Prerequisites for Acoustic Personalization

Ensure that all the prerequisites are completed before you use Acoustic Personalization.

To use Acoustic Personalization, you need the following access privileges:
  • Access to the content (for example, images, audio, video) to be used for personalization. Content can either be pulled from Acoustic Content or accessed from a publicly-hosted URL. Ensure that the API URL that you register in Acoustic Personalization is the same that is used in your channel to create or update the content.

    For more information, see Using CMS with Acoustic Personalization

  • The person responsible for setting up the website for personalization should have edit permissions on the website.
  • You must have a Acoustic Exchange account. If you already have a Acoustic Exchange account, you can use the same account for one or more channels that you want to register in Acoustic Exchange.

    For detailed information about the Acoustic Exchange configuration, see Configuring Acoustic Personalization with Acoustic Exchange

The channel that you want to personalize using Acoustic Personalization must meet the following prerequisites:
  • Ensure that the channel you want to personalize is either a Single-Page Application (SPA), a Multi-Page Application (MPA), or a simple HTML site (Native App).
  • Ensure that the website is configured with a tagging and analytics library (such as Google Analytics or Adobe Analytics) for tagging and collecting user behavior for the supported events, which are used for creating the rules for personalization.

    For more information, see Configuring Google Analytics and Acoustic Exchange or Configuring Adobe Analytics and Acoustic Exchange

  • Ensure that the website has predefined zones and each zone is uniquely identified by a Zone ID.

    For more information, see Zones

  • Ensure that the zones you want to personalize are subscribed to Acoustic Personalization.

    For more information, see Configuring the zones of Angular SPA or Configuring the zones of MPA

  • If the website that is personalized is a dynamic website or a Single-Page Application (SPA), deploy the Online Engine from the Artifactory.

    For more information, see Installing the Personalization Library

  • Ensure that the website has a rendering engine to render (display) the personalized content returned by Acoustic Personalization.