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.

[batteryman]

Hello Numinix,

This is totally unrelated but the microsoft graphic is really skewed in my admin because the image size outputed is 110 x 48 px and the image size is larger than that. So I found a new image and made it to the size required. i hope this was fine anyhow I am submitting it to you if you would like to use it.

as well a google image but I will post it in the google thread

avel

[numinix]

You are officially the new image processor for my mods. Thank you.

Do any of the other images need resizing?

[BlessIsaacola]

Send me your feed file to webmaster AT numinix DOT com

If your feed has all of the required attributes, try sending it again. It will normally be instantly rejected if there is an error.

I had this error when <OfferCollection> was not included in the feed file, but this was added in v1.0.1 and shouldn't be an issue anymore.

Did you get the file I emailed you? I am still unable to upload my file. Thanks!

[numinix]

The following is taken from the Live Product Upload help file concerning the missing images:

Product images don't display correctly

Images of your products may not display correctly on Live Product Search after you successfully register with Windows Live Product Upload Beta and publish a catalog. This problem may occur if you or your Internet service provider use a robots.txt file to block robots from crawling your website. This blocks the MSNBOT user-agent from crawling the directory that contains the images of your products.

To allow the MSNBOT user-agent to crawl your website, add the following lines of text to the end of your robots.txt file:

User-agent: msnbotDisallow:

[numinix]

Did you get the file I emailed you? I am still unable to upload my file. Thanks!

Send it again [email protected]