Google Base Feeder Support Thread [OLD]

[Ryk]

I previously understood GoogleBase/Product Search only supported shops located in USA. Has this changed? Maybe upload and/or FTP success is negatively impacted based on the IP you are uploading from?

Not sure about that - but following the upload via Googlebase itself last night, the products are now showing.

The site from which I'm trying to FTP via the mod is on a UK server, as is my own connection from which I'm trying to FTP direct. When I make the direct transfer, I don't get an error message but the file shows as 0kb in size and is not viewable in a text editor...but does that mean that google simply moves it elsewhere the moment it arrives?

I'll have a word with the host about the time-outs.

[Pixxi]

Ryk:

Google (lately) does seem to move it the moment it arrives - I haven't been able to 'view' it on the Google FTP server for quite some while. It might be an idea to remove that bit of text and link from the mod's admin screen.

[Ryk]

Thanks for that Pixxi - that sort of ties in with what Google themselves say in that you can only see what you've FTP'd immediately after you've done it...looks like "immediately" is a matter of nanoseconds!

[mbols]

Well it was my bad I went brain dead I was using the login for my eBay store.
I have a different account now for my website site & set up a new FTP log in.
I was able to manually upload & got no errors today. And not much of a wait time either.
Also I think that google may have been way busy yesterday since the upload I made yesterday hadn't finished processing but had done some of the items & showed me that I can't upload into the same account as my ebay store.

[onlyrey]

Hi,

I had a problem and partially solved it. I would like to know how to get the google base feeder (thank you very much for this contribution, it is Excellent) to work properly without my need to intervene.

Problem:
When the froogle.txt file is created, all the values for the field "brand" are empty. This causes google base to invalidate the upload.

Solution:
Add my store name in the "brand" field for every product and upload manually.

Question:
What is the field from my product database that is mapped to the "brand" field in the froogle.txt?; I just might add my store name to all the products for this value.
Is this a bug?

Thank you very much in advance

[onlyrey]

Hi,

I had a problem and partially solved it. I would like to know how to get the google base feeder (thank you very much for this contribution, it is Excellent) to work properly without my need to intervene.

Problem:
When the froogle.txt file is created, all the values for the field "brand" are empty. This causes google base to invalidate the upload.

Solution:
Add my store name in the "brand" field for every product and upload manually.

Question:
What is the field from my product database that is mapped to the "brand" field in the froogle.txt?; I just might add my store name to all the products for this value.
Is this a bug?

Thank you very much in advance

Ok,

Here is a partial answer to the "brand" question.

I looked up the code, and the brand field in the froogle text file corresponds to the "manufacturer" field in Zen-cart.

I will solve this problem by applying a manufacturer to ALL my products.

So, if you have manufacturers as "none" you might have problems with the google validation (the actual feeder code is fine and sends an empty field, but the google side takes it as an error).

Thanks very much fot this wonderful module

[numinix]

Google doesn't take it as an error. The brand attribute is required and leaving it blank will cause your feed to not be validated. If your products are something that your own company produces/manufactures, then your company is definitely the brand name of the product.

IMPORTANT

More renegade code has been found in the UPC/ISBN mod and MAY be in the GBF as well. As I haven't heard of any problems, this is probably not the case. Either way, I am not going to release a patch and ask that anyone experiencing SQL problems from the UPC/ISBN mod included with GBF v1.4.8 please visit, and bookmark, this thread: http://www.zen-cart.com/forum/showth...765#post411765

You can fix this error by quickly moving the lines found by another forum member that lead to the release of UPC/ISBN v1.2

[BlessIsaacola]

It would be great and cleaner to provide update SQL for this mod (especially since you took it over from where Andrew left off). The current SQL doesn't take into account that other mods your provided already created the UPC/ISBN fields in products table.

Not providing a cleaner upgrade path definitely leads to too many DB errors and makes using mod more complicated than it needs to be.

Thanks!

[BlessIsaacola]

There is an undesired effect that is happening with this mod that didn't exist with the version that was created by Andrew. This version 1.4.8 is generating duplicate products if a product is linked. Previous version on generated one product no matter how many category the product is linked to. It would be great if this can be fixed. Thanks!

[numinix]

It would be great and cleaner to provide update SQL for this mod (especially since you took it over from where Andrew left off). The current SQL doesn't take into account that other mods your provided already created the UPC/ISBN fields in products table.

Not providing a cleaner upgrade path definitely leads to too many DB errors and makes using mod more complicated than it needs to be.

Thanks!

An error will not be produced, the SQL will ignore those lines. If an upgrade to the SQL is needed, an upgrade SQL file is provided. If one is not provided, the update merely requires file overwrites. The installation documentation has been greatly lengthened to avoid any issues.

There is an undesired effect that is happening with this mod that didn't exist with the version that was created by Andrew. This version 1.4.8 is generating duplicate products if a product is linked. Previous version on generated one product no matter how many category the product is linked to. It would be great if this can be fixed. Thanks!

Which version were you using before? Andrew's latest version was v1.3.3. This mod works by going through each productID until it reaches the end of the DB file. Unless your links are creating brand new productID's in the database, it will not include a duplicate of your product.