Apparently your customers are more, er, particular with their data than I've experienced.
On Dec 2, 2:54 pm, Tom Wilson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'd be interested in what the 70 checks were because i tend to built > in centrally validation and formatting routines to the core codebase i > built feeds from. > > UPC is never something that i overly verify mainly because i leave it > up to my customers to provide valid data. They get data mainly > directly from the manufacturer/supplier and for anything else i have a > UPC search tool that queries Google Base data they can use to do some > research. > > Tom Wilson > Freelance Google Base Developer and Consultantwww.tomthedeveloper.com > > Google Base Tools -http://dev.tomthedeveloper.com/googlebase > Featured Project > :http://google-code-featured.blogspot.com/2008/02/google-base-competit... > > On Dec 2, 5:53 pm, icebackhaz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Ah well I would validate on receipt from our client, for whom we have > > the responsibility to produce good listings. Then once the data is in > > my control, I can send to google secure in the knowledge that it will > > be acceptable. I see no advantage in just sending stuff up then > > groping through a typically bad web UI to edit errant values. Simply > > doesn't scale. > > > On Dec 1, 9:19 pm, Celebird <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > i bothered implementing a modified luhn > > > before the google-base quality feature -- > > > so now i feel i've wasted the effort. > > > > but since the ~70 other validation checks take > > > under a few minutes per 50,000 items they can > > > sometimes save time when typos are an issue. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google Base Data API" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/Google-Base-data-API?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
