thread Re: What is 'heat'? in Orders, Menu Items, Catalog & Fulfilment

What is 'heat'?

rustyravenng — Sat, 20 Sep 2025 10:12:27 GMT

Hello,

Maybe I'm showing my ignorance, but what does the 'heat' field mean on an item? It's one of the few things I can filter items by, so it must be something useful?

I've searched for info to no avail.

Please educate me. Thanks!

Re: What is 'heat'?

HC_Charlie — Fri, 31 May 2024 21:22:55 GMT

Hello @rustyravenng thanks for your post. I'm not familiar with anything called "heat"...where exactly are you seeing this in your filtering of items? Item Library, online Library? Can you post a screenshot?

Re: What is 'heat'?

rustyravenng — Tue, 18 Jun 2024 21:13:01 GMT

Re: What is 'heat'?

ndixon — Tue, 18 Jun 2024 21:25:39 GMT

Huh I don't have that on my dashboard.

Re: What is 'heat'?

Candlestore — Thu, 20 Jun 2024 15:20:29 GMT

@rustyravenng ;

Thanks for the Image, I think I figured out what "Heat" is.

I think you Created a Custom Attiribute.

I added one called Location and it shows up basically in you Image where 'Heat' is.

I tried this for basically Storage Locations but was unabel to export a Column called Location. I was confused by this at first too. See Image:

To see if this is what 'Heat' is you can follow this link to your Square Dashboard:

https://squareup.com/dashboard/items/custom-attributes

Re: What is 'heat'?

rustyravenng — Thu, 20 Jun 2024 19:15:47 GMT

Oh, now that's funny. I wonder when/who created that custom attribute and what it was for??? LOL

Thanks for helping me figure this out!! Now, my days are less about scratching my head and wondering. Ha!

UPDATE: What's strange now is if I filter by 'Heat', it filters out some items, but the attribute is not actually used in the items left... yet another conundrum about the usage. Hmm