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description: Use variations in Einstein Recipes to modify the recommendations that Personalization presents so that your customers see a wider array of items. For example, you can configure a variation to force a recipe to show at most two items from the same category. So if a customer has an affinity for the "hats" category, Personalization recommends the two most relevant hats and a variety of other items from different categories.
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# Variations in Einstein Recipes

Use variations in Einstein Recipes to modify the recommendations that Personalization presents so that your customers see a wider array of items. For example, you can configure a variation to force a recipe to show at most two items from the same category. So if a customer has an affinity for the "hats" category, Personalization recommends the two most relevant hats and a variety of other items from different categories.

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          <th scope="col" class="slds-cell-wrap" style="text-align:left;vertical-align:top;" id="d16540e38">Variation </th>
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            <p style="margin-bottom:0;">Dimensional</p>
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            <p style="margin-bottom:0;">Sets a limit on the number of items with the same primary tags or item types
              that Personalization presents in recommendations. This variation is only
              available for products, articles, and blog posts.</p>
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            <p> Item Limit—Select the maximum number of items to return.</p>
            <p style="margin-bottom:0;">Item Type—Select an item type to limit.</p>
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            <p style="margin-bottom:0;">Randomly varies the recommendations for each customer. All other recipe
              rules still apply, and boosted recommendations appear first.</p>
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            <p style="margin-bottom:0;"> Shuffle randomization for users every—Select the amount of time to
              use in changing the randomization of recommendations.</p>
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