Integration Prerequisites

Before you can use the Digital Recommendations - Interact integration, you must make sure that you meet the prerequisites described in this section.

Be sure that the following prerequisites are true:

You are familiar with the use of the Interact API as documented elsewhere in Administrator's Guide and online help.

You are familiar with the Digital Recommendations REST API as described in your Digital Recommendations developer documentation.

You have a basic understanding of HTML, JavaScript™, CSS, and JSON (JavaScript™ Object Notation).

JSON is important because the Digital Recommendations REST API returns the product information you request in as JSON-formatted data.

You are familiar with server-side coding of web pages, because the demonstration application provided with Interact uses JSP (although JSP is not required).

You have a valid Digital Recommendations account and the list of category IDs you plan to have Interact to retrieve product recommendations (the top-selling or most popular products in the category you specify).

You have the Digital Recommendations REST API link (a URL for your Digital Recommendations environment).

See the sample application included with yourInteract installation for an example, or see the sample code in Using the Integration Sample Project for more information.