we are just getting started with recombee and are loading in our catalog. We have different classes of items, like books, videos and games. Should we be creating a separate catalog for each or one catalog with all the items and a type field to indicate the type of item? We will want to provide recommendations both within a type (e.g. recommended books) as well as across types (e.g. recommended books, videos and games). Thanks! I couldn’t quite find the answer from the documentation.
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Since you want to recommend also across types, all the items should be in one Recombee database.
You should add a string item property called type and set it for each item (to book/video/game ...).
Then you can filter upon the property using ReQL by setting filter parameter of a recommendation request. For example with filter: 'type' == "book", only books will be returned as recommended items.
If you don't set the filter, you will get recommended items of any type.
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