Partial fix CreativeWork Schema Bug Report

[Babak]

Affected version

i dont know i just check xenforo.com resource

example resource: https://xenforo.com/community/resources/tl-schedule-content-for-xf-2-x.5910/

Schema Markup Testing Tool | Google Search Central | Google for Developers

Use the Rich Result Test to see what Google results can be generated for your pages and the schema markup validator for generic schema validation.

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cancel	The review does not have a reviewed item with a name specified.
cancel	CreativeWork is not a known valid target type for the itemReviewed property.

 

[John rus]

i replace in template xfrm_resource_view

"@type": "CreativeWork",

on

"@type": "Book",
"name": "{$resource.title|escape('json')}",

it not good variant, but it remove errors

 

[Chris D]

We have made some changes here but, unfortunately, the "CreativeWork is not a known valid target type" error will still continue in the Structured Data testing tool.

The assertion in the tool pertains to the changes discussed here:

Making Review Rich Results more helpful

Official news on crawling and indexing sites for the Google index

webmasters.googleblog.com

It seems as though Google are being particularly stringent on what types of property are considered relevant targets for reviews.

While the Google tool will continue to error and, it seems, no longer show the rich review snippets, the actual markup we're using is valid and compliant with the documentation at https://schema.org.

The structured data markup that we do include may well still be used by other search engines. Indeed Bing still seems to display rich review snippets on their search results and other systems may still be able to scrape the information manually if needed.

So, ultimately, we're leaving the error but it can be safely ignored.

If you do so happen to host resources in your Resource Manager that fit one of the allowed types, you could always edit the xfrm_resource_view template to add the relevant type (Book does seem to work but we just cannot justify that for the general use of the software).