Google Base Feeder Support Thread [OLD]

[Doodlebuckets]

I just upgraded and am excited about the weights being included in the feed, but they are not showing up. Anything I'm doing wrong. I did all the patches and uploaded all the files.

Thanks!

[numinix]

Doodlebuckets, did you turn it on in the configuration?

[Doodlebuckets]

Doodlebuckets, did you turn it on in the configuration?

Mais oui, but of course...

[numinix]

Then... Je ne sais pas...

I will have to take a look at the code and see sometime later. What does it put in your feed file? Does it have the XML tags fr the weight and then just empty content? Perhaps post the XML from a single product.

[paul3648]

Hi there,

I've been using this excellent module for a while and really appreciate your efforts on this.

After getting an email from Google about Irrelevant product types I installed 1.6.2.

Now my products are duplicated - two entries for most products, each with the same URL. There are a few products that only have one entry - but there doesn't seem to be a pattern to which products are duplicated.

I have the products linked, but I've configured Google Base Feeder to exclude the secondary categories.

I've tried all three setting for "Product Type" and always get the duplicated products.

Any ideas what's wrong?

[taf]

Hi,

Been using google base feeder and it's working for me, so many thanks to all who have contirbuted to this.(v1.6.2)

Just trying to do some optimization and i noticed a few things.

1. I cannot see the condition attribute in my XML.
2. The brand attribute is empty.

I've searched on the forum, read the readme and looked at the admin in zencart but i can't see anything obvious.

If anyone could help that would be great. :)

Also i noticed the payment_notes attribute thought it could be another usful one to add?

payment_notes
Additional instructions to explain a payment policy. If you are accepting Google Checkout on your website, you may include that information here.
Format:
Text.
Tab-delimited example:
Cash only for local orders.
XML example:
<gayment_notes>Cash only for local orders.</gayment_notes>

[taf]

Ok I figured out why the brand is missing, needed to fill in the manufactures field in each product.

Still haven't figured out the missing condition attribute yet?

[taf]

Apologies for all the posts. I've done a quick hack to fix my problem with the missing condition attribute. Would appreciate it if someone could let me know what i might be doing wrong for the attribute not to appear in the first place.

Hack is:
/*Comment out this line*/
/*$content["condition"] = (GOOGLE_BASE_ASA == 'true' ? ($products->fields['products_condition'] != '' ? '<g:condition>' . $products->fields['products_condition'] . '</g:condition>' : '<g:condition>' . GOOGLE_FROOGLE_CONDITION . '</g:condition>') : '');*/

/*Quick hack to get this working for now..*/
$content["condition"] = '<g:condition>' . 'new' . '</g:condition>';


file is googlefroogle.php

[numinix]

Try not to hard code things:

$content["condition"] = '<g:condition>' . GOOGLE_FROOGLE_CONDITION . '</g:condition>'; 

I may have made a mistake with my nested short form if statements...

Can you try this first before changing to the fix above?

if (GOOGLE_BASE_ASA == 'true') {
  if ($products->fields['products_condition'] != '') {
    $content['condition'] = '<g:condition>' . $products->fields['products_condition'] . '</g:condition>';
  }
} else {
  $content["condition"] = '<g:condition>' . GOOGLE_FROOGLE_CONDITION . '</g:condition>';
} 

[taf]

Sorry about the hard coding it was getting late and i just needed to get my bulk upload done before the morning.

Tried the new if statement and this seems to work for me.

I'm now looking at one other small issue i'm getting with the product_type when i'm setting the product type to top, bottom and full I don't see any difference in the output of the xml file.

I always see a comma separated listed of the top and then subsequent categories, I'm going to look into this some more.