What a Completeness Marker does

A Completeness Marker is an indicator automatically calculated by THRON that measures, as a percentage, how many of the attributes you defined as mandatory are already filled out on a product — for a specific Family and a specific Locale.

The marker is both a visual indicator in the product sheet and an operational tool: you can use it to filter and group products based on their completion status.

How the calculation works:

• Attributes: the marker verifies that each selected attribute is filled out
• Families: the rule applies to all products belonging to the selected Families
• Locale: for localized attributes, each Locale is evaluated independently; for non-localized attributes, it is sufficient that they are populated once

Create a Completeness Marker

1. Go to Platform Settings → Products → Markers
2. Click New completeness marker
3. Enter a unique Code (e.g. ready-ecommerce, translated-en)
4. Select the Families to which it applies (up to 10)
5. Select the Locales on which to measure completeness (up to 10)
6. Click Continue, choose attributes
7. Select the Attributes that must be filled out to reach 100% (up to 50)
8. Click Create marker to confirm

💡 Recommended Configuration

Immediately create a base-product marker that includes the fundamental attributes shared by all your Families and the main Locale: SKU, Product Name, Description and main image (Media Gallery). This is the minimum starting point to monitor catalog quality.

View completeness in the product sheet

The marker value is visible in the left panel of the product sheet, in the Completeness section. The section appears only if the product belongs to a Family and a Locale provided by the marker.

• By default only the first marker is shown; click View all markers to expand them
• Expand a single marker to see the detail for each configured Locale and the overall value considering all applied Locales
• Hover over the marker title to preview the attributes still missing
• Use the "Show only missing attributes" filter in the product sheet to view exclusively the fields to fill out — both for the current Locale and for those configured in the marker — and remove it at any time

Edit and maintenance

Go to Platform Settings → Products → Markers and click on the edit icon next to the marker to update. The detail page is divided into two sections:

• Basic parameters: Code, Families and Locale. At least 1 Locale, 1 Family and 1 Attribute must be present in order to save.
• Selected attributes: list of attributes included in the calculation.

Click Save changes in the header to confirm. If the configuration contains non-existent Families or attributes, the system shows an error panel and blocks saving.

To delete a marker, scroll to the bottom of the edit page and click Delete marker. A confirmation modal will appear; after confirmation you will be redirected to the list without the deleted marker.

⚠️ Note: currently it is not possible to delete a marker directly from the list; deletion happens only from the detail page.

System limits

Upon reaching the limit of 50 markers, the system shows a warning panel and the New button is disabled.

Special cases: non-applicable marker

In some cases the marker is not applicable on a product, even if Family and Locale match. Instead of the percentage, an error message is shown in the product sheet.

This happens when one or more attributes included in the marker do not belong to the product's Family. The main causes are:

• The attribute is not in the Family: a warning about the attribute in question is shown on the marker configuration page. It is still possible to save the marker, but it will remain non-applicable for those products.
• The attribute is at a lower hierarchical level: the marker calculation does not inherit values from lower Variation levels (e.g. Variant), so if the attribute is defined only at the Variant level, the marker cannot calculate it.

⚠️ Always check Families before adding attributes to the marker. An attribute missing in even just one of the selected Families makes the marker not applicable for all products of that Family.

Best practice

One marker per goal. Create distinct markers by purpose — ready-print, ready-ecommerce, translated-en, approved-marketing — instead of a single marker with everything inside. The team immediately understands what is missing and why.

Update markers when the structure evolves. If you add new Families or new Locales, include them in existing markers so you don't lose visibility on new products.

Link Locales to localized attributes. In order for the marker to correctly measure multilingual completeness, make sure that attributes that vary by language (e.g. name, description) have the Localizable Value flag active.