Google Base Feeder Support Thread [OLD]

[bumba000]

If you are getting a blank white popup when using this mod you are likely missing your includes/classes file. Not sure how I missed that but I checked and it had not been uploaded. It works now!

[chabbu]

Hi

Just installed the latest version on zen cart v1.3.7. Worked a treat, though a couple of issues once the feed was imported into Google Base mainly:

All products have been categorised using the product category in zen cart when i need them to be 'Book' - Can I change this somewhere?

Also, can I manually alter the xml file it creates? I can't seem to find it in the feeds folder!

Thanks

Faz

[numinix]

Hi

Just installed the latest version on zen cart v1.3.7. Worked a treat, though a couple of issues once the feed was imported into Google Base mainly:

All products have been categorised using the product category in zen cart when i need them to be 'Book' - Can I change this somewhere?

Also, can I manually alter the xml file it creates? I can't seem to find it in the feeds folder!

Thanks

Faz

If you install Auction Site Attributes, you can define a "Category" for each product.

[imaginarynumber]

Argh!!!!

I am such a prat.

Just updated and inserted the update.sql.

Resubmitted the feed and was getting some of the previous (recent) errors at google's end.

So my hangover and I decided to insert the googlefroogle.sql.

Given that this was a pretty daft thing to do it has now buggered up googlebase.

Ran the uninstall.sql and then the googlefroogle.sql.

Base still buggered- from what I read the uninstall.sql doesn't remove the previous typos so i will have to manually hack the db.

I accept that I should have known better but it might be a good idea to to mention in the documentation that if you are upgrading that you should ONLY insert the update.sql and not the googlefroogle.sql.

Thanks for a great module and your hard work.

Regards

[ShoesBuyOnline]

Hi, there

I have installed this add-on on my site. Now, I have 2 questions as below:
1.I have noticed that the developer's recommendation: Change the length of your product titles in your SQL database from 64 to 75-80. If this is 'configuration_group_title' field of table 'configuration_group' or inside other table?
2.When click 'view' link within 'NOTE: You may view Google Base FTP content.' inside 'tools->google base feeder' to view my ftp contents under my google base account. It always return an error saying 'Connection failed: uploads.google.com'. But, with the same settings on my local test site, all works ok. I hosted my site on bluehost.

Any help would be highly appreciated,

[imaginarynumber]

Most likely they weren't associated with a configuration_group_id which was a typo in one of the older versions. You'll have to manually remove the rows from the db using PHPMYADMIN.

If like me you fecked things up and cannot uninstall then it might be the case that you were using the old version (1.3.3)

download the file from here

http://www.zen-cart.com/index.php?ma...roducts_id=473

and then use the unistall.sql from there.

After that run the googlefroogle.sql from the new version- worked for me.

[ShoesBuyOnline]

Hi, there

I have installed this add-on on my site. Now, I have 2 questions as below:
1.I have noticed that the developer's recommendation: Change the length of your product titles in your SQL database from 64 to 75-80. If this is 'configuration_group_title' field of table 'configuration_group' or inside other table?
2.When click 'view' link within 'NOTE: You may view Google Base FTP content.' inside 'tools->google base feeder' to view my ftp contents under my google base account. It always return an error saying 'Connection failed: uploads.google.com'. But, with the same settings on my local test site, all works ok. I hosted my site on bluehost.

Any help would be highly appreciated,

Hi,

For my second question, I have resolved it by asking bluehost to open up the outbound ftp for me. (This service needs a dedicated IP)

Any suggestion on my first question would be highly appreciated.

Thanks,

[imaginarynumber]

Hi all

After finally getting things to work I discovered that I was getting "missing file attributes" and "invalid encoding" messages from google base.

It seems that google are much more fussy about html in the product descriptions than in the past.

I noticed that I had forgotten to use my <p> tags a few times- this was upsetting google but doesn't bother zen.

The easiest way to find the errors is to use firefox to navigate to the xml file (www.yourshop/feed/whatever_products.xml) and then right click and view source- this way you will get to see the line numbers, reference the line numbers with the errors highlighted by google

[numinix]

Hi all

After finally getting things to work I discovered that I was getting "missing file attributes" and "invalid encoding" messages from google base.

It seems that google are much more fussy about html in the product descriptions than in the past.

I noticed that I had forgotten to use my <p> tags a few times- this was upsetting google but doesn't bother zen.

The easiest way to find the errors is to use firefox to navigate to the xml file (www.yourshop/feed/whatever_products.xml) and then right click and view source- this way you will get to see the line numbers, reference the line numbers with the errors highlighted by google

If this is the case, everyone should be having their data entry employees check the XHTML validation of a product's web page after posting that product.

[numinix]

Hi, there

I have installed this add-on on my site. Now, I have 2 questions as below:
1.I have noticed that the developer's recommendation: Change the length of your product titles in your SQL database from 64 to 75-80. If this is 'configuration_group_title' field of table 'configuration_group' or inside other table?
2.When click 'view' link within 'NOTE: You may view Google Base FTP content.' inside 'tools->google base feeder' to view my ftp contents under my google base account. It always return an error saying 'Connection failed: uploads.google.com'. But, with the same settings on my local test site, all works ok. I hosted my site on bluehost.

Any help would be highly appreciated,

This would be the products name which is either located in the products table or the products_description table.