Google Base Feed Won't Generate File

bikeman91350 · Post by **bikeman91350** » Fri Aug 29, 2008 3:19 pm

I am using AC7 with Revision 1.

I have setup Google Base feed, but it doesn't work. I get the following error message:

Specify GoogleBase Feed Configuration Options Below.

FAILED

* Feed File Generated.
* An Error has occured while uploading.
* The requested name is valid, but no data of the requested type was found

There is no file generated in Admin/Marketing/Feeds/Data/. The permissions are set correctly.

Any ideas?

Thank you.

jmestep · Post by **jmestep** » Fri Aug 29, 2008 4:18 pm

Have you tried it with just the basics- no zip and no uploading?

bikeman91350 · Post by **bikeman91350** » Fri Aug 29, 2008 4:45 pm

Yes, I have tried that with the same result.

bikeman91350 · Post by **bikeman91350** » Fri Aug 29, 2008 4:48 pm

I get the message when I select to not upload

Specify GoogleBase Feed Configuration Options Below.

SUCCESS

* Feed File Generated.
* Feed File Compressed.

However, the data folder is empty.

jmestep · Post by **jmestep** » Fri Aug 29, 2008 6:03 pm

The only thing I can think of is try one of the other feeds, double check your permissions and your configuration for what products you want to show.

Post by **sohaib** » Mon Sep 01, 2008 9:08 pm

SUCCESS

* Feed File Generated.
* Feed File Compressed.

If it says feed file is generated then it must have been generated. The problem could be that it may not be placing the file in the expected folder, which would be quite strange. In case there was an error and file was not generated it would not have reported success.... so I suspect something might be amiss with paths

bikeman91350 · Post by **bikeman91350** » Tue Sep 02, 2008 12:42 am

Thanks to all of you who answered.
My tech guy found the glitch (of my making by the way) and we have it working.

Thank you again.

John

aaronfrankel · Post by **aaronfrankel** » Fri Oct 03, 2008 3:39 pm

What was the glitch? I am getting the same error, but the file is in the folder.

pdeluca · Post by **pdeluca** » Fri Jan 02, 2009 2:37 pm

Maybe I'm missing something, but if the feed files are generated in Admin/Marketing/Feeds/Data, then what needs to be FTPed and why?

Tomgard · Post by **Tomgard** » Fri Jan 02, 2009 4:16 pm

My Google Feed has been working for 6+ months and all of ths sudden this last week it is failing. Google error reads - "We could not decompress your file." Retracing my steps since the last successful upload has given me no answers either.

Anyone else having any problems ?

mfreeze · Post by **mfreeze** » Tue Feb 17, 2009 1:53 pm

One of my clients is also getting the message:

FAILED

* Feed File Generated.
* An Error has occured while uploading.
* The requested name is valid, but no data of the requested type was found

The site is at AC7.0 SR2 and the data is in the folder. Any ideas what could be wrong?

aaronfrankel · Post by **aaronfrankel** » Tue Jun 02, 2009 9:08 am

I finally found the glitch after Google updated their tools and gave a detailed explanation. The robot.txt file is blocking Google, and any other spiders, from accessing the folder containing the data feed. You can fix that by adding the following code to the last line of your robot.txt file.

Code: Select all

Allow: /Admin/Marketing/Feeds/Data/

Now that Google is happily sucking up the data feed I have a new problem.

Google wrote:Outcome: Data feed upload failed. No items are live. help
Number of items processed: 12051
Number of inserted items: 0

Error Bad data Line #
The item is missing a required attribute. description 12642
The item is missing a required attribute. description 15697
The item is missing a required attribute. description 4993

and the error goes on the same 12051 times. Anyone know what is causing this?

AbleMods · Post by **AbleMods** » Tue Jun 02, 2009 9:22 am

I believe the product summary field must be populated to provide the feed description for each product delivered to Google.

aaronfrankel · Post by **aaronfrankel** » Tue Jun 02, 2009 9:40 am

Anyone know how and what to change to make the feed draw from the Description rather than the summary?

Post by **mazhar** » Tue Jun 02, 2009 10:12 am

You can write your custom feed provider, please read following topic
http://wiki.ablecommerce.com/index.php/ ... d_Provider

draneb · Post by **draneb** » Tue Jun 23, 2009 9:24 pm

Hi Mazhar,

Does the link above work with 7.0.3?

I had a custom feed built for 7.0 and it worked but I have upgraded to 7.0.3 and it doesn't work anymore.

I tried the standard GoogleBase feed builder in 7.0.3 and Google rejected the feed because they said

1) there were no descriptions (from what I read above it still pulls from summary instead of description)
2) there were no product weights (weight field not included in feed builder)
3) the UPC numbers were incorrect (from what I see the ProductID is populated in this field)

Is anyone successfully listing products in Google Base with 7.0.3?

AbleCommerce Shopping Cart Software

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