I've had a listing in drafts for some time, but when I finally went to publish it today I got the message that Etsy couldn't publish it because of the error 'About this listing is incomplete.' However, it is complete as all the other listings I publish ever are.
I will note that when I made the draft, I very likely used an old listing using the old form, and copied it over and made changes. I will also note that on this form/listing I don't see a place/box to add the old 'about myself/shop' detail - that it is vintage, and what years it was made.
Must I really waste my time starting over again, using the new form to create the listing, because the changeover was incomplete without accounting for the fact that there were items in draft created by the old form that hadn't been published before June 25th? Or will the tech staff fix this? I have a few hundred items in draft, and this might really cause me to go list on a different marketkplace if I have to bother to relist everything again.
Listings do need updating sometimes particularly the date when it was made as it might have expired. This is in Core Details. Usually the listing form will highlight in a red border the bit that's missing so just click where the message is and it should take you there.
There is no red border showing what's missing. I know what you are referring to, since that has happened at other points, and then I fix it. This was a draft listing that had been in drafts for awhile, but perhaps only a few months, so it couldn't have 'expired.'
There's a little red asterisk telling me "Core details" are missing. But the only category/ box available for 'core details' is "Physical Item," which is filled in. The old form used to ask 'who made it' and 'when was it made' but those questions, and their drop-down box responses, are no-where to be found in this listing form.
@QualityCollection: Using a browser at least, you need to click on <Change> in the Core Details section to open a popup window which has all of the drop downs you are looking for.
Okay I FINALLY got it to work. At first when I clicked on the CHANGE option for the core details it wouldn't scroll down but then I finally got it to scroll down and the options for when it was made appeared as well as production partner, etc. Hopefully it keeps working.