Have you (or one of your clients) ever wanted to limit the default Personalization Rules in Sitecore 8? If so, you’ve just found the right step-by-step instructions.
Wondering where to start? Considering writing some custom code that intercepts a pipeline? Nope. Guess again! You can actually do it with out-of-the-box features in Sitecore 8.
8 Easy Steps: How to Customize Personalization Rules
Let’s lay out the steps necessary steps to customize the Personalization Rules. In this example, we’ll create a rule to limit by site name for a country.
- Create a new Rules Tag for the Conditions.
/sitecore/system/Settings/Rules/Definitions/Tags
- Next, you’ll need to add a new Element Folder.
/sitecore/system/Settings/Rules/Definitions/Elements
- Inside the Element Folder, add a new Condition.
/sitecore/system/Settings/Rules/Definitions/Elements/Country
- Now assign the Rules Tag (created in step 1) to the new Condition’s Default Tag.
/sitecore/system/Settings/Rules/Definitions/Elements/Country/Tags/Default
- Create a Rules Context Folder.
/sitecore/system/Settings/Rules/Country
- Assign the new Tag that was created to the Default Tag.
/sitecore/system/Settings/Rules/Country/Tags/Default
- Update all Conditional Renderings Tags to use the new Tag, Country, that was created and remove any previous ones.
/sitecore/system/Settings/Rules/Conditional Renderings/Tags/[Default, Device, Social]
8. Finally, test it out. Add a new Condition to a component on a page, and then the Rule Set Editor should reflect the newly created condition.
Note: If you want to limit the user’s choices to a specific set of values, just update the Condition created in step 3 to point to your folder, like so:
where the country name [operatorid,StringOperator,,compares to], [value,Tree,root=/sitecore/Content/MySite/Countries,specific country]
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Now that you know how to limit the default Personalization Rules in Sitecore 8, you’re ready to start customizing them for you or your clients.
