# Missing field 'text' (in 'mainEntity.suggestedAnswer')
**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/missing-field-text-in-mainentity-suggestedanswer/399974
**Category:** Bug
**Created:** [April 5, 2026, 7:44am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/missing-field-text-in-mainentity-suggestedanswer/399974 "2026-04-05T07:44:41Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
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### Author:  [@Richie](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Richie)
#### Post date: [April 5, 2026, 7:44am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/missing-field-text-in-mainentity-suggestedanswer/399974/1 "2026-04-05T07:44:41Z")
Further to this bug last week:
> [@Google search console acceptedAnswer error](https://meta.discourse.org/t/google-search-console-acceptedanswer-error/399525):
>
> Continuing the discussion from [Either 'acceptedAnswer' or 'suggestedAnswer' should be specified](https://meta.discourse.org/t/either-acceptedanswer-or-suggestedanswer-should-be-specified/111809/3): I had this issue pop today suddenly after updating to this week’s latest build. Any thoughts as to why it suddenly started? The site has been around for a decade and so has the page that’s affected by it. The topic has only one post (wiki) from the admin (it’s a notice FAQ topic).
And:
[https://github.com/discourse/discourse/pull/38964](https://github.com/discourse/discourse/pull/38964)
I updated this morning to 2026.4.0-latest ([97400099a5](https://github.com/discourse/discourse/commits/97400099a5ca6fbc247dc93d9a575d3750f7425d)) but I’m still unable to validate the fixes with Google 🤔
My Google search console is showing:
Clicking through to the validation / fix steps:
And when I try to validate any of the fixes:
I get the same “affected pages were found” error for all three types.
Have I missed something? 🤔
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### Author:  [@davidb](https://meta.discourse.org/u/davidb)
#### Post date: [April 6, 2026, 10:44am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/missing-field-text-in-mainentity-suggestedanswer/399974/2 "2026-04-06T10:44:45Z")
Thank you for reporting, we are looking into this issue and should have an update soon.
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### Author:  [@Richie](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Richie)
#### Post date: [April 6, 2026, 11:41am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/missing-field-text-in-mainentity-suggestedanswer/399974/3 "2026-04-06T11:41:47Z")
Thanks @davidb very grateful 😃
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### Author:  [@davidb](https://meta.discourse.org/u/davidb)
#### Post date: [April 7, 2026, 4:09pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/missing-field-text-in-mainentity-suggestedanswer/399974/5 "2026-04-07T16:09:10Z")
I merged a change that should fix most of the errors you are seeing (ie. missing name/answerCount). It turned out these values were missing from the microdata:
[https://github.com/discourse/discourse/commit/6e8876152c45c2bd7c2f1c0eb6a248f47de9f89c](https://github.com/discourse/discourse/commit/6e8876152c45c2bd7c2f1c0eb6a248f47de9f89c)
The 3 problem urls in the last image appear to be a separate issue, 2 of them are emoji only posts with no text and the third is an image only post. But I ran them through the [Schema markup validator](https://validator.schema.org/?hl=en-US) by pasting the page source and all appear to have zero warnings or errors.
Possibly these 3 page issues will clear on a re-crawl.
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### Author:  [@Richie](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Richie)
#### Post date: [April 8, 2026, 12:45pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/missing-field-text-in-mainentity-suggestedanswer/399974/6 "2026-04-08T12:45:52Z")
Thanks David 😃
Will update Discourse again on Friday and re-try 🤞🏻
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### Author:  [@MichaIng](https://meta.discourse.org/u/MichaIng)
#### Post date: [April 9, 2026, 1:23pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/missing-field-text-in-mainentity-suggestedanswer/399974/7 "2026-04-09T13:23:38Z")
3 errors seem to be fixed, but 1 is remaining + 6 lesser severity annotations, all about missing fields within the suggested/acceptedAnswer elements:
Validation started means the issue is solved. “Not Started” means I couldn’t start it, since the quick initial validation still fond these issues, and I could verify that in the actual page source.
The “text” and “datePublished” fields were actually added to tests with the commit (and our instance contains that commit), but probably at the wrong element? E.g. “datePublished” is expected at the mainEntity, while the tests check it at the suggested/acceptedAnswer?
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### Author:  [@Richie](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Richie)
#### Post date: [April 9, 2026, 1:42pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/missing-field-text-in-mainentity-suggestedanswer/399974/8 "2026-04-09T13:42:06Z")
Could we not auto-close this topic just yet, please?
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### Author:  [@davidb](https://meta.discourse.org/u/davidb)
#### Post date: [April 9, 2026, 1:43pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/missing-field-text-in-mainentity-suggestedanswer/399974/9 "2026-04-09T13:43:51Z")
Thank you for sharing, I will take a look into this soon and drop another update.
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### Author:  [@Richie](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Richie)
#### Post date: [April 16, 2026, 7:11am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/missing-field-text-in-mainentity-suggestedanswer/399974/10 "2026-04-16T07:11:58Z")
Are there any status updates you can share on this one from last week please, @davidb ?
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### Author:  [@davidb](https://meta.discourse.org/u/davidb)
#### Post date: [April 16, 2026, 5:33pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/missing-field-text-in-mainentity-suggestedanswer/399974/11 "2026-04-16T17:33:34Z")
I’ve made some further updates to tackle this in [DEV: update solved schema for non text posts (#39253) · discourse/discourse@3b5874f · GitHub](https://github.com/discourse/discourse/commit/3b5874f94b0395023f3b7bf04f3ac8dae3ec80f2) which was merged earlier today.
I will keep this topic open for a while to see if this change solves the issues experienced.
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### Author:  [@Richie](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Richie)
#### Post date: [April 16, 2026, 5:49pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/missing-field-text-in-mainentity-suggestedanswer/399974/12 "2026-04-16T17:49:13Z")
Great, thanks for the update @davidb
I’ll take my Discourse offline tomorrow morning and update, then try again 🙂
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### Author:  [@Richie](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Richie)
#### Post date: [April 17, 2026, 6:29pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/missing-field-text-in-mainentity-suggestedanswer/399974/13 "2026-04-17T18:29:53Z")
It’s still failing on some I’m afraid 😔
There are several thousand currently being checked by Google, I shall post the outcome of these in due course:
But these two are types are failing the pre-validation check, I can’t even run a full check on them:
If it helps, that last one is a post containing a YouTube video.
I’m not the only one with this issue, surely? 🤔
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### Author:  [@Richie](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Richie)
#### Post date: [April 19, 2026, 10:41am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/missing-field-text-in-mainentity-suggestedanswer/399974/14 "2026-04-19T10:41:25Z")
Still failing I’m afraid 😕
I had an email to say 1,600 had been resolved:
But there are still a few hundred that remain affected 😕
And the same for the ‘answerCount’:
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### Author:  [@davidb](https://meta.discourse.org/u/davidb)
#### Post date: [April 19, 2026, 11:27am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/missing-field-text-in-mainentity-suggestedanswer/399974/15 "2026-04-19T11:27:20Z")
Sorry to hear this. Can you share any urls so I can investigate?
I thought all of the issues you shared here were covered in my last commit that was merged, so maybe there is some other edge case.
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### Author:  [@Richie](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Richie)
#### Post date: [April 19, 2026, 3:26pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/missing-field-text-in-mainentity-suggestedanswer/399974/16 "2026-04-19T15:26:49Z")
Here are a bunch of copy/pastes from the Google Search Console list if it helps @davidb
```plaintext
[
](https://search.google.com/search-console/r/q-and-a/drilldown?resource_id=sc-domain:greyarro.ws)
|URL|Item name|Last crawled|
| --- | --- | --- |
|https://greyarro.ws/t/charging-the-remote-mavic-2/3809|N/A|18 Apr 2026|
|https://greyarro.ws/t/searching-for-missing-persons/80386|N/A|18 Apr 2026|
|https://greyarro.ws/t/what-can-make-a-gps-signal-poor-re-dji-neo/89332?page=2|N/A|18 Apr 2026|
|https://greyarro.ws/t/disadvantages-of-keeping-already-bound-mavic-3/52125?page=2|N/A|18 Apr 2026|
|https://greyarro.ws/t/avata-2-flying-backwards/79111|N/A|18 Apr 2026|
|https://greyarro.ws/t/pairing-mavic-mini-to-controller/84503|N/A|17 Apr 2026|
|https://greyarro.ws/t/recommended-mini-5-pro-settings-for-smoother-gain-expo-yaw-camera-and-more/101901|N/A|17 Apr 2026|
|https://greyarro.ws/t/power-line-height/29785|N/A|17 Apr 2026|
|https://greyarro.ws/t/why-not-hlg-on-dji-mini-4-pro/102886|N/A|17 Apr 2026|
|https://greyarro.ws/t/cheap-mini-drone-for-indoors-recommendations/91541|N/A|17 Apr 2026|
|https://greyarro.ws/t/tripltek-tablet-feedback-from-owners-and-general-discussion/31144?page=2|N/A|16 Apr 2026|
|https://greyarro.ws/t/ipad-pro-and-dng-files/73819|N/A|16 Apr 2026|
|https://greyarro.ws/t/osd-not-shoing-up-dji/71740|N/A|16 Apr 2026|
|https://greyarro.ws/t/theoretical-scenario/87594|N/A|16 Apr 2026|
|https://greyarro.ws/t/where-would-the-address-linked-to-my-dji-account-be-if-anywhere/93152|N/A|16 Apr 2026|
|https://greyarro.ws/t/gusts-gusts-gusts-what-maximum-wind-gust-speed-do-you-consider-safe-for-flying/106683|N/A|16 Apr 2026|
|https://greyarro.ws/t/can-i-fly-my-drone-in-the-rain/21853|N/A|15 Apr 2026|
|https://greyarro.ws/t/flytron-strobon-strobe-lights/8504?page=4|N/A|15 Apr 2026|
```
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### Author:  [@Richie](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Richie)
#### Post date: [April 21, 2026, 7:19am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/missing-field-text-in-mainentity-suggestedanswer/399974/17 "2026-04-21T07:19:22Z")
Google sent me an email today with a new issue added that wasn’t in their list last week 😕
- `Duplicate field 'datePublished' (in 'mainEntity')`
At the moment the `Duplicate field 'datePublished' (in 'mainEntity')` only relates to a single URL of:
- `https://greyarro.ws/t/live-video-relayed-to-phone-very-laggy-now/39741`
As per:
* * *
Also, if this is of use, while not a critical error like the others they offer this “Improve item appearance” section which lists lots of “Missing field” values:
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### Author:  [@davidb](https://meta.discourse.org/u/davidb)
#### Post date: [April 23, 2026, 11:03am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/missing-field-text-in-mainentity-suggestedanswer/399974/18 "2026-04-23T11:03:14Z")
Just a quick update to let you know that I am working on this. Hope to have an update soon.
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### Author:  [@Richie](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Richie)
#### Post date: [April 29, 2026, 2:03pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/missing-field-text-in-mainentity-suggestedanswer/399974/19 "2026-04-29T14:03:36Z")
Thanks @davidb, I appreciate the time you’re spending on this issue 🙇
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### Author:  [@davidb](https://meta.discourse.org/u/davidb)
#### Post date: [May 7, 2026, 11:08am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/missing-field-text-in-mainentity-suggestedanswer/399974/20 "2026-05-07T11:08:32Z")
One thing you can do is click the “test live url” button on problem pages to see if they are actually still an issue or just a cached version that Google is checking against.
Which will often appear fine:
It’s been about 2 weeks since I merged the last fix for this. Overall I am noticing that these schema errors are trending downwards since these fixes were merged:
The painful part is that there is a delay in Google Search Console after validating changes (ie. Google’s daily indexing/crawl quota per website). So on larger sites it can take longer for fixes to be acknowledged across all pages.
Setting a reminder for myself to check back in on this again in 2 weeks time.
In the mean time if you are still experiencing any new issues related to this please add them here and I will investigate.
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### Author:  [@RBoy](https://meta.discourse.org/u/RBoy)
#### Post date: [May 7, 2026, 12:21pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/missing-field-text-in-mainentity-suggestedanswer/399974/21 "2026-05-07T12:21:59Z")
I had this issue pop up yesterday.
The UrL is [Audio track missing/stripped from conversion - #16 mattcool1 - Emby - MCEBuddy](https://discussion.mcebuddy2x.com/t/audio-track-missing-stripped-from-conversion/1402/16?tl=zh_TW)
Discourse is running version 2026.4.0([3532c82582](https://github.com/discourse/discourse/commits/3532c825824ee1259628545c7bd5311ecb918009))
If I try to validate the fix Google gives me this error
## Cannot continue validation process
Affected pages were found. Fix the issue and run validation again
_error\_outline_
> **[Audio track missing/stripped from conversion](https://discussion.mcebuddy2x.com/t/audio-track-missing-stripped-from-conversion/1402/16?tl=zh_TW)**
>
> ok let me try with different extension
Item: Audio track missing/stripped from conversion
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