Google Base Feeder Support Thread [OLD]

I have installed the Numinix Product Fields, UPC/ISBN Product Fields, and the Google Base. After several days of work I have product fields accepting UPC codes, I have Google Feed generating XML for Google Base, and I have Google Base accepting 100% of my items. This was big for me!

Now after all that, I have noticed that when I go in to edit a product or create a new product, the Date Available: field at the top of the page not longer has a box to enter a date in. The text for Date Available is still there, just no entry box. Can anyone point me in the right direction as to what could fix this or where exactly the code would be that would control this?

Thanks

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Originally Posted by jimmyz911

I have installed the Numinix Product Fields, UPC/ISBN Product Fields, and the Google Base. After several days of work I have product fields accepting UPC codes, I have Google Feed generating XML for Google Base, and I have Google Base accepting 100% of my items. This was big for me!

Now after all that, I have noticed that when I go in to edit a product or create a new product, the Date Available: field at the top of the page not longer has a box to enter a date in. The text for Date Available is still there, just no entry box. Can anyone point me in the right direction as to what could fix this or where exactly the code would be that would control this?

Thanks

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WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAYYYYY off topic for this thread as the issue is not likely caused by the Google Base Feeder mod.. You might want to post this in the support thread for one of those other mods which ACTUALLY modified your product add/edit files..

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Originally Posted by DivaVocals

WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAYYYYY off topic for this thread as the issue is not likely caused by the Google Base Feeder mod.. You might want to post this in the support thread for one of those other mods which ACTUALLY modified your product add/edit files..

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Thank you. I was not sure which upgrade caused the issue. I will check the other two I installed to find a solution.

I did notice many users writing in with issues with Google Base not accepting 100% of their products when manually uploaded. Status shows 100 of 150 for example. I did not see many solutions to this posted. I found that if I change my settings in Google Base for the data feed file from Automatic detect encoding to UTF-8, all products were accepted. I didn't even have to reload the XML file, it just reprocessed the last one loaded to 100% status. I guess Google Base is having trouble autodetecting the encoding of the Google Base Feeder XML file. Hope this helps someone save time as it took me hours to make this discovery.

Is there any way to add support for the "part number" field? I believe this is important on google but its not supported here...

Regarding my earlier post for people who wish to get products featured in more than one Currency in more than one country (copy below)

I've managed to find a way to do this now, but it would be great if somone could advise how I can change settings or code to make this automated.

What I do is go to the following - Configuration>Google Base Feeder Configuration - and then change the currency from GBP to USD. Then I go to Tools > Google Base Feeder and click on 'Create Product Field' then after it is created, right click on 'View' and save the XML file, and this file contains all prices in USD not GBP. I then go back to Configuration>Google Base Feeder Configuration and change the currency back to GBP so the automated process will not be affected for UK target audience in GBP.

I then rename the XML file to the name I have for USD currency targeting Unites States on Google Base website, and then manually upload the file. And it works.

It look like I'll have to do this every month (if I remember!), unless somone can advise on how to get this automated ?!? :(

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I installed this great MOD before Christmas, and it works well. Also set up a Cron Job so that the feed is uploaded to Google base automatically.

This is my problem. Our website shows the prices in two currencies GBP Pounds £ and USD Dollars $. Our default is pounds, buty we also show the $ equivalent on every page. The Google Base Feeder creates a product feed with the prices in £, and this is uploaded auytomatically to Google base to a data feed Targeting the United Kingdom. What I want to do is create another feed with all the prices marked in USD, and upload it to another Google base data feed that has the target country set to the United States. If this could be created automatically and updated to Google Base like the GBP version, then great, but if not, does anyone know how to do this manually?

Thanks for your time.

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I also have the problem of not having Admin>>Tools>>Google Base Feeder. It simply isn't there. I HAVE uploaded my files correctly (i.e., the renamed admin folder). Are there any other things that could possibly cause this issue?

Okay...I figured out that problem (old PHP version on testing server, I'm guessing, worked perfectly fine on live site). Now, I'm trying to figure out why I'm getting duplicate product listings in the XML file. I used Easy Populate to import the products.

Odd question here....I suddenly can no longer VIEW the feed in my browser. The feed should be located HERE but not sure why it no longer displays anything. The text is there in the physical file though.

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Originally Posted by khopek

Odd question here....I suddenly can no longer VIEW the feed in my browser. The feed should be located HERE but not sure why it no longer displays anything. The text is there in the physical file though.

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I was able to see your feed, 342 of 342.

Had a bit of weird message from Google Froogle Feeder Today.

I have using it for ages with no problems - until this evening. I uploaded my feed from zen cart as usual and then received an email from google.

Clicking on the feed status link says the below:

Prohibited word in attribute: description (6 errors)

Please check our Programme Policies and make sure that you are not submitting any prohibited items.
Learn more.

Examples:
Item Nr. Line No.
99 1,886
101 1,924
196 3,729
198 3,767
199 3,786

The thing being - my description field is the exact same for every single line? And why only start giving me a problem today?

Edit - the desctiption field simply says: Rich Tone Music Ltd - Online Guitar Store

Seems strange - and i'm baffled. Answers on a postcard please?