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Google Base Feed Won't Generate File
Posted: Fri Aug 29, 2008 3:19 pm
by bikeman91350
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.
Re: Google Base Feed Won't Generate File
Posted: Fri Aug 29, 2008 4:18 pm
by jmestep
Have you tried it with just the basics- no zip and no uploading?
Re: Google Base Feed Won't Generate File
Posted: Fri Aug 29, 2008 4:45 pm
by bikeman91350
Yes, I have tried that with the same result.
Re: Google Base Feed Won't Generate File
Posted: Fri Aug 29, 2008 4:48 pm
by bikeman91350
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.
Re: Google Base Feed Won't Generate File
Posted: Fri Aug 29, 2008 6:03 pm
by jmestep
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.
Re: Google Base Feed Won't Generate File
Posted: Mon Sep 01, 2008 9:08 pm
by sohaib
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
Re: Google Base Feed Won't Generate File
Posted: Tue Sep 02, 2008 12:42 am
by bikeman91350
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
Re: Google Base Feed Won't Generate File
Posted: Fri Oct 03, 2008 3:39 pm
by aaronfrankel
What was the glitch? I am getting the same error, but the file is in the folder.
Re: Google Base Feed Won't Generate File
Posted: Fri Jan 02, 2009 2:37 pm
by pdeluca
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?
Re: Google Base Feed Won't Generate File
Posted: Fri Jan 02, 2009 4:16 pm
by Tomgard
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 ?
Re: Google Base Feed Won't Generate File
Posted: Tue Feb 17, 2009 1:53 pm
by mfreeze
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?
Re: Google Base Feed Won't Generate File
Posted: Tue Jun 02, 2009 9:08 am
by aaronfrankel
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?
Re: Google Base Feed Won't Generate File
Posted: Tue Jun 02, 2009 9:22 am
by AbleMods
I believe the product summary field must be populated to provide the feed description for each product delivered to Google.
Re: Google Base Feed Won't Generate File
Posted: Tue Jun 02, 2009 9:40 am
by aaronfrankel
Anyone know how and what to change to make the feed draw from the Description rather than the summary?
Re: Google Base Feed Won't Generate File
Posted: Tue Jun 02, 2009 10:12 am
by mazhar
You can write your custom feed provider, please read following topic
http://wiki.ablecommerce.com/index.php/ ... d_Provider
Re: Google Base Feed Won't Generate File
Posted: Tue Jun 23, 2009 9:24 pm
by draneb
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?