Remove Datafeed Without DeRegistering
Submitted by discountdriven on Mon, 2010-04-26 17:10.Price Tapestry
Hi David,
Is there a way to remove a datafeed from my site without deregistering it? I have a few merchants whose site goes down with no tracking every so often. Each time, I remove their entire feed and deregister it from my site. When their site starts tracking again, I have to reregister the feed and add all the filters back in again. Is there a way to get their products off my site and store name off my merchant page... yet somehow leave their filename and filters on my admin page so that all I need to do is save the feed back into my feeds file and then import?
Thanks,
Stacy
Hi Stacy,
Sure - all you would need to do is upload an empty text file in place of the merchant's feed that you want to temporarily disable (i.e. with exactly the same filename), and then click "Import". Since the first step of the import process is to delete all products for that merchant, the effect will be of removing that merchant from your site whilst preserving your registration, filters. etc.
When the merchant is working again, re-upload the good feed, and then Import again to re-instate the products.
Cheers,
David.