Froogle Merchant Center merged into GoogleBase

[jewelrylady]

IT WORKED!! woohooo!!

You have to upload VIA FTP, i tried uploading just by clicking Browse and it didnt work, but the FTP worked.

[BlessIsaacola]

Has anybody modified the original froogle generator to help with the new google base? Anyone know if there is better luck with errors using Tim/Andrew's generator. They both worked perfect with froogle but now it's hit/miss. It's not a fault of the mod just new rules

It's very cumbersome to try and adjust 1,000s of product by hand as 1/2 my products are throwing error and they were fine with Froogle.

[jewelrylady]

I used the froogle file feeder and I worked just fine.

[denliv]

jewelrylady - have you logged into the googlebase website to verify there's no errors in your upload? Without changing the froogle feeder none of the products should have been successfully read by google.
Dennis

[BlessIsaacola]

jewelrylady - have you logged into the googlebase website to verify there's no errors in your upload? Without changing the froogle feeder none of the products should have been successfully read by google.
Dennis

Yeah! I logged in and GoogleBase is telling me I have 811 errors even though it's the same feed that I used to upload to froogle. I am not sure why GoogleBase cannot recognize the same information that Froogle processed just fine.

[KADesign]

When I did my first feed after Google switched, I had over half of my products missing and a ton of errors. The next time I generated a Froogle file from admin, I clicked on save file as and saved it as a text file. I always did this prior to the change and simply locate and upload from Google. My file is small enough I can do that. But anyway...this time I made sure to pay attention to the encoding. I saved it with UTF-8 encoding and didn't have one single error.

Just thought I would add that in the event it may help someone else.

Good Luck!
Kelly

[KADesign]

In case I didn't explain myself well, I use one of the contributions that allow you to create the froogle file in the shop admin. You can then click on view file. When viewing the file you can go to file and then save file as. First choose the file name then the type and finally you choose the encoding. By clicking on ecoding you are shown a drop down menu giving you the options. I have included a screenshot.
I hope this helps.




Thanks,
Kelly

[BlessIsaacola]

Kelly, thanks for the idea about saving it as UTF 8. That significantly reduced my error. I will look more into the rejected products to see what's common with them.

Does anyone know where I will change the headings for the googlefroogle generator so that it uses the new heading instead of the old one?

Thanks!

[plowe1]

if anyone cares to look @ my original post on this topic, i have modified the froogle feeder to outpu using google base's new field headings, however, the feed isnt UTF-8 compatible..... this was the case before i modified the headings.....

i am waiting to see if anyone can correct this issue, if they can its a case of uploading this one new file, and you can use froogle feeder with google base.

[Woodymon]

i am waiting to see if anyone can correct this issue, if they can its a case of uploading this one new file, and you can use froogle feeder with google base.

I've been awaiting Andrew (a_berezin) to follow-up on this but I don't see him on the support forums anymore.

Appears than many of the international based Zen Cart mod developers have been scared off. This is most unfortunate.

Woody