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Old 02-06-2016, 10:15 PM
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Default Re: Product Feeds module for X-Cart 5 released

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Originally Posted by Montie
I would expect the default setup for any of the selected feeds to be fully populated out of the box. Instead the feeds generated are blank.

The problem is that every shopping website has its own set of categories and requires a category from this set to be selected for each your product that goes into the feed.

Since there is no way to automatically guess what feed categories your products belong to, you have to choose the feed categories manually. You can do it when editing a product (the "Feed categories" tab), or from the list of products in the back end (select products and perform the "Update categories" action).

Also, there is a checkbox on the feed settings page. When enabled, it includes products without feed categories into feeds. However, most shopping sites will consider this as a problem and display a warning when importing the feeds. That's why the setting is disabled.

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Originally Posted by Montie
When I go to configure them (which I really shouldn't have to do), there are bunches of fields missing.

Please can you clarify what fields are missing?

Last edited by xplorer : 02-06-2016 at 10:18 PM.
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