The Scenario
You ran a 500-TCIN RedCircle collection yesterday. This morning the results show 40 errors. Your manager wants to know which products are unavailable on Target, which are API errors, and whether any of the TCINs were just malformed inputs. That means a diagnostic table — failed TCIN, error code, error message — before the standup at 10.
You have the collection ID. You have 90 minutes.
The bad version:
- Log into the RedCircle dashboard, navigate to the collection, look for an error breakdown — the UI shows a count but no filterable table
- Find the error logs API endpoint in the documentation, write a test call, parse the response format
- Get the error data into a CSV, import it into the sheet, realize the "error_code" and "error_message" fields are nested inside an "errors" array, restructure the rows manually
Forty errors is enough to be meaningful. Missing the right diagnosis because the diagnostic table took three hours to build is the wrong outcome.
The Easy Way: One Prompt in SheetXAI
SheetXAI reads your Google Sheet and connects to the RedCircle API. It can pull error logs for a specific collection and build the diagnostic table directly.
Pull RedCircle error logs for collection ID col_789 and populate my sheet with each failed request's TCIN, error type, and error description
What You Get
- Column A: failed TCIN
- Column B: error type / error code (e.g. "NOT_FOUND", "INVALID_TCIN", "RATE_LIMIT")
- Column C: error message text
- Column D: timestamp of the failed request
One row per failed request, 40 rows total. Sorted by error code so patterns are visible at a glance.
What If the Data Is Not Quite Ready
You want error logs across all collections, not just one
You manage multiple collections and want a combined error log for the monthly debugging session.
List all error logs from my RedCircle API account and write the failed TCIN, error code, error message, and timestamp into this sheet — include the collection ID in column E so you can see which collection each error came from
You want to cross-reference failed TCINs against your original input list
The original 500 TCINs are in a separate tab called "Input". You want to flag which ones failed.
Pull error logs for RedCircle collection col_789, then for each failed TCIN check whether it exists in column A of the "Input" tab and write the match result in column D — "Found in Input" or "Not in Input List"
You want to group the errors by type to see which category is largest
40 errors might be mostly NOT_FOUND (unavailable products) or mostly INVALID_TCIN (data quality issues). That's a different action in each case.
Pull error logs for RedCircle collection col_789, write the full error table in columns A through D, then on a second tab named "Summary" write a count of errors by error code — error code in column A, count in column B, sorted by count descending
You want the full diagnosis — error table, summary, and a cleaned input list ready for a retry
The goal isn't just to document the errors. It's to fix the fixable ones and re-run.
Pull error logs for RedCircle collection col_789 and write failed TCIN, error code, error message, and timestamp into columns A through D. On a tab named "Summary" write error counts by type. On a tab named "Retry" write only the TCINs where error code is not NOT_FOUND — those are the fixable errors worth resubmitting
Diagnostic table, summary, and retry list — one prompt, three tabs.
Try It
Get the 7-day free trial of SheetXAI and open any Google Sheet where you're managing a RedCircle collection run, then ask it to pull the error logs and build the diagnostic table you need. See also the spoke on building batch collections from a spreadsheet or the hub overview on connecting RedCircle API to Google Sheets.