Resolved Export "in_stock" for Virtuemart > GoogleBase Q

Hello Andy,

You can use the Rules to add a replacement during export for this field. You can have one rule that matches 0 to show "out of stock". You can have another rule that matches 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9 using multiple values and have it show "in stock". There is no rules plugin that can do a greater than or lower than and equal check. Might be a nice idea to add.

Finally if you are really adventurous you could write your own Rules plugin and have it do exactly what you want.

Thanks for your reply. I pretty much have all the google base export sorted out now, but this availability/stock is an issue.
Having the stock/availability is a compulsory field for the Google feed & must have one of the values;

1. preorder


2. out of stock


3. in stock

Iv'e set up a rule to replace the "0" with "out of stock" , but without a way to change all other numbers to "in stock" , I am not sure what to do.

Adding all numbers 1 through 9999 isn't really an option & I wouldn't know where to start with creating a rules plugin of my own.
And although I personally don't need the "preorder" I am not sure how that could be handled either?

OK, bit of digging with regular expression and this is sorted of in/out of stock. Not sure how you would solve the "preorder" secenario.

I set up these below rules & added them to the stock/availability field in the google base export template that I have set up

1st I set up a rule for out of stock.
Find: /^0/
Replace: out of stock
Set as regular expression

2nd I Set up a rule for In stock assuming stock is not greater than 99999
Find: /^(?=.*[1-9].*)[0-9]{1,5}$/
Replace: in stock
Set as regular expression






Thanks for pointing me in the right direction

Hey Andy,

Thanks for the feedback. That is a good solution.

Adding all numbers 1 through 9999 isn't really an option

I didn't mean to add all the numbers, just the numbers 1 through 9. You don't need any higher numbers. For example if you have 234 in stock, matching the number 2 you know it is above zero, so it can be replaced. That is what I was thinking.

In the future we will have a rule where you can do comparison and change values