Resolved Google Merchant

Hello,

2. Unknown 'google product category' value

Google is very specific about the categories they support. So you must either match the categories on your site to match the categories Google allows or you have to replace them during export using a replacement rule. The tutorial I linked earlier has a reference to the Google documentation. The section Product category explains the categories Google supports.

These are rules that Google enforces and is not something that CSVI requires you to do. This may be frustrating to learn you actually need to adhere to the Google rules but there isn't much we can do about this. We are trying to help you as much as we can.

update

I resolved this with quite a bit of fiddling -
not sure how the google merchant template helped other than saving in an xml format.
As a bonus I have learned a bit about csvi capabilities

thx

new errors

1.Insufficient product identifiers: Missing two out of three attributes [GTIN, brand, MPN]

( creating a g:identifier_exists as a custom field was perhaps missing from advice

and

2. Unknown 'google product category' value

( creating a custom field for category and filtering my products to match taxonomy ID did trick here)

thx for your fast response

I did not see this so will try and then update

Hello Mike,

The problem is that you have not set a fieldname for your export field. If you look at this:

<><![CDATA[0.00 GBP]]></>

notice the first

<>

. This means there is no fieldname. That is why the XML can't be parsed. I wonder if you have seen the Creating a Google Base export file tutorial?

You will need to modify your template for it to produce a valid XML output.

Hello,

XML Parsing Error: not well-formed

This error says there should be a invalid character in your XML file. Can you post the google export file to check?