In August, we announced that returned
Productstatuses would
include any validation issues. Unfortunately, the way validation issues used the severity field differed from data quality issues, which led to confusion.
To clarify which validation issues are serious and which are just warnings, we will use the same mapping for validation issues as we do for data quality issues. In addition, we have published an accompanying guide,
API Issue Severity and Diagnostics Issue Prioritization, which discusses how to compare the
issue prioritization used in the
Diagnostics section of the Merchant Center to the issue severity provided in the responses from the
Productstatuses and
Accountstatuses services.
As always, if you have any questions about these changes or any other questions or feedback about the Content API for Shopping, please let us know on the
forum!
- Stevie Strickland, Content API for Shopping Team
