In a 'glass half-full" moment, I see that as of 010426 (the date I first discovered the latest change, & archived the page as reproduced below; in a vain & forlorn hope that the observed inaccuracies might possibly be ‘anchors’ for a page still under construction, I waited 2 weeks to see if anything changed before posting this reply), the Editorial Team has restored the BTG table to that SHC page:
All mention of Book Loader has been suppressed, and it’s certainly helpful that one can yet again access the Browse Tree Guides - but the glass is only ½-full, in me own estimation, due to the fact that several of the other (in fact, most of them, dadgummit) embedded links offered up on that page are behind the internal use-only M.A.P. (“Midway Authentication Portal”) gateway:
1 - In the “Product Spreadsheet” section, we all can see that the “Add Products” embedded URL currently points here:
The correct ‘simplified’ URL for that resource is apparently not the following, as might be presumed @ the first blush (again, link ‘broken,’ as are all following URLs in this post, when applicable):
because on the seller-side of things, it simply redirects to the new (and rather execrable, IMHO) Add Products Dashboard; it appears to me that Amazon’s actual intent is to link to the “Check Upload Status” Dashboard found here:
2 - In the “Video Tutorial” section, the link to the Seller University Module “Match or create product listings and variations in bulk” is currently this:
2 - In the “Listing Loader” section, once again, we can again see that the “Check Upload Status” URL points behind the M.A.P.-shielded gateway, as is true of the afore-mentioned “Product Spreadsheet” ¶ (paragraph).
3 - In the “Price and Quantity” section not only is that same mistake repeated, but we can also all see that there are two other missteps there, to wit -
a) The currently-embedded link to the “Update price and quantity” ‘card’ is this:
The correct ‘simplified’ URL for that resource - which is supposed to invoke the ‘slide-in’ menu-dialog box that’s part & parcel of the execrably-redesigned Add Products workflow, so that a user can advance through the steps intended to provide the latest-and-greatest Attribute-Harmonized flat-file template for this or that Catalog Category, targeted specifically to this or that of Amazon’s Global Marketplaces - is this:
b) As is true of the “Product Spreadsheet” section previously pointed out, the “Add Products” embedded URL in that section currently points to the same ‘shielded’ URL reproduced above.
4 - In the “Style guides and Browse Tree Guides” section, the first two links - to the SHC’s “List products that do not have a Product ID (UPC, EAN, JAN or ISBN)” @ https: //sellercentral.amazon.com/help/hub/reference/200426310 in the Note, and to “Categories and products that require approval” @ https: //sellercentral.amazon.com/help/hub/reference/200333160 embedded in the restored Table’s last Column Header, “Approval required,” are both correct (& even presented in best-practice ‘simplified’ form - no need to strip a superfluous “G” prefix from the SHC ID #); all of the links (save four of them) in the “Style Guides” & “Browse Tree Guides (BTG)” columns are also correctly accessible from the seller-side of things.
Those 4 exceptions can begin to be found in the second link in the Consumer Electronics row, “Consumer Electronics Store Style Guide,” which is currently supplied w/ a M.A.P.-shielded link to the newest iteration of Amazon’s “Rainier” database (more on this to come in the concluding ¶ of this post):
B) The second exception is notable in the Style Guides column, in the badly-bollixed “Clothing & Accessories BTG” row, which has been inexplicably mixed up with Software & Video Games - the embedded link of which label points here:
C) The third exception also occurs in that same row, & is documented in item ‘5 - i)’ below.
D) The fourth exception repeats the same mistake as the third, in the second of the Style Guides offered up in the “Tools & Home Improvement” row - “Reconditioned Tools & Hardware” currently points here:
5 - As if this litany of errors weren’t already long enough, we can also find that EVERY SINGLE LINK in the aforementioned “Approval required” column is also inaccessible; when Amazon restored the table to the SHC page in question, it kept the same labels for each cell that have been there (prior to last year’s temporary disappearance) for the past ten years and more, so all but one of them display as “View requirements”:
a) In the “Automotive (Parts & Accessories)/Automotive (Tyres & Wheels)” row - n.b. the bleedover from alternate contributory attribute sources w/ the cross-pond spelling of “tires” - “View requirements” points here:
The “Rainier” database has been around for a long time - Project Rainier was originally launched more than 20 years ago, in Q3 of 2005, and it’s always had the intent of reducing support infrastructure costs via replacing humans with Amabots - but it this sorry offering is an example of the project making progress, I’ll eat my hat.
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“BISS” is an ‘Amazonese’ acronym for “Business, Industrial, and Scientific Supplies”
The previous example is for a long-extant SHC page that underwent revision(s) @ the hands of AI.
There’s a hoary old saw about a fish rotting from the head down.
The rot IS spreading, as I found when the FMT-CMT’s Ammy_Amazon made a 020526 post (link, NSFE) referring to the SHC’s (“Seller Help Content”) brand-spanking-new policy page “Enhance Listings” @ https: //sellercentral.amazon.com/help/hub/reference/88AQCL62ED7WDGA (link ‘broken’ for display on the Discourse Platform):
There are a total of 3 embedded links currently displayed on the page; two of them point behind the Amazonian-access-only M.A.P. (“Midway Authentication Portal”):
The ‘Improving quality using bulk edits’ (n.b. the syntactic error in that sentence, in the form of a missing space) link in the second “Note” section is currently presented as this:
The second link, to the SHC’s ‘index of links’ page “Program Policies” @ https: //sellercentral.amazon.com/help/hub/reference/521, is correct (albeit it’s not in ‘simplified’ as it includes the near ubiquitously-superfluous leading prefix ‘G’ tacked onto the Seller Help Content ID, which in this case is “521”).
The third embedded link, “…(One ASIN at a time)…,” currently points here:
Stripping out the .dev TLD, the superfluous leading ‘G,’ & the equally-superfluous (and mostly-useless, @ least from the perspective of 3P Sellers) Marketplace Switcher-invoking (everything after the actual SHC ID, ‘201116090’) portions we see that the intended destination is the SHC’s “Edit listing and product information,” for which the ‘simplified’ URL is this: