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An inventory component is the raw material your ad server exposes — ad units, placements, avails, and related inventory detail — before it is packaged for sale. Components come from a connected ad-server inventory source when it syncs; they are discovered rather than authored, and are not directly sellable on their own. In Inventory Components, accept components you want available for product authoring, hide ones you do not want to use, or remap a component when its publisher, property, or placement needs correction. These decisions prepare the inventory you select from when you create a product; they do not alter the source inventory in your ad server. The Merchandising Agent uses accepted components when it composes products at discovery. Review mappings before creating products so the agent starts with the inventory and representation you intend to sell. Read the component glossary entry for the distinction between a component, product, source, and selector. Then follow Create products from ad-server inventory to turn reviewed components into products buyers can discover and buy.

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Find inventory

Inventory Components lists one inventory type at a time. When your ad server offers more than one type, such as Google Ad Manager placements and ad units, choose the type to browse. If your FreeWheel products require Ad Units or Ad Unit Packages, you choose those in the product form rather than here.
  • Search matches any part of a component’s name or its source ID, the identifier your ad server uses for it. Case does not matter. For Google Ad Manager ad units, searching for just video or display lists the ad units that support that media type instead of matching names.
  • Source ID appears on every row, so you can tell apart components with similar names and match them to your ad server.
  • Pages hold 50 components. When your ad server has more, Load more from the ad server fetches the next 50.
Your accept, hide and remap decisions, and the components you select, stay in place while you search, change type or load more, so you can draft one product from components found in different searches. They last while Inventory Components is open. Switching to a different ad-server source clears them.