Hello David,
I have a problem with datafeeds provided by affiliate merchants in the sense that their product title is way too long and also encounters when redirect to merchant site, their product title is shorter in thier website.
In order to edit it, we can open the raw data in .txt format and manually delete those unwanted words. However, if there are thousands of feeds from each merchant, it is going to take a long time to edit. Any suggestion?
Also wanted to ask if the product description comes in the feed has html coding such as or , will it pick up the code when we import to our site. Reason is most of the feeds group the entire description into one paragraph. If the description comes with the html coding, will it separate the or for us. Simply because it display better.
thanks
jack
Hello Jack,
Regarding word removal, don't forget that you could always use a series of Search and Replace filters on the product name field during import. Alternatively, Product Mapping could be used to replace the long names in the feed with shorter names.
Regarding HTML in the description, it is stripped by the import process but it is straight forward to disable this. The HTML is removed by the following code on line 163 of includes/admin.php:
$record[$admin_importFeed["field_description"]] = strip_tags($record[$admin_importFeed["field_description"]]);...simply comment out or delete that line to permit HTML in the description.
Hope this helps!
Cheers,
David.