Inventory Items

An Inventory Item represents the physical good available to be shipped to a customer. It holds essential information about the physical good, including its SKU and whether its inventory is tracked. There is a 1:1 relationship between a product variant and an inventory item. Each product variant includes the ID of its related inventory item. You can use the inventory item ID to query the Inventory Level resource to retrieve inventory information. Use the Inventory Item resource together with the Inventory Level and Location resources to manage a store’s inventory across multiple locations.

The Inventory Items pipeline can be used to request and retrieve details of the inventory items from the shopify platform. Read more about this here

Configuring the Credentials

Select the account credentials which has access to relevant Shopify data from the dropdown menu & Click Next

Credentials not listed in dropdown ?: Click on + Add New for adding new credentials

Dimensions: Select the dimensions you would like to fetch from the Shopify platform. You can click on View Schema anytime to see the schema of the table being created. Each of the selected dimensions will create one or more columns in the database table in the destination warehouse.

Data Pipelines Details

Data Pipeline: Select Inventory Items from the dropdown

Setting Parameters

Parameter	Description	Values
Insert Mode	*Optional* Specifies the manner in which data will get updated in the data warehouse : UPSERT will insert only new records or records with changes and APPEND will insert all fetched data at the end. Recommended to use "Upsert" option unless there is a specific requirement.	{Upsert, Append} *Default Value:* UPSERT

Parameter

Description

Values

Insert Mode

Optional

Specifies the manner in which data will get updated in the data warehouse : UPSERT will insert only new records or records with changes and APPEND will insert all fetched data at the end. Recommended to use "Upsert" option unless there is a specific requirement.

{Upsert, Append}

Default Value: UPSERT

Datapipeline Scheduling

Scheduling specifies the frequency with which data will get updated in the data warehouse. You can choose between Manual Run, Normal Scheduling or Advance Scheduling.

Manual Run: If scheduling is not required, you can use the toggle to run the pipeline manually.
Normal Scheduling: Use the dropdown to select an interval-based hourly, monthly, weekly, or daily frequency.
Advance Scheduling: Set schedules fine-grained at the level of Months, Days, Hours, and Minutes.

Detailed explanation on scheduling of pipelines can be found here

Dataset & Name

Dataset Name: Key in the Dataset Name(also serves as the table name in your data warehouse).Keep in mind, that the name should be unique across the account and the data source. Special characters (except underscore _) and blank spaces are not allowed. It is best to follow a consistent naming scheme for future search to locate the tables.
Dataset Description: Enter a short description (optional) describing the dataset being fetched by this particular pipeline.
Notifications: Choose the events for which you’d like to be notified: whether "ERROR ONLY" or "ERROR AND SUCCESS".

Once you have finished click on Finish to save it. Read more about naming and saving your pipelines including the option to save them as templates here

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