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Drop Record RegExp

Submitted by Paul1107 on Sat, 2010-11-13 10:22 in

Hi David,

Can't understand why this isn't working and tried take instruction from various previous posts?

I've Got quite a big feed from a dept store, they've lots of categories, and I only need to keep 20 or so from the 200+ categories.

I thought I should using Drop Record RegExp and entering multiple categories I wish to drop like so Category1|Category2|Category3|....

But whilst the feed has imported, there are NO categories showing at all, despite there be 31K+ products showing in /admin/?

Any thoughts on what I've done here?

Regards

Paul

Submitted by support on Mon, 2010-11-15 09:02

Hi Paul,

To exlude most categories, you'd need Drop Record If Not RegExp, and the format is almost correct but don't forget to enclose it within brackets, e.g.

(Category 1|Category 2|Category 3)

Cheers,
David.
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Submitted by Paul1107 on Mon, 2010-11-15 11:10

Ah! "()" that's what's missing...

Cheers David!

Just a quickie - is there a way to register a feed but not display it in the result until I thought it worked properly (fusepump feed which is in beta at the moment)

Submitted by support on Mon, 2010-11-15 11:32

Hi Paul,

Not easily i'm afraid but don't forget you can use Trial Import which will just load 10 products whilst you check everything's working...

Another option would be to create a staging installation where you get everything working and, then it should be a quite job to register / copy filters into your master installation once you've worked everything out...

Cheers,
David.
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Submitted by Paul1107 on Mon, 2010-11-15 12:51

OK David Thanks...