If your organization does not have an internal content management system (CMS) or does not use an accounting application to product data, then you will most likely not have proprietary IDs for your data. If this is the case, then you will need to generate proprietary IDs on your own.
I recommend the following method for the proprietary ID of the product data:
Set the
proprietary_idcolumn to the default/primary ISBN
For example, if your organization publishes primarily (or only) reinforced library binding books, use the reinforced library ISBN as the proprietary ID for each product row in the “products” ingestion template.
I recommend the following method for the proprietary ID of the product format data (NB: if your organization assigns unique ISBNs to all formats then you do not need to populate the proprietary_id column of the “product_formats” ingestion template):
Set the
proprietary_idcolumn to the default/primary ISBN plus a unique identifier for the format
For example, if your organization publishes primarily reinforced library binding books:
Use the reinforced library ISBN plus “PBK” as the proprietary ID for each paperback product format row in the “product_formats” ingestion template;
Use the reinforced library ISBN plus “PDF” as the proprietary ID for each PDF product format row in the “product_formats” ingestion template;
Use the reinforced library ISBN plus “EPB” as the proprietary ID for each ePub product format row in the “product_formats” ingestion template;
Etc…