Customizing how products are categorized in the Strands integration

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Make the class implement the IStrandsCatalogCategoryMapper interface:

using System;
using System.Globalization;

using CMS;
using CMS.Core;
using CMS.StrandsRecommender;
using CMS.DocumentEngine;
using CMS.Ecommerce;

// Registers the custom IStrandsCatalogCategoryMapper implementation
[assembly: RegisterImplementation(typeof(IStrandsCatalogCategoryMapper), typeof(CustomStrandsCatalogCategoryMapper))]

public class CustomStrandsCatalogCategoryMapper : IStrandsCatalogCategoryMapper
{
    public string GetItemCategory(TreeNode catalogItem)
    {
        // Body of your Strands catalog categorization customization method
    }
}

Add a custom implementation for the GetItemCategory method, as described in one of the following examples:

1. Using an SKU department ID as the category field in the Strands catalog feed

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   /// <summary>
   /// Retrieves SKUDepartmentID which will be used for categorizing the page in the Strands integration.
   /// </summary>
   /// <param name="catalogItem">Document</param>
   /// <returns>Category field</returns>
   public string GetItemCategory(TreeNode catalogItem)
   {
       SKUInfo skuInfo = SKUInfoProvider.GetSKUInfo(catalogItem.NodeSKUID);
       if (skuInfo != null)
       {
           return skuInfo.SKUDepartmentID.ToString(CultureInfo.InvariantCulture);
       }
       throw new Exception("[CustomStrandsCategoryCatalogMapper.GetItemCategory]: SKUInfo was not found for specified TreeNode.");
   }

2. Using the path to the page as the category field in the Strands catalog feed

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   /// <summary>
   /// Retrieves the path to the page, excluding the page's name. The path will be used for categorizing the page in the Strands integration.
   /// </summary>
   /// <param name="catalogItem">Document</param>
   /// <returns>Category field</returns>
   public string GetItemCategory(TreeNode catalogItem)
   {
       string docName = catalogItem.DocumentName;
       string docNamePath = catalogItem.DocumentNamePath;
   
       return docNamePath.Substring(0, docNamePath.Length - docName.Length);
   }

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