Activate widgets

The following are key concepts within Optimizely Recommendations:

• Tracking types, define visitor actions that can be tracked, see Tracking and recommendations
• Widgets, displays recommendations based on tracking type calculations, see Personalization.

When a new environment is set up, it has the following Commerce-specific widgets. Note that widgets are only configured for five of the eleven tracking types. See TrackingTypesin the Commerce class library for the full list.

In a new environment, all widgets are inactive. Before you can track and receive recommendations, you must activate them by using the WidgetService within EPiServer.Personalization.Commerce.

Sample code is provided in the SiteInitialization.cs file in the Optimizely Customized Commerce sample site source code. See Quicksilver on GitHub.

var widgetService = context.Locate.Advanced.GetInstance<WidgetService>();
    var response = widgetService.GetWidgets();
    
    foreach (var widget in response.EpiPerPage.Pages.SelectMany(x => x.Widgets))
      {
        widget.Active = true;
        widgetService.UpdateWidget(widget);
      }