Recommendation is filtering criteria while creating activity

Description description

Environment
Adobe Target

Issue
Receive a warning message when applying a specific criteria to an activity, even if everything is configured correctly:
The pages in the activity are passing the parameters required by the criteria (entity.id and entity.categoryId) in the mbox call.

However, the error message below still appears when applying the required criteria to the activity:

An entity.ategoryID is required for this criteria to work properly. Use it anyway?

Cause
Sometimes the activity builder doesn’t correctly “pick up” that the page is tagged with entity.id and entity.categoryId and still displays the warning message.

Resolution resolution

Solution
You can turn OFF the filtering at account level from recommendation settings as below:

Activity content delivery is not restricted in any manner with this configuration.

This filtration is only used to create the activity, but would not affect the algorithm in any way.

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