Hi, Assuming that you are using the Universal Recommender Engine, you should have a look at the "Queries" section here: https://github.com/PredictionIO/template-scala-parallel-universal-recommendation#queries
Try this request instead, where the "fields" property is used to filter by category { "user": "674296", "num": 10, "fields": [ { "name": "categories", "values": ["CAT1", "CAT2"], "bias": -1 } ] } /magnus ________________________________ From: Hossein Bahrami <h.bahr...@live.com> Sent: Tuesday, December 13, 2016 10:55:00 AM To: user@predictionio.incubator.apache.org Subject: Customizing Recommender engine Dear all, I'm new to Predictionio, currently I'm using it and I managed to import (rate, buy) events and getting pretty good results querying it. But now I want to limit the results for items in specific categories. I've created events for items' properties (categories) as well . I am posting this query to engine but it seems doesn't care about the categories and returns same result every time. { "user": "674296", "num": 10, "categories" : ["CAT2", "CAT1"] } I've imported bellow events client.create_event(event="rate", entity_type="user", entity_id=int(row['userid']), target_entity_type="item", target_entity_id=int(row['itemid']), properties= { "rating" : float(row['rating']) }); client.create_event( event="buy", entity_type="user", entity_id=int(row['userid']), target_entity_type="item", target_entity_id=int(row['itemid']), ); client.create_event( event="$set", entity_type="item", entity_id=itemid, properties= { "categories": itemcats } ); Could someone give me a solution or hint to how customize this recommender engine to take the categories into account. Thanks in advance Hossein