Affiliate Window "Create-a-Feed" system

Hello Arya,

Feeds generated by Create-a-feed work absolutely fine. On the first page, underneath "Choose By Merchants" click "select merchants" and check an individual merchant and then "save", then click "next" to get the feed URL.

To keep file size down, you could (on the second page) de-select all but the required fields (product_name, description, merchant_image_url, aw_deep_link, display_price, merchant_category, brand_name)

Having created the feed URL, I subsequently just change the merchant ID for other merchants rather than using the Create-a-feed page again - you can see the merchant ID displayed on most screens.

Hope this helps!

Cheers,
David.

Hi,

Thank you David.

Hello Arya,

I do have a patch that enables a single feed to include multiple merchants (you can register a field as the Merchant Name), but since you have been a Price Tapestry user for some time and may have modified files it's not as straight forward as simply unzipping the patch over the top of an existing installation (as it involves database changes also).

Perhaps if you could send me the following files from your installation i'll check what changes are in place, and perhaps merge the patch and provide a database modification script...

setup.sql
merchants.php
includes/admin.php
admin/feeds_register_step2.php

Cheers,
David.

Hello David,

I am also interested in importing a single feed containing multiple merchants, would you be able to provide me with the patch you mention above?

Also, well done for developing such a brilliant product.

Kind regards,

Nathan

Hello Nathan,

Thank you for your comments.

Certainly - i'll email you the patch. It is designed to be uploaded over a fresh installation before running setup.php. The following files are affected:

setup.sql
merchants.php
includes/admin.php
admin/feeds_register_step2.php

If you have already installed the script the quickest way to get started would be to drop the database and re-install after uploading the patch - but if that's not ideal let me know and I'll work out a db update script that would avoid the need to re-install. Likewise, if you've already modified any of the affected files and you're not sure how to merge the changes, reply to my email with your modified versions and I'll patch them for you...

Cheers,
David.

Hi David,

I've been trying to import a feed from Affiliate Window with multiple merchants. The problem is that Affiliate Window don't provide a node with the merchant name as internal text. The merchant name is added as a "name" attribute to the merchant node, so therefore the import parser ingnores this field. see the below sample xml from affiliate window:

{code saved}

Ideally, i would like to select the merchant name from the name attribute. Is this something that can be done?

Kind regards,

Nathan

Hello Nathan,

My apologies, I hadn't realised that was the case with the XML format.

However, if you change to CSV (and I recommend PIPE as the Field Delimiter) you will find the merchant name available in every record....

Cheers,
David.

Hi David,

CSV works perfectly, thanks very much for your help.

Cheers,

Nathan

Hello mate,

Would be awesome if you could email me the patch as well.

Cheers.

Hi SEOaddict,

Could you email me so that I can pick-up your normal email address and I'll reply with the patch as an attachment...

Cheers,
David.

Hey David,

I emailed you couple days ago, just checking to see if you got it.

Cheers mate.

Hi There,

Really sorry but I don't seem to have received anything. Can you try again (address on this page)...

Alternatively, if you want to post it into a reply to this thread I'll pick it up that way and then delete the post rather than publish it...

Cheers,
David.

No worries mate,

My email is: {link saved}

Thanks a lot man :)