Release notes Tweakwise

Period: March/April 2023

Tweakwise App & API

• From now on, it is no longer possible to have a category referencing itself as a category. At feed import, we show a proper error message which will explain this problem if it is set up incorrectly.
• In case you want to download your feed from within Tweakwise App, we do show a progress bar. Especially while downloading a large file, this can be helpful.
• It is now possible to use hidden filters (tn_parameters and tn_parameters_except) in combination with the suggestion API endpoints. This only applies to the category and facet suggestions. How it works: if the filters would result in 0 products to be returned for the category or facet attribute, it will be filtered out.
• We fixed some minor bugs in our App where Cyrillic characters (used in the Russian language) were not fully supported, for example, in the attribute URL name. Configuring a fully working shop became impossible, but this is now solved.
• Personal Merchandising (PM) is applied to product suggestions when the category for which autocomplete activates uses PM. Before, it was hard to know that PM was affecting the results. We've added labels to the product suggestion results in the demo shop to indicate how PM has affected sorting, as we do for lister pages and recommendations.
• On some new modules, our inside chat did not work correctly. This has now been solved.
• We completely replaced the "Extended number recognition" search algorithm with "Exact match".

NEW: Google Analytics 4

We can finally announce that we implemented support for Google Analytics 4. Customers with the Google Analytics module enabled (Universal Analytics) will get access to our GA4-module automatically. 

As GA4 is entirely new from Google's perspective, you must also configure your Google settings in Tweakwise again via a new approach. You must first link your account with Tweakwise and create some reports to do so. For each report (we distinguish between custom reports and ‘pageview’ reports), you can select the property and metrics you want to retrieve from Google and link it to the proper attribute in Tweakwise. Once set up, all your created reports will run daily (or at any other interval) via the Tweakwise tasks module. Retrieved data will be saved per report in the external attributes under the name you gave the report with a ga4-prefix. After that, you are free to use this data anywhere in Tweakwise.

Both versions of our Google modules work simultaneously and won’t conflict with each other. We suggest using GA4 as soon as possible to collect and compare data with your Universal Analytics data before stopping using the old module.

Javascript implementations

• We've added the option in Recommendations JS to use the product tile styling and config from the ‘regular’ JS implementation. Although the recommendations will automatically apply the product tile, it is possible to disable this behavior.
• As we did for Recommendations, we've also added the inheritance of the starter product tile in the Guided Selling JS. By default, the Guided Selling will now use the product tile in its results. It is possible to disable this behavior.
• For Recommendations through Javacript, we added support for showing recommended products in a carrousel, so we don’t break the look and feel on especially smaller devices.

Magento

• We significantly improved our Magento 2 Tweakwise plugin regarding the naming and positioning of recommendations (featured products, cross-sells, and upsells). First, our plugin now uses consistent naming of recommendations according to the default Magento guidelines.
• We added the option to show featured recommendations in the shopping cart. If you enable recommendations for the cart, you have to choose between featured products or cross-sells. Afterward, you can type in the desired feature-id, select the desired template or use a group code. In the case of the group-code option, you also have to provide the number of products you would like to show, which is implemented in the front end as well.
• If you want to show featured recommendations, now there is a setting to enable if you want to show only ‘relevant recommendations within category’.
• In our export plugin, we fixed a bug where attributes with value = 0 were absent in the export feed, resulting in missing data in Tweakwise. Now product data does contain these values.
• All our Magento 2 plugins were expanded with support for PHP 8.2.