Overview

The Requirements page in Akeneo Activation serves two main objectives:

1. Generate Requirements -- Download a file listing all marketplace requirements per channel and product family, so you can prepare your PIM catalog before connecting to a new retailer or marketplace.
2. Recent updates -- Monitor changes to channel requirements so you can act quickly and keep your syndication feeds accurate and complete.

To access the Requirements page, go to the Requirements tab in the left navigation panel of the Akeneo Activation app.

Generate Requirements tab

The Generate Requirements tab lets you select one or more channels and product families, then download a requirements file. The file lists all requirements for each channel and family, including the status (Required, Conditional, Optional) and attribute types.

The Generate Requirements tab in Akeneo Activation, showing channel and family selection fields and a Download Requirements button.

To generate a requirements file:

1. In Akeneo Activation, go to the Requirements tab in the left navigation panel.
2. Select Generate Requirements.
3. Select one or more channels from the channel dropdown.
4. For each selected channel, select the product families you want to include.
5. Click Download Requirements to generate and download the file.

Generate Audit File

After selecting channels and families, you can also click Generate Audit File to produce a detailed audit report of your current requirements coverage. The file is generated asynchronously -- Akeneo Activation notifies you in the interface when it is ready to download.

If a previous audit file is still generating or available, you will be prompted to confirm before starting a new generation. You can cancel an in-progress generation at any time.

Recent updates tab -- Channel Requirement Change Dashboard

The Recent updates tab in Akeneo Activation is the Channel Requirement Change Dashboard. It displays all requirement changes received from the retailers and marketplaces you are connected to, updated daily.

By reviewing this dashboard regularly, you can stay proactive and ensure your syndication feeds remain accurate and unblocked.

The Channel Requirement Change Dashboard in the Recent updates tab of Akeneo Activation, showing the requirements changes table with columns for Criticality, Channel, Family, Date, Attribute, and Change type.

The dashboard only shows changes for:

• The channels you are connected to.
• The product families you have created catalogs for.

Requirement changes table

The requirement changes table provides the following columns to help you analyze and act on changes:

• Criticality -- Whether a change is potentially Blocking or Non-blocking. Blocking changes risk preventing your products from exporting successfully.
• Channel -- The activation channel the requirement change came from.
• Family -- The product family the requirement change belongs to.
• Date -- The date Akeneo Activation received the change.
• Attribute -- The label or code of the attribute affected by the change.

• Change type -- The type of change received from the retailer or marketplace. Change types include:

  • Required attribute added
  • Optional attribute added
  • Attribute removed
  • Attribute label changed
  • Attribute type changed
  • Requiredness changed (now required / now optional)
  • Possible values changed
  • Measurement family changed
  • Family added
  • Family deleted

  Where applicable, the table shows the before and after values -- for example, the previous and new required status for an attribute, or the attributes added or removed from a family.

To load older entries beyond the initial list, click Load older requirement updates at the bottom of the table.

The requirements changes table in Akeneo Activation, with rows showing criticality badges (Blocking / Non-blocking), channel name, family, date, attribute, and change type.

Blocking changes

Not all requirement changes have the same level of impact. Some changes can block your syndication feeds -- for example, a new required attribute that you have not yet mapped. The dashboard highlights these with a Blocking badge in the Criticality column.

The following change types are classified as potentially blocking:

• Required attribute added
• Requiredness changed (now required)
• Attribute type changed
• Measurement family changed
• Possible values changed

Non-blocking changes are flagged with a Non-blocking badge and do not immediately risk your export.

Filtering options

Use the filters at the top of the requirement changes table to narrow the list:

• Criticality -- Filter by Blocking or show all changes (default: All).
• Channel -- Multi-select filter for the channels you are connected to.
• Family -- Multi-select filter for the families you have created catalogs for. This filter is scoped to the channels you have selected.
• Date -- Filter by when Akeneo Activation received the change:
  • All (default)
  • Today
  • Yesterday
  • This week
  • Last week
  • This month
  • Last month
• Change type -- Multi-select filter for the type of change.

The total count of changes matching your current filter is displayed in the top right section of the filter area.

The filter bar in the Channel Requirement Change Dashboard showing Criticality, Channel, Family, Date, and Change type filter controls, and the total result count.

Impacted catalogs -- direct access to catalog mapping

For each requirement change, you can view the catalogs affected by the change and navigate directly to the catalog mapping in your PIM to make corrections.

To act on a blocking change:

1. In the Channel Requirement Change Dashboard, click the Impacted catalogs button at the end of the row for the change you want to address.
2. In the Impacted Catalogs modal, review the catalogs affected by the change.
3. Click Open PIM mapping to go directly to the catalog mapping screen in your PIM, where you can update the mapping for the affected attribute.
4. To instead review the products affected, click View products to open the channel's product list in Akeneo Activation.
5. After making your mapping changes in the PIM, click Save to confirm the update and prepare your catalog for the next export.

The Impacted Catalogs modal in Akeneo Activation, showing the list of catalogs affected by a requirement change and the Open PIM mapping and View products action buttons.

The catalog mapping screen in the PIM, where you can search for the affected attribute and update its mapping to meet the updated channel requirement.

Stay informed with channel notifications

You can subscribe to email notifications for blocking requirement changes by following a channel in Akeneo Activation. When a blocking change is detected on a channel you follow, Akeneo Activation sends you a daily email with a link directly to the Channel Requirement Change Dashboard.

See Channel Notifications for setup steps and notification settings.