Export to CSV, import to Google Shopping

hm, still won't let me. If you want it, I can send it to you via email.

After I used this .php file, it shut down my site.

nicolas wrote:

The mpn attribute is only added when the "add product code" option is turned on in the plugin so you should do that.
the brand attribute is only added when you have something in the "brand" input field of the plugin's options. I see that you had it filled in your screenshot. Did you empty it since then ?

The "google product category" option is not implemented at all in the plugin. That's because like for the other two parameters they are optional. It's strange that you get these errors.
For that last warning, the only way to remove it will be to add a line like this:
$xml.="\t".'<g:google_product_category>CATEGORY</g:google_product_category>'."\n";
where CATEGORY is the name of your category based on the explanations there (you need to choose between the list of possible categories on that page):
www.google.com/support/merchants/bin/ans...?answer=160081&hl=en

You can place that line of code just before the line:
$xml.="\t".'<g:shipping_weight>'.$product->product_weight.' '.$product->product_weight_unit.'</g:shipping_weight>'."\n";
in the file plugins/hikashop/google_product.php

Then, try to download again the xml and import it in google again. These error messages should not display anymore.

Im getting similar issues here. When i first submitted our test feed xml we were getting error reports on the mpn, catergory, and brand attributes. Ive followed the above advice and edited the googleproducts.php and have switched the 'add product code' option to 'on' but im still getting the error 'Missing recommended attribute: brand' when uploading to google. Ive tried leaving the brand field blank and ive tried filling it in and im still getting the same errors.
Ive attached my xml file if that helps.

I was just wondering if you could help clarify something for me. Is the brand field in my xml the same as the manufactures that ive defined in my hikashop products area? All my shop products have the their manufacture listed, i would have though this and the 'brand' field in the google product field are the same thing?

Thanks in advance for the help.

Sorry forgot to attach the xml

Ok, I fixed the code you mentioned, re-uploaded and my site is still live...yay.

I was also able to again successfully download the triggered .xml file from the plugin.

After uploading it, I received these errors now (2 down, 2 to go).

This value must be one of the values stated in the data feed instructions for attribute: condition (25 errors)

Missing recommended attribute: brand (25 warnings)
While items missing recommended attributes will process successfully, we recommend including relevant attributes if they are available.

I don't know about the brand you mentioned, but I don't see it as a problem anymore, perhaps that's fixed.

Ok, that worked.

"Nov 2, 2011 4:52 pm PDT - 25 of 25 items inserted "

But I still have an issue:

Item Warnings - 25 items with warnings 25 items affected25
Missing recommended attribute: brand (25 warnings)
While items missing recommended attributes will process successfully, we recommend including relevant attributes if they are available.
Examples: Examples:

Item ID Line Nr.
19 53 Show Item
37 98 Show Item
49 128 Show Item
67 173 Show Item
97 248 Show Item


ideas?

Ok, I have my Google Plugin set to update Frequency 3600, which, after reading up, is in seconds. So, this should update every hour then. I've added two more products and added descriptions for the rest, but these changes are not on google yet.

I checked my email address, it is correct.

But if you look earlier in this thread, I reported to your (with a screen shot) of the first time I saved it I got an error. You said it wasn't anything to worry about.

I saved it again, and didn't get an error, but I'm wondering about that first error I got and if that could be the culprit.

Correct, I have not received an email saying that my cron task has gone through.

I can access the cron url just fine:
www.therollerskate.com/index.php?option=com_hikashop&ctrl=cron

And I don't know about the rest. Can you look at my htaccess file and see if it is requiring a password?

htaccess zip attached

nicolas wrote:

That's just a warning and not a real error.
It will work like that even without a brand attribute in the xml file.
So the import of the xml file to google products is working. All that's left if you change your products often and want to update them on google products is to make sure that the automatic update of google products via the cron works.

Thats just the piece of info im looking for. Was worried that my feed wasnt working properly because of the errors. This is the 1st time ive used google product feed so i was a bit unsure.
Thanks for the help nicolas

I think it's all setup correctly, but how do you trigger the cron manually?

Screen shot of an error is attached (probably the same error I had earlier).

Username may have been off, I think I fixed it. But after I fixed the username, the error was still there.