Google Base Feeder Support Thread [OLD]

[hypercoyote]

True enough..

BTW.. Thanks for sharing your code.. Gonna update the client site tonight..

Hey, do me a favor. When you update your code, generate a feed and send it to google. I think that's the only change I made between now and my last successful feed upload, but all my items now receive an error that the quantity must be greater than 0 and two items say they have invalid words in the title. Not really sure why spaces would cause all those problems.....but it's late, so I'll look into it more tomorrow.

[hypercoyote]

Hey, do me a favor. When you update your code, generate a feed and send it to google. I think that's the only change I made between now and my last successful feed upload, but all my items now receive an error that the quantity must be greater than 0 and two items say they have invalid words in the title. Not really sure why spaces would cause all those problems.....but it's late, so I'll look into it more tomorrow.

What the heck. Okay, took out the change, still getting those errors. Did Google change something? I've even set in the GB config the default quantity is 1 for items with 0 and to not include items with quantity of zero. Checking the XML file, it's not even including a quantity attribute at all. What gives?

[hypercoyote]

Okay, new problem. How do you get Google to use your calculated USPS and UPS shipping rates? The only options I see for shipping methods are:

zones table rate
flat rate
per item
per weight unit
table rate
zones
percategory
free shipping
free rules shipping

Of which I use none of those. Is it a PHP edit and if so, where at?

[hypercoyote]

Okay, new problem. How do you get Google to use your calculated USPS and UPS shipping rates? The only options I see for shipping methods are:

zones table rate
flat rate
per item
per weight unit
table rate
zones
percategory
free shipping
free rules shipping

Of which I use none of those. Is it a PHP edit and if so, where at?

Okay, scratch half of that. I have google base feeder set to None for the shipping rates, which means it should pull my shipping settings from Google's site itself, where I have setup 3 services. However, still nothing shows up for shipping when I go through the checkout process via google's site.

[merrydown]

Weirdly the  (weird A) fix didn't work for me:

THAT WORKED! Many thanks... just wish I knew that before I changed about 50 products manually. Spent many hours on this. Thanks thanks thanks!

I had to add the ultra low tech:

$str = eregi_replace("Â", "", $str);

line below it to correct the problem. I don't get why it isn't caught in the line :

$str = eregi_replace("[^[:alnum:][:space:].,!()'-_/+=?ÀÂÄßÈÉÊËÎÏÔÖÙÛÜàâäèéêëîïôöùûüÿÇç«»]", "", $str);

Which already exists in the code as the character is obviously in the list, but it doesn't work, so that's that...

Cheers all contributors for this thread for the leads that have helped me fix my problems so far!

[dkhoward]

I just noticed that Google is asking for a new field in the Base Feed. This field should indicate items that are on-line only items versus those that are available in a storefront. Has their been an update to the code for this? If not, will one be forthcoming?

Thanks

[hypercoyote]

I just noticed that Google is asking for a new field in the Base Feed. This field should indicate items that are on-line only items versus those that are available in a storefront. Has their been an update to the code for this? If not, will one be forthcoming?

Thanks

Does it result in a fatal error, as in, your items are rejected or is it just a warning?

[hypercoyote]

Okay, new issue which just randomly happened all of a sudden. Before, when I copied an item it also copied the Auction Site Attributes as well, weight type, measurements, category, etc etc. Well, all of a sudden it is no longer copying those attributes and I can't figure out why or what changed to do this. Literally the only thing I can think of is that I changed the item_max from 1 to 0 in the product add page. I don't know how that would make this happen.

[hypercoyote]

In addition, when I make a copy, it always sets the l/w/h to 12/12/12, the weight type to lb and the dim type to cm. I have no idea where it's getting these values anyway...

[Fez-o Joe]

OK - just scanned 189 pages and didn't see it... so:

We are using 'non-standard' category headings since our store is rather non-standard in itself... and now I see it's coming back to bite us in the XML under 'product_type'.

Rather than:
"Clothing & Accessories > Clothing Accessories > Hats"
we have:
"Current styles" or "Limited Editions" or "Fez-o-Shirts"

and that's carrying over to the XML - but I'd like to be able to follow some guidelines *smirk* and for the hats, make it say the google category... shirts, etc.

Is this something that I should just hard code in the sanitizer area, or in the product area? or?

Can any maven sport the code? (since I'm still a novice) If I know where to put it, and what it looks like, I can make changes/additions from there.

Thanks!