Death of Froogle?

[kgeals]

Hi,

I am led to beleive that Froogle is now redundant - hence so is the functionality in Actinic. Is there any plan to create a patch available for v7 users for Google Base (its replacement)?

cheers in advance,

Kevin.
www.herbsscotland.co.uk

[Duncan Rounding]

Jan at Mole-End.biz has an add-in that does the new Googlebase feeds. See here:
http://www.mole-end.biz/acatalog/Googlebase.html

[kgeals]

Cheers Drounding - As a coder I should be able to knock something together quite quickly but I am lazy. If I get round to it I'll post/point to the code!

ta,


Kevin.
www.herbsscotland.co.uk

[pnagames]

Kevin

i still use my export from V7 without any problems (uploading to gbase)

[simonwar]

Just looked at Google Base , (for the first time), the FIELD format they want looks like:

link
title
description
image_link
id
expiration_date
lables


How do you export from V7 and obtain what these FIELD's, or ones I may custom specify, ask for.

Appreciate any help, Simon.

[jont]

Jan's utility should do this or you can open the export into Excel and manually edit the titles there .. I am all in favour of manual intervention at times.

[kgeals]

please see link I created to show you mine...

http://www.herbsscotland.co.uk/community/googlebase.xml

then view source

[Jan]

Hi Kevin,

That is output from my Googlebase Mash I believe, you need to change some of your settings to get that feed accepted by Google, these are the two items

<g:brand>Enter a generic brand or use Custom Vars</g:brand>

<groduct_type>See list at http://base.google.co.uk/base/product_types.html. Use a comma to use multiple product types</groduct_type>

Take a look at this article in our knowledge base for more detail on how to set these up correctly.

How to set up google options using user defined variables :

http://moleend.helpserve.com/index.p...kbarticleid=10

How to set up product type :

http://moleend.helpserve.com/index.p...kbarticleid=41

Regards,

[kgeals]

Ah good spot Jan - I missed those options. It did accept it fine and I think you can get off with the brand if you choose one of their options e.g products.

[pinbrook]

<g:brand>Enter a generic brand or use Custom Vars</g:brand>

is the brand a mandatory field?

can you leave it blank, what would you put in here if you only sold unbranded goods?

[Darren B]

Hi Jo

I put the company name of the site for unbranded goods