Windows Live Product Search Contribution Support Thread

[aPurpleMonkey.com]

Tried this...still no luck.

Get the following error from live...

Upload file type: Product Search XML (.xml)

Upload error!
HTTP error, 404 occurred.

Changed the feed type to be uploaded via browser.
File exists and appears to be uploaded by the amount of time it takes (it's only 300k or so).

Any other ideas?

[numinix]

Tried this...still no luck.

Get the following error from live...

Upload file type: Product Search XML (.xml)
 
Upload error!
HTTP error, 404 occurred.

Changed the feed type to be uploaded via browser.
File exists and appears to be uploaded by the amount of time it takes (it's only 300k or so).

Any other ideas?

I meant upload manually using a client FTP program.

Also, Live will show the feed as processing or rejected almost immediately after upload.

[aPurpleMonkey.com]

My bad.....

That worked.

Thanks a million for the help.

[onlyrey]

Hi,

Used the module, works excellently; however, Live products generated a "warning" message: "MerchantCategory removed: Does not conform to the correct format." I suspect that it is because a slash "/" character in my category description (category and sub-category shown here): " Friendship / Encouragement | General". This is from live product's help:

I guess since MerchantCategory is optional, the reader just took it off from those products.
I should be able to fix it right now by changing the "/" for a "&" or "-".

MerchantCategory

Type: Optional


Description: The category and sub-categories that the product for sale belongs to.

Field name (.txt catalog files): MerchantCategory

Field tag (.xml catalog files): <MerchantCategory>

Corresponding Goggle Base field name: none

Character limit: 256

Allowed characters:

* 0-9, a-z, A-Z
* Space
* Ampersand (&)
* Apostrophe (')
* Dash (-)
* Underscore (_)
* Separate multiple categories with a pipe (|)

Thanks very much for the module

[numinix]

The next release will have a feature allowing you to set the merchant category by the top level only or include all sub-categories.

It's not important because there is no browse feature on Live and at the moment I think Live isn't ready for use without <OfferID> or some similar attribute to distinguish the products uniquely each time the feed file is updated. I currently have my cron job set to daily and each time it uploads it goes back into processing and none of the products are live. With Google Base, the products stay live and all updates to the products are in processing mode. This is a major advantage of Google Base. I suggest everyone turn their cron jobs off for Live until <OfferID> is implemented as I have requested to them.