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Information on Data Feeds

Submitted by sachiechan on Thu, 2008-03-13 12:03 in

Hi,

I am new to Price Tapestry.
I have just installed PT and have table skeletons in the database.

I am trying to understand how the datafeeds work with TP.

Is there a step-by-step tutorial on creating sample datafeeds and using them with TP?

cheers
Sachin

Submitted by support on Thu, 2008-03-13 12:28

Hello Sachin,

You need to obtain the datafeeds from an affiliate network that makes them available for their shops.

When you have got the datafeed, you FTP it to your website, into the /feeds/ directory, just like any other file that you would put on your website.

Then, Price Tapestry will automatically work out the format, and let you map the data in the feed to the things that are displayed, like Product Name, Description, Buy URL (your affiliate link) and Price.

Please see the following page for the instructions for doing this:

http://www.pricetapestry.com/node/133

If you want any more help please ask, or email me if you want - reply to your registration code or forum reg email to get me!

Cheers,
David.

Submitted by sachiechan on Thu, 2008-03-13 14:22

Thanks Dave,

I think I know what is wrong.
I hadn't populated some fields and thats why it wasn't registering feeds and importing products.
I seem to have got it working now.
I think I'm gonna have to customize it quite a bit.
So I'll be in touch soon :)

cheers for your help

Sachin