Google Base Feeder Support Thread [OLD]

[chadderuski]

Ver. 1.10.1
I converted my store to UTF8 using Dr. Byte's tool (available in the Software add-ons).

I notice that there seems to be an issue where parenthesis in the products name will cause that item to be skipped without a debug message.
This is easy to fix, but it would help if the debug output ONLY display skipped and problem items.

Was there a post on how to fix <br> <ul> and <li> not converting to a white space?

thanks,
cj

[chadderuski]

Also seems to HATE commas in the products name!

[chadderuski]

1.10.1

Okay, while ferreting out several issues concerning the above...

I pulled the code from 1.9.1 to deal with the <li> and <br> issues.

It also seems that the product_name has to be unique:

$products_query = "SELECT distinct(pd.products_name), p.products_id, p.products_model, pd.products_description, ...

Since this is done at the query level, any duplicated product_name will be skipped WITHOUT any kind of warning. Perhaps this was somewhere in the documentation and I missed it. So my above comments about commas and parenthesis are probably wrong.

I can understand why products_model should be unique, but why products_name?

feedback?
-cj

[thomaswhiteeagle]

has anyone used the magneticone google base feed module? (http://www.magneticone.com/store/Zen...Base.Data.Feed) wondering if it will work better than the current issues with this one.

[dkhoward]

Has anyone heard about updates to the Google Base Feeder to meet the requirements of the upcoming mandates from Google?

[mikebackhouse]

Great, thanks Delia.. my apologies, I wasnt aware the changes had already been implemented as I only got the email from google the other week

Thanks for your help! :)

[delia]

has anyone used the magneticone google base feed module? (http://www.magneticone.com/store/Zen...Base.Data.Feed) wondering if it will work better than the current issues with this one.

It does not work and they tell you to use this mod. Isn't that happy?

[delia]

1.10.1

Okay, while ferreting out several issues concerning the above...

I pulled the code from 1.9.1 to deal with the <li> and <br> issues.

It also seems that the product_name has to be unique:

$products_query = "SELECT distinct(pd.products_name), p.products_id, p.products_model, pd.products_description, ...

Since this is done at the query level, any duplicated product_name will be skipped WITHOUT any kind of warning. Perhaps this was somewhere in the documentation and I missed it. So my above comments about commas and parenthesis are probably wrong.

I can understand why products_model should be unique, but why products_name?

feedback?
-cj

That's dang good question as the cart I'm having problems with at the moment has duplicated product names. Looking at the google information- it does recommend you put the specific information about your products in the title. For instance, if you have 2 teddy bears and one is yellow and one is red, the product name should be red teddy bear and yellow teddy bear and not just teddy bear.

It does not say that duplicates will be rejected but I suspect they might be and that's why the mod is done that way.

I'm going to test that theory and see how far I get though it may not be the problem in the cart that I am now working on.

[delia]

That was not my problem on that cart but the answer remains, the author of the mod is under the impression that the product names should be unique. He may be right but I haven't found proof of that yet.

[delia]

Ive turned on Debug and get the following error message:

"Skipped due to user restrictions"

This is due to either an old version of the mod or a mix of incorrect files. If this happens to you, upload the latest version of the mod carefully - folder by folder if you need to.