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How does "Recommended for you" and "Popular topics" widgets work on Employee Center Pro?

Aditya32
Kilo Contributor

There's "Recommended for you" and "Popular topics" widgets available on Employee Center Pro homepage.

ServiceNow product documentation says "The Recommended for you widget displays catalog items and knowledge articles, enabling you to view information that is most relevant to you.". How is ServiceNow determining what's relevant to the logged in user?

ServiceNow product documentation says "The Popular topics widget lets you quickly view and access the most viewed topics. Employee Center uses an algorithm to determine which topics must appear on the widget.". Does it show the most viewed topics by the logged in user or does it show the most viewed topics by everyone in the company?

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Øyvind Fosse
ServiceNow Employee

Hi Aditya,

I recommend you read this FAQ for a full understanding of the behaviour of these two widgets:

FAQs on Curated Experiences, Search Configurations, and Content Recommendation

the essential parts for your questions is the following:

  1. What is the recommendation logic used with ‘Recommended for you’ widget?

In general, this widget highlights the most viewed knowledge article and most requested catalog items across all employees (for a time period defined in the instance options by the portal administrator)

For customers who have Predictive Intelligence license and have it activated in their instance, this widget will use the similarity framework applied on the Employee’s profile to make the content recommendation.

See the flowchart below:

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  1. What is the recommendation logic used with the ‘Popular topics’ widget?

We define "popular" topics as topics that contain content (catalog or knowledge) that have higher popularity. For a catalog item, popularity is the number of times it was requested and for a knowledge article, it is the number of times it was viewed. The popularity of a topic is the aggregation of the popularity of all the content under a topic.

Popularity is calculated based on a daily scheduled job that looks at the entire history, since the day Employee Center was turned on the instance and across all users in the instance.

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Øyvind Fosse
ServiceNow Employee

Hi Aditya,

I recommend you read this FAQ for a full understanding of the behaviour of these two widgets:

FAQs on Curated Experiences, Search Configurations, and Content Recommendation

the essential parts for your questions is the following:

  1. What is the recommendation logic used with ‘Recommended for you’ widget?

In general, this widget highlights the most viewed knowledge article and most requested catalog items across all employees (for a time period defined in the instance options by the portal administrator)

For customers who have Predictive Intelligence license and have it activated in their instance, this widget will use the similarity framework applied on the Employee’s profile to make the content recommendation.

See the flowchart below:

image

  1. What is the recommendation logic used with the ‘Popular topics’ widget?

We define "popular" topics as topics that contain content (catalog or knowledge) that have higher popularity. For a catalog item, popularity is the number of times it was requested and for a knowledge article, it is the number of times it was viewed. The popularity of a topic is the aggregation of the popularity of all the content under a topic.

Popularity is calculated based on a daily scheduled job that looks at the entire history, since the day Employee Center was turned on the instance and across all users in the instance.

The link to FAQs on Curated Experiences, Search Configurations, and Content Recommendation says it's been archived. Is its content available elsewhere?

hi Aditya, do you have a link to the archived content?   FAQ on curated experiences. search configurations. 

Link doesnt work.

@Øyvind Fosse if HR profile is implemented, then how does the similarity solution come into play? does it not look at the employee profile at all?  do we need to create a similarity solution which is HR profile focused and not user based

 

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