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To update the product, mention the following in the postman and then click Send.

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Query Parameters

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Parameter	Parameter Type	Data Type	Accepted Values	Description
companyId	Required	String	GUID	GUID associated with your company account. Unique to each account
vocabularyId	Required	String	GUID	Each account using the API has a vocabulary associated with their account that allows for customer defined aliases on attributes. This is the GUID to your company's customer vocabulay file
verbose	Optional	Booleen	true/false	Defaults to false. provides more verbose output in the response. Does have a major performance cost so is best used only during testing/prototype/troubleshooting
whatIf	Optional	Booleen	true/false	When set to "true" the importer will run through all of its logic and generate the response output but will not commit any data. Meant for testing
shouldIncludeMissingVocabularyAttributes	Optional	Boolean	true/false	Will determine if attributes not included in your company vocabulary will be returned in search results. Defaults to setting in customer vocabulary, else defaults to false. If set to true, attributes not in vocabulary will return with its GUID.

Specify the required values for params companyId and vocabularyId.

Headers

Authorization: Specify required Auth Token in the header.

Request Parameters

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Parameter	Parameter Type	Data Type	Accepted Values	Description
ProductsToImport	Required	Array		Contains an a array of Products
ImportMode	Required	enum	CreateOrUpdate, Create, Update, ExportOnly	CreateOrUpdate: create product if does not exist or updates existing product. Create: only creates, error if product already exists. Update: only updates existing products, fails if product does not exist. ExportOnly: applies only to export payloads that were pulled using the parameters useLens and flattenLensedProduct set to true. Views flattened attributes that include only one value for any attribute. Can't import products using this value.
ProductIdentifierPropertyOverride	Optional	enum	See Product Identifier Property Table	Used in an import with multiple products. For that single product, this changes the identifier property used as the API key. Sets what type of value you would like to use as the ProductIdentifierValue
ProductIdentifierValue	Required	String		The unique identifier of the product that you are creating or updating.
TaxonomyNodes	Optional	Array of GUIDs	GUIDs	Used to set the taxonomy/category for a product.
CatalogItems	Optional	Array	Party, TargetMarket value pairs	Used for GDSN publications only to request catalog registration for your product to a specific recipient
Party	Optional, Required for CatalogItems	String	GUID	Recipient GUID (For Catalogue items this is the Supplier GDSN Party)
TargetMarket	Optional, Required for CatalogItems	enum	Three digit code that aligns with Target Markets as defined within your company settings. Can be retrieved aby API call.	Determines which country/region you are requesting your catalog be registered.
PackageType	Optional	enum	"Load" - Transporter Load "MixedModule" - Mixed Module "Pallet" - Pallet "Display" - Display Shipper"Pack" - Pack or Inner Pack"Case" - Case "BaseUnit" - Base Unit	Used mainly for GDSN when managing product hierarchy
ImmediateParentDetails	Optional	Array	Contains ProductIdentifier, Quantity pairs	Used for managing product hierarchy to set the parent product and define the quantity contained. The parent product must exist before using this in product import
ProductIdentifier	Optional, required with ImmediateParentDetails	String	GTIN of parent product	The identifier of the parent product that contains the current product. For GDSN, must use GTIN. Parent must exist before using.
Quantity	Optional, required with ImmediateParentDetails	Integer	>0	Sets the number of current products contained in the parent product
RecipientsToLink	Optional	Array of strings	GUID or as mapped in customer vocabulary	Links the product to assoicated recipient default requirement set(s). May have one or more RecipientsToLink.
WorkflowId	Optional	String	GUID or as mapped in customer vocabulary	Imports or updates and adds it to the Workflow step
RecipientsRequirementSets	Optional	Array	Array of recipient requirement sets	Recipient with Array of requirement sets
Values	Optional	Array		Contains all attribute values to be imported or updated.
MultiValues	Optional	Array		Holds all attributes of type MultiValue
AssetValues	Optional	Array	Array of asset attributes. "Name", "ValuesByLocale", "Url", "SourceUrl", "Format"	The array of asset attributes. Contains assets' attributes and URLs.
Name	Optional, Required for AssetValues	String		Asset attribute name.
ValuesByLocale	Optional, Required for AssetValues	Object	Contains attribute's locales e.g. "en-US": {}	Object for locale values.
Name	Part of ValuesByLocale	String		Asset name as it should appear in the UI.
URL	Part of ValuesByLocale	String		URL of the asset in the supplier's asset library.
SourceUrl	Optional for ValuesByLocale	String		URL from which the asset was originally obtained (external to Syndigo). The attribute prevents from getting duplicated asset images (that are from the same source). If SourceUrl exists before the import, it will match and prevent duplicate.
Format	Optional for ValuesByLocale	String	jpeg, png, jpg, gif, mp4, mov, pdf	Holds a file extenstion of an asset.
SourceParty	Optional for ValuesByLocale	String	e.g. “Marketplace”	Party from which the value was sources if not the current party.
Recipient	Optional for ValuesByLocale	String		Alias or GUID of the recipient to which the value applies if it is recipient specific.
Delete	Required for AssetValues	Boolean	true/false	Set to true to delete an existing value.
IsExplicitNullValue	Required for AssetValues	Boolean	true/false	Indicates if value is intended to be published as empty.
ContainerValues	Optional	Array		Holds all attributes of type ContainerValue
ComplexValues	Optional	Array		Holds all attributes of type ComplexValue
NutritionalInformationModule	Optional	Module		Contains the nutrition panel(s) information
ProductIdentifierProperty	Required	enum		Determines the unique identifier attribute to be used as your product identifier, ProductIdentifierValue. Note that this must be unique or the API will not be able to determine which record to update.
LifeCycle	Optional	String	Contains multiple fields:CreatedDate{Value, Delete}DiscontinueDateDeleteDate	Used to manage the product life cycle. CreatedDate is system generated. DiscontinueDate and DeleteDate can be set by user. See example for details
ErrorMode	Optional	enum	Ignore/Fail	Ignore will ignore any error encountered and continue the operation. Fail will prevent any information from the payload from being committed. If you have one product out of 50 in an import with an error, no products will be imported or updated. All will fail.

Request


{
    "ProductImportData": {
        "ProductsToImport": [
            {
                "ImportMode": "CreateOrUpdate", 
                "ProductIdentifierValue": "00053883224346",
                "PackageType": "BaseUnit",
                "Values": [
                    {
                        "Name": "Short Description",
                        "ValuesByLocale": {
                            "": "19 Gallon Storage Container"
                        }
                    }
                ]
            }
        ],
        "ProductIdentifierProperty": "GTIN"
    },
    "ErrorMode": "Fail"
}

Response 200 OK


{
    "VerboseResponse": false,
    "OverallResult": "Success",
    "Errors": [],
    "ResultsByActionType": {
        "ProductImportData": [
            {
                "Result": "Success",
                "IdentifierValue": "00053883224346",
                "MatchedId": "6a96a21c-0aa0-492f-bb95-c648bbd2108c",
                "Errors": []
            }
        ]
    }
}

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