Feature Requests

Offer other methods to transfer/transmit a custom feed file. Namely:

* Save to path - being able to save/copy the file to a local or UNC path. This could be used to export the file to a locally hosted FTP server (so partners can download the feed if their system is setup to do an FTP pull).

* Email - Send the feed through email. Rather than prompting for SMTP credentials, it should allow to choose an existing nopC email account, being able to choose different accounts for each feed. Maybe have a generic message/email body (use nopC template system? - the way it handles the accounts is IMO a bit limited, so maybe not, or allow to override the template's email account, to avoid adding duplicating records just to override the account, which IMO is the main shortcoming of nopC template system).

* Post to URL - probably too involved for anything that isn't XML based (ie, not really CSV friendly), which isn't necessarily within the scope

Maybe add a path to FTP delivery (in case the file is not expected on the root/home folder).

The feed should be transmittable through one or more methods (ie, being able to FTP and email).

Thank you,
Gabriel

Thank you for suggestions, I'll do it.

Another suggestion. I presume most supported feeds use XML internally. And while XML might be the way that most custom feeds should be setup (rather than CSV), in practice it is a bit too complicated (and most opt for CSV). But if you wanted to provide a way to provide custom XML feeds (for those customers that do need to support XML). it seems a bit complicated to provide a method to support custom XML formatting (yet still be able to use the component's scheduling and transfer functionality)

A possible way to generate an outbound XML feed would be to use SQL XML. Allow the user to provide a SQL statement that retrieves data from the nopC database and build the XML. nopFeedManager would execute the SQL statement on the schedule and post the output.

So the feature would allow the execution of custom SQL. It could either output XML, or a single recordset (that would get exported to CSV - a way to avoid having to specify custom XML feed specifications, just query the database and build the CSV from that).

It is not very user friendly (ie, using SQL), but it is a powerful way to interface with the database (and could be much simpler than having users edit XML files.

This would only work for outbound feeds, since it wouldn't have a field mapping specification (of where to save inbound data)

1. I thought about custom XML feed format, but I don't know how to do it. I'll think again.

2. I get products from SQL Server using stored procedure. I'll think over your suggestion to add SQL condition too.

I have a suggestion for another feed ttype for the Feed Manager plugin:  Sortprice.com

Feed format documentation:

https://apps.sortprice.com/my/products?p=datafeeds&i=ajax

We have done it.
1.40

Add support for Houzz (houzz.com)

zootie wrote:

I was reading there specifications page:
https://support.houzz.com/hc/en-us/articles/217121797-Product-Feed

It says they support feeds which are compatible with Amazon. So you can just copy the Amazon template for Houzz and configure your products.

steveembry66@gmail.com wrote:

But...maybe the Houzz feed includes additional columns..I'm not sure.

More details on their feed structure:
https://support.houzz.com/hc/en-us/articles/217138277-Inventory-Management

steveembry66@gmail.com wrote:

Yes. I compared data columns. It should work for you just fine to use the Amazon Inventory feed template. You can just click the Add New button in FeedManager. Choose AmazonInventory for the type, and name it "Houzza".
Set up your products, FTP settings, schedule and generate..then set to active.

I think it would be a great feature to add a feed for mailchimp. Ability to send an rss generated campaign would be great.

Thank you for seggestion.

Do you want to upload products using rss generated campaign?

Yes, on the site I have a menu of products that changes each week. When the page is updated, the feed would trigger mailchimp to send an email with the products available that week.

Mailchimp has merge tags for the rss feed
http://kb.mailchimp.com/merge-tags/rss-blog/preformatted-rss-tags
http://kb.mailchimp.com/merge-tags/rss-blog/rss-merge-tags

Mailchimp uses RSS for import blog post...
Can you help me? I can't find any example about the structure of RSS file.
I see the tag *|RSSFEED:TITLE|*.
Can you show me the example from another store?

For the Google feed, can you add a filter to only show parent products.  We do not show photos for our child products so when the Google feed is generated, we get a lot of errors.

Thanks!

Yes, I can add this filter.
1. Do you want to upload only grouped products or simple products and grouped products without subproducts?
2. What Nopcommerce version do you use?

If possible I would like to add based on visibleindividually, that way I can choose which ones in Admin.

I am running 3.6 at the moment.

Thanks!

You wrote
>We do not show photos for our child products so when the Google feed is generated, we get a lot of errors.

Maybe it will the best solution to load pictures from the parent product if the subproduct doesn't have picture...
What do you think about it?

Sure!  In fact Google Merchants allows for parent-child relationships; there is a field for the parent in the child record so maybe you can replicate that in the feed and use the parent photos in the children