters in Tweakwise API.