How-to guides

• Migrating to the Retail API

  If you used Recommendations AI in beta, migrate it to the generally available Retail API.

• Before you begin

  Set up your project to use the Retail API.

• Importing catalog information

  Learn how to upload catalog items to the Retail API.

• Recording real-time user events

  Record user events used to train models.

• Importing historical user events

  Import user events used to train models.

• Creating serving configurations

  Create a serving configuration for generation recommendations or search results.

• Setting up alerts

  Use Google Cloud's operations suite to monitor data upload health.

• Monitoring and troubleshooting

  View errors and error logs for data import and Retail API requests.

• Creating models

  Create your recommendation model.

• Getting recommendations

  Generate recommendations using your model.

• Using recommendations in emails

  Include recommendations in email messages.

• Querying and pagination

  Create search requests and paginate your results.

• Adjusting result size

  Adjust the size of search results with query expansion and relevance thresholding.

• Filtering and ordering results

  Filter and order search results.

• Boosting results

  Boost or bury search results.

• Attribute configuration

  Learn about attribute configuration settings.

• Serving control rules

  Learn about serving control rules.

• Creating and managing controls

  Create and manage serving controls and site-wide controls.

• Updating inventory

  Update inventory-specific fields for Retail Search.

• Importing completion data

  Import completion data used for auto suggsetion.

• Managing catalog information

  Retrieve, update, and delete catalog items.

• Managing user events

  Import, view, update, and delete user events.

• Managing models

  List, view, and delete models for Recommendations AI.

• Managing controls

  Add, view, edit, and delete controls for Retail Search.

• Managing serving configurations

  Create, view, and delete serving configurations.