---
title: PublicationUserError - GraphQL Admin
description: Defines errors encountered while managing a publication.
api_version: 2025-10
api_name: admin
type: object
api_type: graphql
source_url:
  html: https://shopify.dev/docs/api/admin-graphql/latest/objects/publicationusererror
  md: https://shopify.dev/docs/api/admin-graphql/latest/objects/publicationusererror.md
---

# Publication​User​Error

object

Defines errors encountered while managing a publication.

## Fields

* code

  [Publication​User​Error​Code](https://shopify.dev/docs/api/admin-graphql/latest/enums/PublicationUserErrorCode)

  The error code.

* field

  [\[String!\]](https://shopify.dev/docs/api/admin-graphql/latest/scalars/String)

  The path to the input field that caused the error.

* message

  [String!](https://shopify.dev/docs/api/admin-graphql/latest/scalars/String)

  non-null

  The error message.

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## Map

No referencing types

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## Mutations

* [publication​Create](https://shopify.dev/docs/api/admin-graphql/latest/mutations/publicationCreate)

  mutation

  Creates a [`Publication`](https://shopify.dev/docs/api/admin-graphql/latest/objects/Publication) that controls which [`Product`](https://shopify.dev/docs/api/admin-graphql/latest/objects/Product) and [`Collection`](https://shopify.dev/docs/api/admin-graphql/latest/objects/Collection) customers can access through a [`Catalog`](https://shopify.dev/docs/api/admin-graphql/latest/interfaces/Catalog).

  You can create an empty publication and add products later, or prepopulate it with all existing products. The [`autoPublish`](https://shopify.dev/docs/api/admin-graphql/latest/mutations/publicationCreate#arguments-input.fields.autoPublish) field determines whether the publication automatically adds newly created products.

* [publication​Delete](https://shopify.dev/docs/api/admin-graphql/latest/mutations/publicationDelete)

  mutation

  Deletes a publication.

* [publication​Update](https://shopify.dev/docs/api/admin-graphql/latest/mutations/publicationUpdate)

  mutation

  Updates a [`Publication`](https://shopify.dev/docs/api/admin-graphql/latest/objects/Publication).

  You can add or remove [products](https://shopify.dev/docs/api/admin-graphql/latest/objects/Product) from the publication, with a maximum of 50 items per operation. The [`autoPublish`](https://shopify.dev/docs/api/admin-graphql/latest/mutations/publicationUpdate#arguments-input.fields.autoPublish) field determines whether new products automatically display in this publication.

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## <\~> PublicationUserError Mutations

### Mutated by

* <\~>[publication​Create](https://shopify.dev/docs/api/admin-graphql/latest/mutations/publicationCreate)
* <\~>[publication​Delete](https://shopify.dev/docs/api/admin-graphql/latest/mutations/publicationDelete)
* <\~>[publication​Update](https://shopify.dev/docs/api/admin-graphql/latest/mutations/publicationUpdate)

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## Interfaces

* [Displayable​Error](https://shopify.dev/docs/api/admin-graphql/latest/interfaces/DisplayableError)

  interface

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## ||-PublicationUserError Implements

### Implements

* ||-[Displayable​Error](https://shopify.dev/docs/api/admin-graphql/latest/interfaces/DisplayableError)