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Submitted by rolli1 on Fri, 2008-02-08 19:59 in

Hi David,
as a service for my customers I want to write reviews for the products. Such thing as a description or my own experience with it. Is it possible to automate this? I thought of writing a review for a kind of products and post it to them all, so that if the customers click on reviews they will find something, and of course also the SEs.

Regards

roland

Submitted by support on Sat, 2008-02-09 19:00

Hi Roland,

If you intend to start writing the reviews from scratch, it is probably just as easy to use the customer review form and just moderate your own entries afterwards.

However, if you have a database of review content that can be mapped easily (i.e. by product name) to the products in your database then I can help you write a script to import them automatically...

Cheers,
David.

Submitted by rolli1 on Tue, 2008-02-12 17:37

Hi DAvid,
yes that is what I want: automatically import reviews. If it is not too ,uch work for you, please write such a script.

Regards and best wishes

ROland

Submitted by support on Tue, 2008-02-12 17:42

Hi Roland,

What format is the data in? The best thing would be in a text file, with TAB separated fields (you can export from Excel like this).

Can you post a couple of sample lines?

Cheers,
David.

Submitted by rolli1 on Thu, 2008-02-14 22:00

Hi David,

I do not have a sample file but I think also a text file would be the best.
I try a sample:

product ( $q ) description( from datafeed ) (and some kind of) personal experience

Regards

Roland

Submitted by support on Fri, 2008-02-15 09:51

Hi Roland,

You wouldn't need to have the description in your file to import; just product name and your review would suffice. Can you create a file like this:

Product 1|This is my first review for product 1
Product 1|This is my second review for product 1
Product 2|Here is another product and this is my first review
Product 2|Yet another review for the second product
Product 2|Lots of content here is a third review

This uses Pipe "|" to separate the fields, which you should be able to do with Excel if that is how your review data is stored at present...

Cheers,
David.

Submitted by rolli1 on Fri, 2008-02-22 20:34

Hi David,

I am seriously sick and can not always answer you. So please excuse the delay.

Of course I can create such a file, but the product 1, product 2 and so on should be similar as the $q in the PT code. Do you thin kthis is manageable?

Regards
ROland

Submitted by support on Fri, 2008-02-22 20:43

Hello Roland,

I am sorry to hear that you are sick, my thoughts are with you and I hope everything goes OK for you.

I will pick this up by email - please check your inbox, I can make time to work on this for you this weekend.

Take care,
David.