Google Base Feeder Support Thread [OLD]

[jmcdog]

Google did accept all of my products after I reverted to the prev. version. It's not as pretty as before but good enough for today. I just wanted to replace bullets with an asterisk. It also strips out the ampersand html entity (and probably others).

[tcustomgolf]

Had the same character issue with 1.7.1a which I upgraded from 1.6.2, using zen 1.3.8.

I downloaded a new version on Numinix' site (1.7.3a) and all products upload without error.

Looks like this version has not been posted on the Zen download section, but it is here:

v1.7.3a

Numinix, thanks for the quick fix... and great mod!

[blakdeth77]

Hi, I'm trying to list my products on Google Base, and they seem to be approved each time once the file is uploaded to Base.

But, I would really like to include the Products Model information from each product. Is there some adjustment I can make to any of the files included with the feeder program so that it will extract that information too?

I have searched for "model" in this thread and haven't had much luck. If someone can point me in the right direction I'd really appreciate it. Or if Numinix can lend a hand that'd be splendid also!

Matt
tuningspeedonline.com

[blakdeth77]

Actually to clarify about my s/w. I have never installed the Base Feeder before so it's a new install. I am using ZC v1.3.8a, and installed google base feeder 1.7.1 . I found on the first post in this thread that MPN was added, but I cannot find that in my Base Feeder Configuration.

[numinix]

Actually to clarify about my s/w. I have never installed the Base Feeder before so it's a new install. I am using ZC v1.3.8a, and installed google base feeder 1.7.1 . I found on the first post in this thread that MPN was added, but I cannot find that in my Base Feeder Configuration.

MPN isn't an option, it is automatically included in the feed as it is a requirement by Google Base. Remember, viewing the feed in a browser is different than viewing the feed in an xml editor as in a browser only elements that are defined will show up. g:mpn is not a standard element, therefore the browser ignored this element.

See line 271 to 273 of v1.7.3a:

                  if ($products->fields['products_model'] != '') {
                    $content["mpn"] = '<g:mpn>' . $google_base->google_base_sanita($products->fields['products_model'], true) . '</g:mpn>';
                  } 

[blakdeth77]

Oh crummy. Thank you for clearing that up. I checked the specifics of my items online after your post, and figured out I'm the "bug" in the system. I was wanting to be able to have customers search by the mfr product number and I've been entering product models with the manufacturer name included in that cell. So when I look at the mfr model number on Base, it says "AEM21-XXX" instead of just "21-XXX". In my site there's a space between the mfr name and product model number that I entered in to the cell. And the space is displayed on my product listing. But google scrunches them together when it gets the data feed file.

Well I certainly appreciate you pointing out the issue for me, thank you and have a great day!