• Introduction
• Version: 21.2.0
• New Features
  • Custom Groups (Open Beta)
  • Query API Suppression (Open Beta)
• Maintenance & Bug Fixes (General Availability)

Introduction

These release notes provide an overview of the new features and improvements for the latest Fredhopper version, FAS 21.2.0.

 

Version: 21.2.0

Release Date: 20/05/21

FAS 21.2.0 is the second major release for Fredhopper in 2021. The main highlight of this release is the introduction of Custom Groups, which is an enhancement to the existing group functionality within the Visual Merchandiser.

 

New Features

Custom Groups (Open Beta)

[New] Custom Groups is the newest feature that is available within the Visual Merchandiser. Custom Groups allows the user the ability to create a group consisting of products that they can manually specify. Previously, users would only have the ability to create groups using rules and filters. This increases users' overall efficiency within the Visual Merchandiser as it provides them with the freedom to configure groups as they wish. Merchandisers will also be able to add products to groups by specifying the IDs of products that they would like to include. 

Custom Group functionality includes the ability to:

• Freely create and name groups of products
• Specify the order of products within a group
• Define the order of the group with respect to other products/groups
• Add products into groups by specifying the appropriate product IDs
• Remove products from groups by removing the relevant product IDs
• Specify the number of products shown from different groups

 

Query API Suppression (Open Beta)

[Improvement] Introduced suppression functionality onto Campaigns as well as Product Lister Pages. This allows developers the ability to optimize and limit Fredhopper query server responses, thus improving performance.

 

Maintenance & Bug Fixes (General Availability)

[Improvement] Addressed an issue within the Visual Merchandiser that caused products to be placed in an incorrect position when an item is blocked.

[Improvement] Detailed view within the Visual Merchandiser will now show the color variant.

[Improvement] Blocking a group of items with a facet applied now reflects on the number of search results returned (reduced by the number of blocked items).

[Improvement] Fixed an issue that caused color variants to not change within campaigns when 'Thumbnail image URL' is selected in display fields.

[Improvement] Updated the notifications within the Result Modifications section to be more clear when there is an issue.

[Improvement] Updated the incremental updates process which could cause outages in certain circumstances.