Google Base Feeder Support Thread [OLD]

[mydanilo]

I upgraded because I get error reports from Google:

Some items do not get inserted and I don't know why....

Feed status details

Outcome: Data feed has some errors. Some items contained errors and were not processed successfully, but all other items are active. - help
Number of items processed: 223
Number of inserted items: 181
Uploaded at: May 8, 2008 10:38 pm EDT
Processed at: May 8, 2008 10:39 pm EDT


Errors:
Error Bad data Line #
We recommend including this attribute. - help

isbn:

647
We recommend including this attribute. - help

upc:

647
The item is missing a required attribute. - help

description:

647

This is a product feed, why would it want isbn attribute? I see that it required a product description. Maybe this is the main problem? I have some items with just title but no description.

[mydanilo]

Google Base Feeder v.1.6.14a

I was missing the googlefroogle.php in the root. My bad..

Question about the errors from google about my feed still apply.

[seanscully]

I want to activate my Google Checkout and searched this thread but don't quite understand yet how to activate or add the Payment_accepted attribute in the google_base.xml file - can you tell me where to add the info I got from Google's web site. <g: payment_accepted>GoogleCheckout</g: payment_accepted> and where to add it in the file named??

Google info:
http://base.google.com/base/formatti...d=3&country=US

Payment_accepted
What it is: The acceptable payment methods for this item.How to format: Acceptable values are: Cash, Check, GoogleCheckout, Visa, MasterCard, AmericanExpress, Discover, and WireTransfer. You may include as many methods as you accept. For tab-delimited, separate each payment method by a comma. For XML, include each payment method as a separate tag.Tab-delimited example: Visa, MasterCard, DiscoverXML example: <g: payment_accepted>Visa</g: payment_accepted>
<g: payment_accepted> MasterCard</g: payment_accepted>
<g: payment_accepted> Discover</g: payment_accepted>

[numinix]

Google Base Feeder v.1.6.14a

I was missing the googlefroogle.php in the root. My bad..

Question about the errors from google about my feed still apply.

I am not sure what assistance you need on top of the explanations returned by Google? These are required attributes. If you do not have a UPC, you must have an ISBN. If you don't have an ISBN, you must have a UPC.

I want to activate my Google Checkout and searched this thread but don't quite understand yet how to activate or add the Payment_accepted attribute in the google_base.xml file - can you tell me where to add the info I got from Google's web site. <g: payment_accepted>GoogleCheckout</g: payment_accepted> and where to add it in the file named??

Google info:
http://base.google.com/base/formatti...d=3&country=US

Payment_accepted
What it is: The acceptable payment methods for this item.How to format: Acceptable values are: Cash, Check, GoogleCheckout, Visa, MasterCard, AmericanExpress, Discover, and WireTransfer. You may include as many methods as you accept. For tab-delimited, separate each payment method by a comma. For XML, include each payment method as a separate tag.Tab-delimited example: Visa, MasterCard, DiscoverXML example: <g: payment_accepted>Visa</g: payment_accepted>
<g: payment_accepted> MasterCard</g: payment_accepted>
<g: payment_accepted> Discover</g: payment_accepted>

This is already supported in the latest version.

[duquecigars]

I keep getting this error code when I upload a feed



We didn't understand the header (first) row of your file. Please make sure you're using valid attribute names. - help <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?>: 1

can someone tell me what IM doing wrong?

[mydanilo]

I am not sure what assistance you need on top of the explanations returned by Google? These are required attributes. If you do not have a UPC, you must have an ISBN. If you don't have an ISBN, you must have a UPC.

What? UPC and ISBN fields are not even present in Zen Cart products. I don't have them and never needed them before. Up to very recently I used v 1.3.2 and had froogle.txt file that I uploaded without any errors. Now I upgraded zen cart to 1.3.8a and figured I upgrade Google Base Feeder as well. Now the mod creates a *.xml file and I get error reports back from Google. I don't understand why I suddenly need UPC and ISBN?

I know I have some products without the description, I will fix that and see if Google still complains about UPC and ISBN.

[numinix]

What? UPC and ISBN fields are not even present in Zen Cart products. I don't have them and never needed them before. Up to very recently I used v 1.3.2 and had froogle.txt file that I uploaded without any errors. Now I upgraded zen cart to 1.3.8a and figured I upgrade Google Base Feeder as well. Now the mod creates a *.xml file and I get error reports back from Google. I don't understand why I suddenly need UPC and ISBN?

I know I have some products without the description, I will fix that and see if Google still complains about UPC and ISBN.

I am merely reiterating what Google that Google has stated that all products need a UPC or ISBN. Whether or not they enforce it is another thing. Most likely your items were rejected for other reasons and now they are also pointing out that you do not have UPCs

[alray10]

Google in the UK are now requiring a EAN number this is easy to do just by changing

$content["upc"] = '<g:upc>' . zen_froogle_sanita($products->fields['products_upc'], true) . '</g:upc>

to

$content["upc"] = '<g:ean>' . zen_froogle_sanita($products->fields['products_upc'], true) . '</g:ean>

in googlefoogle.php about line 213
The problem I am having is we have about 5,000 products and at this time we are still trying to get the EAN numbers from the suppliers for about 1,500 of them, is there away to set it up so if the UPC field is blank it will not add the product to the feed.