Hi
I am completely new to Price Tapestry and data feeds.
I have managed to import some test data feeds but have stumbled across a problem.
What I want to happen is for each product to have various merchants listed below so that the user can actually compare the price.
What I have found however, is that when I import a data feed, it imports the products, but each merchant has its own product page with only their price listed. My data feeds are imported as merchant specific.
As an example, the following 2 products are the same, but have different pages instead of displaying both prices on the one page.
1) http://www.example.com/products.php?q=Sony+Mhs+ts10s+Bloggie+Full+Hd+Camcorder+Silver+Silver
2) http://www.example.com/products.php?q=Mhs+ts10s+Bloggie+Full+Hd+Camcorder+Silver
I was just wondering if anyone could advise.
I hope this is not a stupid question, but it is something which I am completely new to0.
Any help appreciated.
Regards
Andrew
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Hi David
Many thanks for your fast response with this and price tapestry looks great!!
I will give the product mapping ago as per your detailed instructions and hopefully get this working.
Hopefully I won't have too many questions for you!
Cheers
Andrew
Hi David
I have tried as you suggested and it worked perfectly, the only trouble is however, is that I will have a good few hundred products that I would like to add to my website, and doing this for every product would be time consuming.
All my datafeeds have a UPC and was just wondering if their would be anyway of using this to identify products and map them this way?
I am not a coder, but can edit files and I do have access to my database via PHPmyadmin if that helps.
Any feedback on this would be appreciated.
Cheers.
Andrew
Hi Andrew,
Yes - where all feeds have a corresponding UPC (or EAN, ISBN, SKU etc.) this is possible. Over the
years this has become documented against various Price Tapestry versions and may be somewhat confusing if searching for mods relating to UPC etc. so if you could bear with me and first thing tomorrow I'll post a comprehensive "How To" for the latest distribution for grouping / comparison by unique product code rather than name and then link to it from the Useful Support Forum Threads Index...
Thanks!
David.
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Hi David
Many thanks for your prompt reply.
That would be absolutely brilliant, many thanks for this.
Your support is excellent by the way, and I am really impressed with Price Tapestry!
Keep up the good work and I will look forward to the how-to.
Cheers
Andrew
Hi Andrew,
Welcome to the forum and to Price Tapestry!
The scenario you describe is exactly what the Product Mapping feature is designed for!
Where merchants don't use the same name for the same products, this feature enables you to set a "master" product name under which you would like all the different merchant versions of the product name to be imported as. You can use exact matches or keyword matches as required; and in this case, you might want to start out using a keyword match of the model number.
Create a new Product Mapping (see link above) with your preferred name for this product as you wish it to appear on your site. Then, in the Alternatives box on the configuration page for that new mapping, start with just
Mhs Ts10s...and at the next import (product mappings are only applied at import time), any product name containing those keywords (at any position) within the original merchant's name for that product will be imported with your chosen master product name - and therefore all displayed on the same page where your site visitors will be able to view a genuine price comparison.
If you find that a keyword based mapping is too wide ranging - a common scenario is where accessories for a product also include the model number - then you can also use exact matches (prefixed by the = sign in the Alternatives box on the configuration page) - the helper tool let's you easily add keyword or exact match alternatives to a mapping.
For added keyword variety on your pages, the original merchant name for each mapped product is also imported and is the name used in the price comparison table.
Hope this helps!
Cheers,
David.
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