Kelkoo - Product Comparison Feed?

[dtop]

Hi,

Does anyone use Kelkoo's Product Comparison feed?

I can't seem to find a way of getting the Actinic catalog data into the required format for the comparison feed and wondered if anyone else has had any sort of success - especially with the Category and Type field requirements.

I don't fancy building/maintaining the feed manually so any advice appreciated.

[dave_finlayson]

Shaun,

Are you using Access 2000? If so I can mail you my query which should (???) work with a little tweaking.

Dave

[dave_finlayson]

Shaun,

Now I think about it, is this the free feed you are talking about, if so my query will work. otherwise it wont!

Dave

[dtop]

Dave,

Thanks, but no, its not the free feed I'm talking about - that's working just fine with a manual tweak of the froogle export data

The Product Comparison feed requires specific category names and product type names applied to each item (something Actinic can't seem to accommodate at present). The data structure is so different from the basic free feed that I haven't been able to think-up a solution.

If I could add unlimited custom fields to each actinic product and export the data in any field order - that'd be a good solution, as I'm sure many user would agree !!

Thanks
Shaun

[dave_finlayson]

Shaun,

Dont know if this helps but I have managed to do something simliar by entering a customvar on each product with a main department name (in my case outdoor equipment and sports equipment). I then enter a more specific department in the Report description field (for instance Waterproofs) in each prouct which you could use as the product type.

Then, in my access query I simply combined the two as follows (where [nValue1] is the customvar id no and [sReportDescription] is whatever you have entered into Report Description in the product:-

category: IIf([nValue1]=3,"Outdoor Equipment > "+[Product].[sReportDescription],IIf([nValue1]=4,"Sports Equipment > "+[Product].[sReportDescription]))

This was a bit fiddly and took a while but once its done it's totally automatic. The example above was done for my Froogle feed so will need some tweaking I guess.

Dave