Check your design before you save it with the Audit panel

The Audit tab in the Listing Designer studio scans your design in plain English and tells you what might be wrong before you save it: fields it does not recognise, links that could cause problems, and structural issues with the layout. This article explains what each type of result means and how to use it while you work.

What the Audit tab looks for

Open a design in the Listing Designer studio and select the “Audit” tab. It checks your design for three broad categories of problem:

• Missing or unknown merge fields. If your design references a merge field that is not recognised, or a field that is expected but has not been filled in, the audit flags it so you are not left with a placeholder showing on a live listing.
• Risky links. Links in the design that could cause a problem (for example, links that look broken, incomplete, or otherwise risky) are called out so you can review them before they go live.
• Structure issues. Problems with how the design is put together, rather than with its content, such as layout elements that do not resolve cleanly.

How results are grouped

Each result is shown as an error, a warning, or an info note, in plain English rather than technical jargon:

• Errors are the issues most likely to cause a real problem in the finished design.
• Warnings are worth a look but are less certain to cause an issue.
• Info notes are lower-priority observations, useful context rather than a problem to fix.

Read through the list from top to bottom, fix what applies to your design, and ignore anything that genuinely does not apply to how you have built the listing.

Working through the Audit tab

1. Open your design in the Listing Designer studio.
2. Select the “Audit” tab to run the check.
3. Read each error, warning, and info note in the results list.
4. Go back to the design and fix any merge fields, links, or structure issues it points out.
5. Use re-check to run the audit again, or simply keep editing: the panel re-checks live as you make changes, so you can see results update without stopping to run it manually each time.
6. Once you are happy with the results, save the design.

Why check before you save

Catching a missing merge field or a risky link in the Audit tab is far cheaper than finding it after the design has gone out on live listings. Because the checks re-run as you edit, you can treat the Audit tab as a running quality check rather than a one-off gate, tidying up small issues as you build the design instead of leaving them all to a final pass.