Verify items

Prerequisites

Knowledge

• Understanding of item collection concepts.
• For product item types with variants, understanding of which record fields map to product-level and variant-level attributes.
• Knowledge of appropriate data types for your attributes (string, number, boolean, array).

Process

• Created an item collection. 

• Ingested data via full update via API or with Imports.

• Reviewed the records and defined the schema. 

Verify items in an item type

Check that the system successfully transformed your records into structured items.

1. Go to Data hub > Items in your Bloomreach workspace. 

2. Click the item type whose items you want to verify. Item types are listed under their collection.

3. Click the item type's items tab, for example Products items.

4. Review the list of items, showing unique item IDs and attribute values.

5. Click the View button next to any item to view its attributes (such as title, price, and color_family).

6. For variant items, check the variants list to confirm the variant attributes.

Items reflect the structured data after your schema mapping. They differ from records, which are raw and less structured before schema mapping. 

Troubleshoot missing item attributes

If you expect an attribute, but it's missing from items:

1. Check the schema configuration to confirm you mapped the field correctly.

2. Verify the field exists in your records.

3. Check the jobs tab to see if schema reprocessing completed successfully.

4. Re-save the schema if needed to trigger a new Items update job.

Troubleshoot missing items

Missing items are often linked to identifier configuration. 

• If a record identifier is used, a corresponding record with that identifier must exist when items are updated. 

• If a record field value is used, the item identifier should be present in that field within one of the records.

Next step

Create destinations and sync data.