A product that you recently submitted was previously submitted with the same unique ID in the same language for the same country. Each new product that you submit needs a unique ID. We recommend that you use the product's SKU, and re-use that same value each time you submit the product.
Instructions
Step 1: See the affected products
- Sign in to your Merchant Center account.
- Select Products on the navigation menu, then click Diagnostics.
- Click the Item issues tab to view current issues affecting your products.
To download a list (.csv) of all affected products for all issues:
- Click the download button
next to the filter button
, beneath the graph and above the list of issues.
To download a list (.csv) of all affected products for a particular issue:
- Find the issue under the “Issue” column, then click the download button
To view a list of up to 50 products with this particular issue:
- Find the issue under the “Issue” column, then click View examples in the “Affected items” column.
Step 2: Submit unique IDs for each product
- Filter the downloaded report so that you only see products with:
“Issue title” = Reused value ID [id] - Check your product data for those products, and make sure that each product has a unique ID that you’ve never used before.
- If you submitted a large number of products with incorrect IDs by mistake, resubmit all of them with the IDs that they had before.
If your unique IDs can be extracted automatically from your data, you can set up a feed rule to change the ID [id] attribute values in either primary or secondary feeds. The ID rule allows you to bulk update your feed to make sure that each of your products has a unique value for the ID [id] attribute.
Step 3: Resubmit your product data
- After you’ve updated your product data, resubmit it using one of these methods:
- Next, check that you’ve fixed the issue by making sure it’s no longer listed on the Diagnostics page.
Keep in mind: It may take some time for your change to be reflected on the Diagnostics page.