Google Base Feeder Support Thread [OLD]

[PinkLeopard]

Hi Bridgett,

Solved !

My server couldn't take the long list of the products.
That's why I got those errors.
So I broke it into small portions and created them ony by one turning off some categories.
Then I combined all in one manually later.

I uploaded it and it worked good.

Thank you million, Bridgett standing by me trying to help me out.
That means a lot.

Paul

Excellent Paul.

We both learned!

[PinkLeopard]

Does the base feeder add all of your producst to the RSS feed or can you exclude some? My computers are not for sale, but TVs are for sale.

Thank you

Under Configuration/Google Base Feeder Configuration

Scroll down to excluded categories. Edit and put in the categories you want to exclude. TVs, for example in your case. Then Create under tools and Upload.

Hope that helps.

[PinkLeopard]

Problem resolved. It had to do with the templates directory. I did not rename Your_Template to match the template that I was currently using. Therefore, the file wouldn't read. So, when it finally clicked in my brain and I rename Your_Template to my template file, all was well in google merchant world.

On another note:

Google base product feed doesn't upload all my products. It stops at 4700 doesn't go pass 5000. Any comments or ideas on a fix would be greatly appreciated. Thanks everyone for all of your help!

Wonderful!

Second issue, make sure your Titles are NOT CAPS. Google rejects them. Any description with dimensions need to changed. For example, 24" x 24". It's in #1902 of THIS thread.

Hope that helps.

[PinkLeopard]

So I guess that means you can exclude categories. One more question, can you use this mod to upload to Google and to Bing?

This addon is for Google Base ONLY. Not sure how Bing works.

Follow the directions and if you run into any problems post them here.

Hope that helps

Bridgett

[taogem]

Hey jump right in!

It's there.

Config/Google Base Feeder Configuration

Mine is about 4 lines down and says Debug. Set it to true.

Hope that helps.

Bridgett

What if it is not there ? Is it something that can be added ?

[taogem]

First, did you chmod the feed folder to 777?




Bridgett.

Which feed folder should be set to the 777 ?

[countrycharm]

What if it is not there ? Is it something that can be added ?

Try putting this code in at admin/tools/install sql patches

SET @configuration_group_id=0;
SELECT @configuration_group_id:=configuration_group_id
FROM configuration_group
WHERE configuration_group_title= 'Google Base Feeder Configuration'
LIMIT 1;
INSERT INTO configuration (configuration_id, configuration_title, configuration_key, configuration_value, configuration_description, configuration_group_id, sort_order, date_added, use_function, set_function) VALUES
(NULL, 'Debug', 'GOOGLE_BASE_DEBUG', 'false', 'Turn on simple debug?', @configuration_group_id, 0, NOW(), NULL, 'zen_cfg_select_option(array(\'true\', \'false\'),'); 

[countrycharm]

Which feed folder should be set to the 777 ?

You shouldn't have but one on your server root. Set it and all the content inside to 777

[PinkLeopard]

Which feed folder should be set to the 777 ?

By chance did you upload ALL the files & folders?

feed is a folder and it needs to be chmod to 777

Go back and check the files you uploaded. It sounds like you missed some.

Hope that helps

Bridgett

[taogem]

Bridget,

Your tops girl...

Yes, I am sure all files are uploaded ..

Sure enough the feed folder was not set to 777 though.

Also added the Debug php you provided.

I stumbled in here looking for some ideas on why my products are not showing up within Google Products.

Everything gets uploaded just fine. All products show "active and searchable". Just not actually showing up within Google Products.

Maybe..., just maybe the feed folder setting was the problem.

I uploaded to products Google again..

Crossing my fingers !