Where can I preview my feeds?

[Michael_Soprano]

How to preview my feeds if it has expected structure?

What should I create next - Collections?

[Utkarsh_Balooni]

Hi @Michael_Soprano ,

There are different considerations for ensuring that your feed has the expected structure depending on the method you use to create your feeds:

1. If you are using a CSV file to upload your product data, Target provides a sample CSV format for product feeds. 

2. If you are using Google product feed, you must follow the Google specification exactly for entity feeds and use the attributes defined by Google.

3. If you are using Analytics product classification (which is not recommended by Adobe), you can follow the Analytics components guide.

As soon as you create your feed, you can see the import status of your feeds, once the import is successful you can cross verify using the catalogue section of Target recommendations. For detailed information, see this document - https://experienceleague.adobe.com/en/docs/target/using/recommendations/entities/feeds

Regarding what you should do next, you can create collections if you want to segment you products based on category, features etc. for enabling personalised recommendations. But exact next steps would depend on your specific use case. 

[Michael_Soprano]

My case is:

1. Removed all the old Feeds.

2. Added new feed with entity.custom1 , entity.custom2 attributes

3. Feed uploaded with success

4. When I go through products in Catalog Search I do not see new custom entities... It looks like that Catalog Search is based on old Feeds

What should I do next after uploading new Feed?

[GigiCotruta · Accepted solution]

If you remove the feed, it does not automatically remove all the products. You have to delete all the products from your catalog, then, after all got deleted, upload the new feed. 

You can use this endpoint:

https://mc.adobe.io/{{TENANT_ID}}/target/recs/entities?ids={{ENTITY_ID}}&environment={{ENVIRONMENT_ID}}

Make sure to introduce the ID and/or the environment. If you don´t do it, it will delete all the products from your environment. I guess that it is what you want, so you can introduce only the environment so it will delete all the products. 

It may take some days to delete all of the old products.

[Michael_Soprano]

Thanks. Got this response:

{
"operation": "Delete by client requested."
}

Will wait some time and check if its deleted. For the enterprise type of software its not that good that the duration how much I need to wait is not specified

[GigiCotruta]

Yes, it is the correct response. Now it´s a waiting game haha. 

Let me know how much time it took you. We deleted 9M products and it took us close to 24h

[GigiCotruta]

There is no such option as a Preview. You can charge a sample file, make sure that your structure is ok, then load the rest of it.