Using Behaviors with Liquid

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Description

You can reference ODP Behaviors to pull in information including:

  • Products the users have abandoned in their cart
  • The last brand users browsed on your site
  • The last product users purchased
  • Custom data you store in ODP (product reviews, blog posts, etc.)
  • Referencing behaviors is point-and-click

You can use Liquid to achieve advanced use cases, too:

  • Show products that pair well with purchased products, by showing pairings stored in a custom object 
  • Show products of the same brand as the last brand a user browsed
 
Steps

How do you reference a Behavior using Liquid? 

  1. Create the behavior in ODP (click the 3 dots at the top nav > Behaviors).
  2. In ZED, drag in a Dynamic Grid. In the Details tab of the grid, select the object you want data from via the Content Feed dropdown.
  3. Select the Behavior from the Source dropdown. For this example, we search for "Cart Abandonment"
  4. Click ‘Convert to Liquid’ .

 

5. Copy the Liquid generated in ‘Liquid Array Reference’  

6. Paste into text element, Variables section, setup block, or a separate text editor

7. Add assignment syntax and opening/closing brackets ( {% assign x = ...%} )

8.Modify any fields ( product_id ) and clauses of the behavior lookup ( .step1, .top, .limit(4) )

9. Apply it to the rest of the logic you are creating.

 

Liquid Code Breakdown - What exactly can you modify in a behavioral lookup?

Let’s break down the Liquid code used in the previous slide:

behavior.abandon_cart_behavior(range_start: 'auto', range_end: now(0), required: true, filters: array('z_content_shield_filter')).step1.list.product(product_id).top.limit(4)

  • ‘behavior.’ → indicates we are doing a behavioral lookup
  • ‘.abandon_cart_behavior’ → the Behavior key/the name of the Behavior as used by Liquid
  • ‘range_start ...range_end…’ → the time frame; ‘auto’ indicates ‘since the user qualified for the campaign’
  • ‘required: true’ → true/false indicates if the user is required to fulfill the behavior to qualify for the campaign
  • ‘filters: ...filter’)’ → this requires the returned data to fulfill the account level Content Shield
  • ‘step1’ → indicates which step in the behavior we want to return data from
  • ‘list’ → indicates a list of data to be returned; omitting ‘list’ will result in just 1 record being returned
  • ‘product’ → the object we want data from; this can be ‘event’, ‘order’ or a custom object
  • ‘product_id’ → the field we want data from; this can be any field in the referenced object and its child objects
  • ‘top’ → this indicates the results’ sorting order; can also be ‘bottom’, ‘oldest’, ‘newest’
  • ‘limit(4)’ → limits how many records to be returned; without a limit specified, 10 records are returned

 

As with object lookups, child objects can be referenced through behavioral lookups;

  • step1.list.event(product.image_url, product.name, product.price).top.limit(4)
  • step1.list.product(image_url, name, price, category.path, category.name_0).top.limit(4)
  • step1.list.event(product.name, product.price, product.category.path, product.category.name_0).top.limit(4)
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