# Invisible product on item library after updating or creating via api

**URL:** <https://developer.squareup.com/forums/t/invisible-product-on-item-library-after-updating-or-creating-via-api/19012>\
**Category:** Questions\
**Tags:** catalog-api\
**Created:** [October 3, 2024, 8:29am UTC](https://developer.squareup.com/forums/t/invisible-product-on-item-library-after-updating-or-creating-via-api/19012 "2024-10-03T08:29:29Z")\
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**Author:** ![liam\_pixeldev](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ea924/32.png) [@liam\_pixeldev](https://developer.squareup.com/forums/u/liam_pixeldev)\
**Post date:** [October 3, 2024, 8:29am UTC](https://developer.squareup.com/forums/t/invisible-product-on-item-library-after-updating-or-creating-via-api/19012/1 "2024-10-03T08:29:29Z")

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When creating / updating catalog items via the API the item **sometimes** becomes invisible in the webapp item library. No, i do not have any active filters in the search.

Searching for the item using any data metric doesnt work. The only way I can view the item in the library is directly by copying the id and pasting in the url.

This is one of the products in question, is there something in here preventing visibility? :

```auto
{
  "object": {
    "type": "ITEM",
    "id": "ZESFMWOVCE24DWNYPVFFESA6",
    "updated_at": "2024-10-03T04:09:15.055Z",
    "created_at": "2024-10-03T00:58:37.38Z",
    "version": 1727928555055,
    "is_deleted": false,
    "present_at_all_locations": true,
    "item_data": {
      "name": "Simple product",
      "description": "Simple 1",
      "is_taxable": true,
      "visibility": "PRIVATE",
      "variations": [
        {
          "type": "ITEM_VARIATION",
          "id": "MWAL2K3NXLA62VIKXMMXIBM5",
          "updated_at": "2024-10-03T04:09:15.055Z",
          "created_at": "2024-10-03T00:58:37.38Z",
          "version": 1727928555055,
          "is_deleted": false,
          "present_at_all_locations": true,
          "item_variation_data": {
            "item_id": "ZESFMWOVCE24DWNYPVFFESA6",
            "name": "Regular",
            "sku": "simple",
            "ordinal": 1,
            "pricing_type": "FIXED_PRICING",
            "price_money": {
              "amount": 9900,
              "currency": "AUD"
            },
            "track_inventory": true,
            "sellable": true,
            "stockable": true
          }
        }
      ],
      "product_type": "REGULAR",
      "skip_modifier_screen": false,
      "ecom_visibility": "UNINDEXED",
      "pickup_fulfillment_preferences_id": "fprefs_1284onmev52wrcg2et6jwf2g9",
      "delivery_fulfillment_preferences_id": "fprefs_1284onmetr8ldaofn0vs24xt5",
      "description_html": "<p>Simple 1</p>",
      "description_plaintext": "Simple 1",
      "shipping_fulfillment_preferences_id": "fprefs_1284onmevp9tma4vq7cmvrh2h",
      "dine_in_fulfillment_preferences_id": "fprefs_1284onmeukp6fplx30kiyg4rt",
      "is_archived": false
    }
  }
}

```

FYI, cant attach images to this post, http error 422

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**Post date:** [October 3, 2024, 8:29am UTC](https://developer.squareup.com/forums/t/invisible-product-on-item-library-after-updating-or-creating-via-api/19012/2 "2024-10-03T08:29:42Z")

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👋 I’m Square Dev AI, here to help answer your question!  
Based on the information you’ve provided, the following documentation will help answer your question:

> **[Catalog API](https://developer.squareup.com/docs/catalog-api/what-it-does)**
>
> Learn more about creating and managing a product catalog with the Square Catalog API.

> **[Monitor Sold-out Item Variations or Modifiers](https://developer.squareup.com/docs/inventory-api/monitor-sold-out-status-on-item-variation)**
>
> Learn how to use the Catalog API to set or inspect a sold-out item or to have it enabled to be set as sold out when its inventory count reaches zero.

> **Additional Documentation**
>
> [Design a Catalog](https://developer.squareup.com/docs/catalog-api/design-a-catalog)  
> [Archive Catalog Items and Manage Archived Items](https://developer.squareup.com/docs/catalog-api/archive-catalog-items)  
> [Call the SearchCatalogItems Endpoint](https://developer.squareup.com/docs/catalog-api/search-catalog-items)

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**Author:** ![Bryan-Square](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/square/forums/user_avatar/developer.squareup.com/bryan-square/32/38_2.png) [@Bryan-Square](https://developer.squareup.com/forums/u/Bryan-Square)\
**Post date:** [October 3, 2024, 9:38pm UTC](https://developer.squareup.com/forums/t/invisible-product-on-item-library-after-updating-or-creating-via-api/19012/3 "2024-10-03T21:38:00Z")

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I’ve reached out to the team about this. 🙂

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**Author:** ![Bryan-Square](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/square/forums/user_avatar/developer.squareup.com/bryan-square/32/38_2.png) [@Bryan-Square](https://developer.squareup.com/forums/u/Bryan-Square)\
**Post date:** [October 3, 2024, 10:00pm UTC](https://developer.squareup.com/forums/t/invisible-product-on-item-library-after-updating-or-creating-via-api/19012/4 "2024-10-03T22:00:40Z")

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All items are showing correctly now. Thanks for bringing this to our attention. 🙂