Product feed: Magento Extension by Amasty. User Guide.

User Guide: Product Feed Page 1
Product Feed
Magento Extension
User Guide
Support: http://amasty.com/support.html
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Table of contents:
1. Product Feed Settings ….………………………………………………………………….3
2. Custom fields to modify original attributes ….…………………………………...4
3. General data and base attribute for a custom field ……..……………….……..5
4. Editing of prices and numeric data with custom fields ……..…….………….6
5. Editing of text attributes with custom fields ….……………………………….…7
6. Creation of product feeds ………………………………………………………..………8
7. Ready-made templates for feeds creation …………………………………….….. 9
8. Feed generation mode and other feed options ………………………………….10
9. Configure feed content ………………………………………………………………….. 11
10. Select products for the feed ……………………………………………………..…... 16
11. Specify delivery data ……………………………………..…………………………….. 17
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User Guide: Product Feed

1. Product Feed Settings
To edit the extension settings please
go to admin panel -> System ->
Configuration -> Product Feeds
You can set maximum memory which can
be used for generation of feeds and batch
size. Let’s say you have 1000 products in
catalog and batch size of 100. The product
feed will be generated in 10 iterations of
100. The purpose of this is to insure that
your server will not get overloaded.
You can enable two additional options for feeds:
1. Ability to use url of parent products for associated
items of configurable products.
2. An option to either use default image or just skip
image for products, which do not have images.

2. Custom fields to modify original attributes
It is possible to create custom fields for cases
when you need to modify the original values of
an attribute. For this please go to Catalog ->
Product Feeds -> Custom Fields.

3. General data and base attribute for a custom field
Please specify the custom field
name, code and choose the
attribute based on which the
custom field is created. In this
case it is ‘Brand’.
Default value will be used if some product does not use
the base attribute - e.g. is not assigned to any brand. It
can be set either statically or as a dynamic variable.
For dynamic variable you can specify an alternative
attribute which can be used instead of the base one in
cases when a product does not use the base attribute.
E.g. you can specify {manufacturer} as default value for
cases when a product does not use attribute ‘brand’.

4. Editing of prices and numeric data with custom fields
‘Modification’ field
can be used for
numeric attributes
to modify the values
either by percent or
by fixed amount. E.g.
you can increase
values of attribute
‘Price’ by 10% or
decrease them by
fixed amount of 5.

At the ‘Mapping’ tab you can specify with which
values the original text values of the base attribute
should be replaced.
In our case we replace category name ‘Cell
Phones’ with ‘Electronics > Communications >
Telephony > Mobile Phones’.
5. Editing of text attributes with custom fields

Now we got to creation of feeds.
For this please go to Catalog ->
Product Feeds -> Feeds.
6. Creation of product feeds

When you create feed, you can use the ready made template.
This way feed will contain all the basic settings for the certain
shopping search engine. You can do any custom adjustments during
the creation process or later.
There are templates available for several shopping engines:
shopping.com, google.com, myshopping.com, nextag.com,
shopmania.com, amazon.com
7. Ready-made templates for feeds creation

At the general tab you can:
1. Select for which store view to create the feed.
2. Specify its name.
3. Choose format (XML, CSV or TXT).
4. Specify the name of the feed file. After the feed generation the file can be either downloaded
manually from Magento backend or from the ftp location you specify at the Delivery tab.
5. Select feed generation mode (Manual, Daily, Weekly or Monthly).
6. Choose delivery type – manual download of feed file or upload of the file via ftp.
7. Set the number of pictures used for the product. (while adjusting the feed you’ll be able to choose
one of the pictures for the ‘image’ type of field)
8. Feed generation mode and other feed options

The ‘Content’ tab allows to configure
which product data to include in the
product feeds. The functionality of the
tab depends on the format you select
at the ‘General’ tab.
If you choose XML format, you will get
fields for entering the feed header,
footer and product information.
9. Configure feed content
To add a line of data to a feed, please
enter the attribute xml tag according
to the specification of a particular
shopping search engine, e.g. g:price
for google.
Please select the type of data
to enter – a product attribute,
a custom field or just some
plain text. Please see the next
page for continuation.

When ‘Attribute’ or ‘Custom
Field’ data type is selected, in
the ‘Value’ field you can choose
which attribute or custom field
to enter into the feed.

It is possible to limit the number
of characters for the data values.
Once you complete configuring
the data entry, please click ‘Insert’
button.
When you choose ‘Yes’ for
‘parent’ setting, data from
the main configurable
product will be used.

With CSV or
TXT format, at
the ‘Content’
tab you can get
options for
feed file
formatting –
whether to
show column
names in the
feed file, how
to separate
fields, etc.
To add a line with data to the feed
please click ‘Add Column’ button. For
each line you can indicate the column
header (title), choose type of data,
select the value, specify which text
should be displayed before and after
the values, max value length.

In the ‘Formats’ section you can
specify the date format for the
feed file, choose how many
digits should be displayed after
delimiter for decimal prices.
You can also choose whether to
use value of parent configurable
product for associate products if
attribute is empty and whether to
use category in URL or not.
Choose whether to use default
image for products without
images.

At the ‘Conditions’ tab you can choose
which products to include in the feed.
It is possible to select which product
types to include in the feed, e.g.
‘Simple’ and ‘Configurable’ and
whether to include disabled and out
of stock products in the feed.
10. Select products for the feed
You can narrow down the list of
products by category or by product
attributes, e.g. add products only
from certain categories and with price
higher then 50.

When you select ‘FTP’ as
delivery type at the ‘General’
tab, at the ‘Delivery’ tab you can
enter credentials of the ftp
account, to which the feed
should uploaded.
11. Specify delivery data
In addition you can specify the path
where file should be uploaded and
whether to use passive or active
mode for ftp connection.

Thank you!
Your feedback is absolutely welcome!
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