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Upcoming changes in Google feed requirements
Posted: Fri Apr 15, 2011 8:43 am
by eileen
I just received an email notice from Google that after May 3, 2011 their feeds will require 2 of 3 of the following: Brand, MPN (Manufacturer part #), and GTIN (Global Train ID #, e.g., UPC or EAN). The product record in AC7 already supports Brand & MPN fields but does not support a GTIN field. Amazon is moving in the same direction.
Does AbleCommerce plan to add a GTIN field and revise the Google feed to include it? We are in the process of upgrading our store from Able5 to Able7. I am aware we can customize the fields and feeds. I'm just wondering if we have to, or if AbleCommerce plans to do this.
Google feed announcement 110403.pdf
Re: Upcoming changes in Google feed requirements
Posted: Sun May 01, 2011 9:50 am
by DelectablyYoursDecor
I have seen this question posted a couple of time yet no answer. I have sent the same question in on a service ticket and have not gotten an answer. Can someone please let us know if AbleCommerce will be supporting the new Google feed requirements? If not, does anyone have a custom feed mod that will fulfill the requirements?
Thank you very much for your assistance.
Re: Upcoming changes in Google feed requirements
Posted: Thu May 26, 2011 11:52 am
by aaron8340
Hi, I am also scrambling for an answer to this. My business has seen a marked decrease in sales for this month because of the changes in the feed requirements. Able please advise as to where we would place the UPC within the system.
Re: Upcoming changes in Google feed requirements
Posted: Fri May 27, 2011 5:24 am
by jmestep
Mazhar had said that the datafeed outputs the sku in the UPC field, but that hasn't worked for me. It could be that it does it only if the sku is numeric, so you would have to put the UPC into the sku field to verify.
Web2Market has a custom Googlebase feed plugin that gives you more versatility as far as what data to output into what GB field. You can even select a template field called "UPC" and it will pick up the UPC from there.
If you are interested, you can contact Web2Market- I don't know what the pricing is.
Re: Upcoming changes in Google feed requirements
Posted: Sun May 29, 2011 8:42 am
by jmestep
Web2Market has put this feed on our site for purchase now.
viewtopic.php?f=25&t=15356
Re: Upcoming changes in Google feed requirements
Posted: Tue Jul 12, 2011 4:21 pm
by abhs
hi,
We need this for a purpose where we can include Sales Tax within the Google Base feed, is it possible to do so in this plug-in ? any other way of doing so.
regards,
Abhi
Re: Upcoming changes in Google feed requirements
Posted: Wed Jul 13, 2011 4:11 am
by mikek
Hello,
You can manually modify the Google Feed Format in all 7.0.x versions, no additional modules or upgrades required. For detailed information
please refer to:
http://resources.drundo.com/post/custom ... merce.aspx
Re: Upcoming changes in Google feed requirements
Posted: Wed Sep 07, 2011 10:19 am
by foodsleuth
I tried the file feed as shown on the above page and it seems we get a server error on line 154:
Exception information:
Exception type: HttpCompileException
Exception message: c:\inetpub\wwwroot\store.gourmetsleuth.com\App_Code\GoogleBaseCustom.cs(154): error CS1056: Unexpected character '®'
Any suggestions?
Thanks
Re: Upcoming changes in Google feed requirements
Posted: Tue Sep 13, 2011 2:44 pm
by dgoranov
It seems that the code posted on our resource site got changed by the html editor code plugin. Below is the correct RemoveHtmlTags() method code.
Code: Select all
private string RemoveHtmlTags(string text)
{
var notags = Regex.Replace(text, "<(.|\n)*?>", String.Empty);
var sb = new StringBuilder(notags);
var replaceItems = new[] { """, " " , "®"};
foreach (var replace in replaceItems)
{
sb.Replace(replace, String.Empty);
}
return sb.ToString();
}
Re: Upcoming changes in Google feed requirements
Posted: Tue Sep 20, 2011 7:31 am
by foodsleuth
Thanks very much; I'll give that a try today!
Barb
Re: Upcoming changes in Google feed requirements
Posted: Wed Sep 21, 2011 10:46 am
by foodsleuth
Hi, looks like we have a new error now:
Exception information:
Exception type: HttpCompileException
Exception message: c:\inetpub\wwwroot\store.gourmetsleuth.com\App_Code\GoogleBaseCustom.cs(99): error CS0246: The type or namespace name 'var' could not be found (are you missing a using directive or an assembly reference?)
Thoughts?