SAP Knowledge Base Article - Public

2986777 - Error occurred while communicating with recommendations engine when trying to enable personalized recommendations

Symptom

Customer sets recommendationsEngineEnabled=true in PERSONALIZED RECOMMENDATIONS configuration.

After applying changes, an error displays.

'Validation Error
You must correct the following error(s) before proceeding:

Error occurred while communicating with recommendations engine. Please try again and if error persists, please contact support.'

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Environment

SAP SuccessFactors Learning

Reproducing the Issue

  1. System Administration > Configuration > System Configuration > PERSONALIZED RECOMMENDATIONS
  2. Set recommendationsEngineEnabled=true > Apply Changes
  3. 'Error occurred while communicating with recommendations engine. Please try again and if error persists, please contact support.' displays.

Cause

Personalized Recommendations is currently available through the Early Adopter program.

Resolution

For Customer who are in the Early Adopter program but still gets this error. They should email sap_sf_learning_recommender_eac_registration@sap.com to solve the problem

For Customer who are not in the Early Adopter program. This is not error but expected system behavior.

If Customer wants to know about Early Adopter, they shall send mail to earlyadoption@sap.com

Keywords

KBA , LOD-SF-LMS-LRR , Recommendations , Problem

Product

SAP SuccessFactors Learning all versions