Fuse Sheet Mandatory items

[KataBumble]

Hey there community!

I am bumbling through the FUSE sheet and the one burning question I have is how does a user entering data know what columns are "Mandatory" for their product? There are literally zillions of attributes some that apply and a plethora of those that do not. I have learned the hard way with regards to fields that are dependent on one another. For example, if a language field is selected you must have the preceding info completed or vice versa but I am in the dark as which to fields are a MUST. 

Thanks in advance to anyone who comments!

[alien · Accepted solution]

Hello @KataBumble and welcome to the customer community. Thanks for reaching out.

You can look at the general documentation Documentation - FUSE Quick Sheets and the advanced guide 201 Advanced: Item Management Mass Upload with the Load Sheet (FUSE) Workshop to understand how it works but my best advice is to add a couple of items manually or look for items you already have that you can use as templates and export them. That way you should only have the basic attributes populated and know which columns you have to populate.

Thank you and have a great day.

[KataBumble]

Thanks! I have attended that workshop and it is "a lot" to absorb in one setting. It would be great if there could be an actual hands on workshop in Pre-Prod that is stages some dummy items and linked to dummy trade partners where users can essentially get real-time experience.

Break it up into 2 sessions for maximum retainment

[Val_P]

Hello @KataBumble and thank you for the follow-up and feedback.

I have forwarded your great idea to my colleagues from our Education team to keep it in mind for next webinars. 

In the meantime, you can also use our Fuse training thread to find the most common upload errors and how to rectify any of those. When starting out, as Alin suggested above, we recommend using already published items (preferably items already accepted by your retailers) and exporting those as templates for the new ones as this will point you and your colleagues in the right direction when it comes to which columns and attributes to populate.

Please also note by default some attributes are hidden in FUSE, so it may be necessary to unhide all columns in case you cannot find a specific attribute you are looking for.

We can also recommend using the Item Management Participant dictionary (Current IM Participant Dictionary) in case you are looking for an attribute but unsure of its exact name.

Please let us know if there is anything else we may assist with and we would be delighted to. Thank you and have a wonderful day!