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Appendix
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B2C -Overview
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B2B - Overview
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      • Item Size/Weight
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      Marketing
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    MCW
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Appendix
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Validate Catalog Data

Table of Contents
  • Helpful Background
  • Overview
  • Validation Options
    • Basic Validation
    • Additional Validation
    • Autocorrect Settings
    • Template Validation
    • Run the Validating Catalog Data Report

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Helpful Background #

This manual is written for an audience who may or may not be familiar with the Avetti Commerce software. You will be guided step by step on how to operate the software even if you are not comfortable with computers and how software tools are used. Understanding the Avetti Commerce Store Administration pages is very helpful knowledge to have prior to reading this manual.

Overview #

This feature is useful to validate the product data is complete and correct before publishing the products to the shop online.

During the validation process, the system will give the information or error messages about the validation criteria that they select, the administrator will be able to access the product/category or template from this feature and correct the data as required.

The store administrator has access to this feature by going to Catalog | Validate Catalog Data on the menu in the administration pages.

Validation Options #

Before publishing the preview instance store to the store live (shop), we should always validate it to avoid issues in the live store. Even if you do not want to publish the products live yet, you should validate the store as a control.

There are four types of validations that the system provides.

  • Basic Validation: Helps find out the product details missing from the products created in that store.
  • Additional Validation: Checks for issues regarding the number of characters in the description, keywords, and symbol usage.
  • Autocorrect Settings: Helps correct text fields with issues in the products.
  • Template Validation: Checks all the templates in this start to find hard-coded information.

When you are done creating your products, please go following these steps to validate their data.

Basic Validation #

Expand the Basic Validation section, here a few options will be displayed to provide the product details missing from all the product basic information, such as page titles, item descriptions, item SEO URL, and more.

Many of the options are self-explanatory, but please check the following take for more details about each of the options.

CheckBoxDescription
Product Meta Descriptions and Meta KeywordsValidates the product Meta Descriptions and Meta Keywords and shows the report of the products missing that information.
Product Page TitlesValidates the product Page Titles of all the products and shows the report of the products missing that information.
Product Description1 (Similarly for 2,3,4,5)Validates the product Description1, Description 2, Description 3, Description 4, and Description 5. If any of the products are missing the descriptions, the report will show those products.
Product TitleValidate the product Title of all products in the store. If the title is missing for any of the products, it will appear on the report.
Category Meta Descriptions and Meta KeywordsValidate the category meta descriptions and Meta Keywords to find if they are missing from the products. If the store is multilanguage, the report will show if this information is missing for other languages as well.
Product Short DescriptionValidate the Item Short Description, the report will show which products are missing this information.
Product SEO URLValidates which products have the Item SEO URL field empty.
Product Price is ZeroValidates if the Item Price is zero for any of the products in the store.
Category Page TitlesValidates which categories are missing the Category Page Titles.
Category SEO URLValidates which categories are missing the Category SEO URL.
Validate Products Modified After (date, time)This option is to validate items modified after a determinate date, the date displays the last time there was a basic validation made.

Additional Validation #

The second field group is additional validation which contains more advanced validation options. It checks the issues regarding the number of characters in the description, keywords and symbol usages.

CheckboxDescription
Check Products for short text less than 5 characters in title, short desc, descriptions, keywords and meta descriptionThis option is to check Products for the short text of fewer than 5 characters in the title, short desc, descriptions, keywords, and meta description.
Check for Products with Meta Keywords without commas followed by a spaceThis option is to check for items with meta keywords without commas followed by a space.
Check Product for MS Word Bullet Points in Descriptions or Meta Descriptions This option is to check the Product for MS Word Bullet Points in Descriptions or Meta Descriptions
Check Product for # symbol in Descriptions and Meta DescriptionsThis option is to check items for the # symbol in descriptions and meta descriptions.
Is there a record in the inventory for this item?This option is to validate if exists a record in the inventory for this item.
Check for Categories with Meta Keywords without commas followed by a spaceThis option is to check for categories with meta keywords without commas followed by a space.
Check Categories for short text of less than 5 characters in common name, description, keywords, and meta descriptionThis option check Categories for the short text of fewer than 5 characters in common name, description, keywords, and meta description.
Check Categories for MS Word Bullet Points in Description or Meta Description
This option is to check categories for MS Word Bullet Points in the description or meta description.
Check Categories for # symbol in Description and Meta Description
This option is to check categories for the # symbol in the Description and Meta Description.
Check for MS Word HTML in DescriptionsThis option is to Check for MS Word HTML in Descriptions.
Check for ?, TM, MC in item titles, descriptions, meta descriptions, and keywords: This option is to check for ?, TM, MC in item titles, descriptions, meta descriptions, and keywords.
Check for the same item title in all languagesThis option is to check for the same item title in all languages.
Check for categories where the common names are the same in all languages
This option is to check for categories where the common names are the same in all languages.
Check for Categories missing from categories_ml
This option is to check for Products missing from items_ml
Check for Products missing from items_ml
This option is to check for Products missing from items_ml
Check Products Descriptions for < and >
This option is to check Products Descriptions for < and >
Check Category Descriptions, Meta Description and Keywords for &lt; and &gt;
This option is to check category descriptions for < and > (escape html characters)
Check for the word ‘test’ in any Product Description, Meta Description, Meta Keywords, Page Title, Short Description
This option is to check for the word ‘test’ in any Product Description, Meta Description, Meta Keywords, Page Title, Short Description.
Check for the word ‘test’ in any Category Description, Name or Common nameCheck for the word ‘test’ in any Category Description, Name or Common name.

Autocorrect Settings #

The third section controls auto-correct settings which correct the text in the fields.

CheckboxDescription
Correct All Product Descriptions: , and to comma and spaceThis option is to correct All Product Descriptions: &# 44; and &# 32; to comma and space.
Correct All Product Descriptions and Meta DescriptionsMS Bullet Points to unordered list html tags: This option is to correct All Product Descriptions and Meta Descriptions: MS Bullet Points to unordered list html tags.
Clean all MS Word HTML tags from item descriptions
This option is to clean all MS Word HTML tags from item descriptions.
Clean Product Descriptions with &lt; and &gt; and Change to < >
This option is to clean item descriptions with < and > and Change to < >.
Clean Category Descriptions with &lt; and &gt; and Change to < >
This option is to clean Category Descriptions with < and > (escape html characters) and Change to < >.
Correct TM to the trademark symbol and MC to the French trademark symbol in item titles, descriptions, meta descriptions and keywords
This option is to correct TM to the trademark symbol and MC to the French trademark symbol in item titles, descriptions, meta descriptions and keywords.

Template Validation #

The fourth section controls the template validation which checks for hardcoded texts in the templates.

Run the Validating Catalog Data Report #

1. Click Catalog, located in the menu.

2. Click Validate Catalog Data.

3. Check the check-boxes according to the product information to validate (Refer to tables 1,2,3 and 4).

4. Click Validate Now and wait for a couple of minutes.

The report will be displayed under the Template Validation section, showing the details of what needs to be corrected before publishing the products.

5. Click Export Report to export the report.

A spreadsheet must be downloaded containing the report results.

6. Click on the Show report button to see the report of validation.

Use this button when the report is not displayed yet and the Validation in progress message is gone.

7. After correcting the errors, validate the site again. The products and store will be able to be published once all the errors are fixed.

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Updated on January 24, 2023
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Table of Contents
  • Helpful Background
  • Overview
  • Validation Options
    • Basic Validation
    • Additional Validation
    • Autocorrect Settings
    • Template Validation
    • Run the Validating Catalog Data Report

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