Google Base Feeder Support Thread [OLD]

[numinix]

If you run the SQL script it wil simply overwrite all of your stored configurations which isn't that big of a deal.

If no SQL upgrade is required since the last release, I normally remove the update files. But, perhaps I will include them all in the next release which HOPEFULLY will not happen for some time. However, I did notice one problem:

WARNING when uninstalling your copy of the Google Base Feeder, do NOT run these two lines in your uninstall.sql unless you want to completely remove the stored UPC and ISBN information from your database:

ALTER TABLE products DROP COLUMN products_upc;
ALTER TABLE products DROP COLUMN products_isbn; 

The uninstall.sql should look like this:

SET @configuration_group_id=0;
SELECT @configuration_group_id:=configuration_group_id
FROM configuration_group
WHERE configuration_group_title= 'Google Froogle Configuration'
LIMIT 1;
DELETE FROM configuration WHERE configuration_group_id = @configuration_group_id;
DELETE FROM configuration_group WHERE configuration_group_id = @configuration_group_id; 

I will remove this in the next release and make a note to only use these if you want to completely remove the GBF and never use it again. In most cases people are just uninstalling to reinstall and having to reinput all of the UPC information can be very tiresome.

[Mr_B]

Using the 1.4.6 version with no problem at all. Install went as smooth as glass. Simply installed this version over my original 1.? version.

I had no problem with this upgrade just left out the shipping because its so darned confusing. Google made this part of their feed very difficult to set-up, and in my opinion very useless. Most of the sites that I have been on spell out their shipping better than you could on the Google site.

One other thing - if you previously had a feed set-up make sure you use that in your configuration or if you are going to do a new one delete the old.

Just an opinion.

[numinix]

Using the 1.4.6 version with no problem at all. Install went as smooth as glass. Simply installed this version over my original 1.? version.

I had no problem with this upgrade just left out the shipping because its so darned confusing. Google made this part of their feed very difficult to set-up, and in my opinion very useless. Most of the sites that I have been on spell out their shipping better than you could on the Google site.

One other thing - if you previously had a feed set-up make sure you use that in your configuration or if you are going to do a new one delete the old.

Just an opinion.

Versions 1.4.3 to 1.4.7 will only work if you have the Canada Post Module installed. 1.4.8 has removed these and I believe I removed the shipping options in an older release. Did it somehow creep back into my SQL file?

[Woodymon]

This may have been posted previously but worth repeating...

If having troubles uploading, submitting your bulk upload be sure to visit
http://groups.google.com/group/base-...2d25947786ee96

For instance a recent post to the above thread:

SYSTEM ALERT: 6:00 PM: Our bulk upload processing system will be undergoing a scheduled maintenance for the next two days (7/16 to 7/18). During this time, bulk uploads submitted through the Google Base web interface or via FTP will not be processing. We'll update
this thread once the scheduled maintenance has been completed.

[numinix]

Thank you Woodymon. Google was down for accepting bulk uploads during those dates. It's possibly due to a bug that I reported to them in which the price was not displaying in base.google.com but was displaying in google.com/products. The bug has been fixed and now they are accepting bulk uploads again.

[Woodymon]

Yes my latest upload was accepted, reviewed and published within an hour. And I'm not (yet) including all of the required attributes or substitute item type, optional or custom attributes that GoogleBase says they require.

[numinix]

Yes my latest upload was accepted, reviewed and published within an hour. And I'm not (yet) including all of the required attributes or substitute item type, optional or custom attributes that GoogleBase says they require.

Yes, although Google says they require the UPC attribute, they do not seem to enforce it yet. I did the Zen Cart community a favour and added this feature in advance and also modified a couple of contributions to make adding the information a lot easier. I hope it is appreciated :)

[chalfontgifts]

I have a problem.

If I change the name of the file that is produced in the configuration, it still seems to produce the file name frooglefeed.txt and not the new file name.

I want to use the name froogleupload.txt

Regards
Laurie

I am using the latest version.

[Woodymon]

I did the Zen Cart community a favour and added this feature in advance and also modified a couple of contributions to make adding the information a lot easier. I hope it is appreciated :)

I'm still using Andrew's latest version ;-)

I sure hope Andrew returns to the Zen Cart mod development!

[numinix]

That shouldn't be possible since his version doesn't support the product_type...?