Focused/filtered catalog deployments

[james-jory]

Add support for deploying and/or displaying products from a specific set of categories in the Retail Demo Store UX. This will allow demos to be delivered that are restricted to a type of products that are relevant to the person receiving the demo. For example, if delivering a demo to someone in the personal electronics space, restrict the deployment just to products in the appropriate categories. This could be implemented a number of ways from deployment or just in the UI at run-time (and with a Personalize dynamic filter).

[aeggbeg]

This is a important ticket. Basically I want to create 4 demo's for 4 different industry e.g. Retail, Banking etc. It would be great to have a solution :

1. apply some filter - similar to "don't show products that customer just bought" in Amazon Personalise
2. somehow with a query parameter I would like to say "industry=retail" and it shows the retail products.

I am open to either option as I am now manually figuring out how to update/load dynamodb with new product image/product data. Benefit of option 2 is I can run same instance for multiple industry demo. In both cases we will need to update local customer specific product data/information - to make the demo more compelling to customers industry. Is there a way a short cut / easiest way to load product data to an existing deployment maybe.

Just some thoughts based on my current use cases. Cheers

[patrick-239]

Working on it, hope to create a PR this Friday.
@aeggbeg could you share your datasets for different demos?