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Current version: 1.1.0

Our Find Similar widget finds visually similar products and presents the results in a pop up layout. There are 2 components in the widget:

Product details of the query image
Visually similar product results generated by us. The list of products can be presented in a carousel or scroll box format. The default display is carousel.

findsimilar-example-gif

Setup

You can directly place our script into your page header to access this widget:

<script type="text/javascript" src="//cdn.visenze.com/visearch/dist/js/components/Recommendation-1.1.0.bundle.js"></script>

Quick start

This quick start guide demonstrates how to load and initialize our ViSenze You May Also Like widget. This guide uses basic options to initialize the widget. However, you can also customize advanced options if you want to do so.

Setup the Widget

2 simple steps to integrate our You May Also Like widget:

Place the placeholder element
Initialize the widgets in javascript

Place the element

You should place the "Find Similar" button somewhere in your HTML body and assign an ID to it. In our example, we name the element ID as vs-findsimilar which will be used in the initialization of the widget in javascript. You can find this source code in src/findsimilar/index.html:

<body>
    <div class="container">
        ...

          <div class="vs-product-details">
              <div class="title" style="display: inline-block;">Product name</div>
              <div id="vs-findsimilar" style="display: inline-block;"></div>
              <div class="vs-price">$99.00</div>
          </div>

        ...
    </div>
</body>

Initialize the widget

To get real data working in the example, you need to initialize the following code snippet. The customizable parameter object contains three sub-objects:

vsSettings: parameters to customize the search options
displaySettings: parameters for presentation
findSimilarOpts: parameters of the product

You can find the following code snippet in src/js/findsimilar.js:

var vsSettings = {
  appKey: 'APP_KEY',
  fl: ["im_url", "price", "title", "product_url", 'brand', 'discount_price'],
  limit: 15,
  detection: "all"
};

var displaySettings = {
  showQueryProduct: false,
  hasScrollBox: false,
  modalSize: 80,
  cardsToShow: 4,
  cardsToScroll: 4
}

var findSimilarOpts = {
  imName: "IM_NAME",
  productDetails: {
    productUrl: 'product_url',
    heading: 'title',
    label: 'brand',
    price: "price",
    discountPrice: "discount_price"
  },
  addToCartHoverIcon: true,
  addToCartStaticIcon: false
}

var options = {
  vsSettings: vsSettings,
  displaySettings: displaySettings,
  findSimilarOpts: findSimilarOpts
};

$(document).ready(function() {
    FindSimilar(document.getElementById("vs-findsimilar"), options);
});

Please update the following parameters in the code snippet according to your own app configurations:

Parameters	Explanation
`APP_KEY`	This is the credential to call our API. You should be able to find these in the Integration/Client-side Integration section on dashboard. Detailed explanation on key pairs can be found here.
`SCHEMA_NAME`	The corresponding schema field values to be linked. The value of the schema should be the one that is being configured in your schema setting. You can find the full list in the Your Images -> Schema section on dashboard. Detailed explanation on schema configuration can be found here.

Run the example

The example project is managed by gulp. If you don't have gulp, please follow the getting started guide to install it. The following command will start a server and run the example at http://localhost:8080:

// Remember to configure before starting or else there will be error
gulp start

If the parameters are configured correctly, you should be able to see the widget working like this:

find-similar-example

Advanced options

Customize product card layout

You might want to customize the layout of the product card to fit the design of your site. productDetails is an object that maps the corresponding card details to search results. The image below illustrates a visual representation of the product card and its details. You can pass the field schema value to the placeholder in order for the correct value to be rendered. Note that the widget will not render the product detail field unless it is set.

productCard

Example: Configure productDetails as shown below in order to display the product title first and product brand below that:

  productDetails: {
    label: "title",
    heading: "brand",
    description: "",
    price: "price",
    discountPrice: "discount_price"
  }

Customize product card style

Of special interest is the ability to customize the style of the widget so it matches the look and feel of your website. The widget is made of up multiple JavaScript elements which can be modified by adding CSS styling to your site.

product-card-customize

You can find the sample css files to customize the look for the example in the directory src/styles. Here is sample css that customizes the product card layout as shown above:

/*Product details*/
.vs-product-details {
  color: #333333;
  font-size: 14px;
  padding-top: 5px;
  padding-bottom: 5px;
  font-family: 'Roboto-Regular', sans-serif;
}
.vs-product-details .vs-ellipsis {
  -webkit-line-clamp: 2;
  -webkit-box-orient: vertical;
  text-overflow: ellipsis;
  overflow: hidden;
}
.vs-product-details .vs-elli-one {
  -webkit-line-clamp: 1;
}
.vs-product-details .vs-product-label {
  height: 22px;
  font-family: 'Roboto-Bold', sans-serif;
}
.vs-product-details .vs-product-heading {
  position: relative;
  line-height: 1.4em;
  height: 40px;
}
.vs-product-details .vs-product-description {
  font-size: 12px;
  height: 35px;
  font-family: 'Roboto-Light', sans-serif;
  color: #777777;
}
.vs-product-details .vs-product-price {
  display: inline-block;
  margin-top: 5px;
  margin-bottom: 5px;
  margin-right: 10px;
}
.vs-product-details .vs-strikethrough {
  text-decoration: line-through;
  color: #999999;
  font-weight: 400;
}
.vs-product-details .vs-product-discount-price {
  display: inline-block;
  color: #d03535;
  font-weight: 400;
}
.vs-product-details .vs-product-more_details {
  color: white;
  text-align: center;
  background-color: black;
  line-height: 30px;
}
.vs-product-details .vs-product-more_details:hover {
  color: white;
  text-decoration: none !important;
  background-color: #676767;
}
.vs-product-details .vs-cart-static {
  height: 20px;
  width: 20px;
  margin-left: 15%;
  cursor: pointer;
  opacity: 0.7;
  float: right;
}
.vs-product-details .vs-cart-static:hover {
  opacity: 1;
}
.vs-product-details .vs-cart-icon {
  height: 100%;
  width: 100%;
}

Reference

vsSettings

Key	Type	Description
appKey	string	(compulsory) app key
fl	array	(compulsory) list of schema values returned from the API. The list needs to match the schema set in the API.
fq	object	(optional) list of pre-defined filters to filter your search results. e.g. `fq: ['country:singapore', 'brand:nike']`. Detailed explanation of the filters can be found here.
limit	integer	(optional) the number of search results returned. Default set to 15.

findSimilarOpts

Key	Type	Description
imName	string	(compulsory) the index id of the product to recommend on. This should be the same im_name used for datafeed indexing.
productDetails	object	(compulsory) result in widget mapped to the product card display. See below for product card layout. Each of the card elements will be matched to the response result. Widget will not render the card element if the key is not given.
productContainer	html element	(optional) area for additional customization on top of the default layout provided. Recommended to have simple additional buttons.
onProductContainerClicked	function	(optional) method to be executed when the productContainer is clicked.
fsTitle	string	(optional) title of the widget to be displayed. Default is set as "Find Similar".
hasHoverCartIcon	boolean	(optional) show the "Add to cart" icon when image is hovered. Default set to true. See an example.
hasStaticCartIcon	boolean	(optional) show the "Add to cart" icon permanently below the image. Default set to false. See an example.
onAddToCartClicked	function	(optional) method to be executed when "Add to cart" icon is clicked.
cartText	string	(optional) text to represent "Add to cart". Default set to "Add to cart". It will always show to the right of the icon.
afterCartText	string	(optional) text to represent "Add to cart" after clicked. Default set to "Added". It will always show to the right of the icon.
findSimilarText	string	(optional) add a text description on the right of the "Find Similar" icon. Default is empty.

displaySettings

Key	Type	Description
hasQueryProduct	boolean	(optional) show the details of the query product. Default set to false.
queryProductDetails	object / html components	(optional) the display of the query product. Has the option to use the product card layout or a customized html component.
hasScrollBox	boolean	(optional) results to show in a scroll box layout if true, else results in carousel format. Default to false.
modalSize	integer	(optional) size percentage of the popup modal. Default set to 60%.
cardsToShow	integer	(optional) number of results in a single strip. Default set to 3.
cardsToScroll	integer	(optional) number of results in a single scroll. Default set to 3.
hasInfiniteScroll	boolean	(optional) enable infinite scroll. Default set to false.
isDraggable	boolean	(optional) enable mouse drag within browser. Default set to false.
hasDots	boolean	(optional) show the dots at the bottom as page indicator. Default set to true.
nextArrowSrc	string	(optional) url to image source for the next arrow.
prevArrowSrc	string	(optional) url to image source for the previous arrow page indicator. Default set to true.
hasAutoplay	boolean	(optional) enable auto scrolling of results. Default set to false.
autoplaySpeed	integer	(optional) delay time in terms of milliseconds between each scroll. Default set to 3000ms.
currencySymbol	string	(optional) currency symbol before prices and discount_prices. Default set to '$'.
errorMessage	string	(optional) message to be displayed when an error occurs. Default set to "System busy. Please try again later".