Google Base Feeder Support Thread [OLD]

[khopek]

I had this same problem and it's because Google doesn't like special characters. The descriptions in my products, when I used Easy Populate kept adding something like Acirc; in it. I had to manually remove all of them using the find & replace in my text editor.

[guitarslinger]

Yes - have been using Easy Pop today.

Let me have a look

[guitarslinger]

Hmm....I looked in my upload sheet for EZ Populate.

One of the items that had an error had the following symbol in the HTML ' rather than a ' .

Having said that, the xml feed generated is displaying an ' as it should.

This is not in the feed description column either. Rather description4. So still doesn't seem to tally to what gBase is telling me.

[khopek]

What happens if you remove the hyphen from the description field that reads 'Rich Tone Music Ltd - Online Guitar Store'? I believe the general rule is alphanumeric only in Title and Description. Perhaps Google is counting '-' as a prohibited word...

Or perhaps they are counting that whole sentence as promotional text. Which is also not allowed because the description is supposed to describe the specific product...

[guitarslinger]

Sorry - i meant to type

'

which was generating an '.

[guitarslinger]

Sorry - i meant to type

& # 39 ; with no spaces ;0)

which was generating an '.

[guitarslinger]

What happens if you remove the hyphen from the description field that reads 'Rich Tone Music Ltd - Online Guitar Store'? I believe the general rule is alphanumeric only in Title and Description. Perhaps Google is counting '-' as a prohibited word...

Will try. Although I have 980 other listings all working with the exact same entry.

[khopek]

If that's in the the same product feed, Google only gives you a sample of products with the 'errors'. Mine said 8 errors, but in fact it was like 200+.

[iwantone]

I have followed the install and everything appeared to be going ok. Installed the sql patches with no problems.

Install instruction 5. Go to Admin->Configuration->Google Base Configuration and setup all parameters;

The google base configuaration does not appear in the admin>configuration section.

I have the goggle base feeder under tools, but just can't get the config section to appear.

I had also renamed my admin folder as suggested by the zen security updates a while ago, so uploaded the files to the new folder name and not the default admin. Can this be the problem, or any ideas why i can't get the config option to display in my zen admin

[iwantone]

I sorted the orginal problem with not seeing the config section. I had missed the php file in the root.

I do have another problem though.
When i try to create the feed i just get a blank page.
When i look at the feed folder there are no files apart from the index file.
I have checked that the feed folder is set to 777.

I am not getting an actual error message, but the feed is not getting created