Question: mainEntity property of CreativeWork type

[danzhik]

Hello guys!

I'm currently creating Q&A page on my website, marking it with 'QAPage' schema type. Structured Data Testing Tool tells that 'mainEntity' property is required by this type, but I don't fully understand what is supposed to be as content of this property. Could you please clarify it somehow?

Thanks in advance!

[danbri]

The configuration of Google's validation tooling is out of scope for Schema.org. Schema.org itself has no notion of mandatory or required properties. Schema.org isn't Google - we can't offer any kind of support for Google (or other search engine) products and services here. I'll close the issue, but if others happen to have useful pointers, they can of course share them here. Otherwise you might try the Google Product Forums, eg https://productforums.google.com/forum/#!topicsearchin/webmasters/category$3Astructured-data%7Csort:relevance%7Cspell:false

[danbri]

/cc @dbiollo

[unor]

You would typically want the Question to be the mainEntity (minimal Microdata example).