Re: Shopping Feeds

[David E Jones]

Scott,







-David


On Oct 20, 2007, at 8:48 AM, Scott. wrote:

There are a few such integrations around. I know, for example, some have been done with amazon and shop.com at least. There is an ebay integration in place in OFBiz (kind of spread around, though I think it should be moved to it's own component and special app as it is kind of funny to have buttons that say "eBay" in the ofbiz order manager). These are generally fairly simple, though sometimes customization is needed for different types/sets of products to send over and such. I know there are others on this list who have more experience than I do with these, hopefully someone will chime in. BTW, not sure what BJ was saying about email and such, but in general with OFBiz integrations take whatever form the other system needs, and in this case like you mentioned I think sending files over FTP is actually pretty common, and what the ones I have seen do (and the ones we've done for clients at Hotwax).

I think I understand what you are saying.... I think.


will need them at some point.


$500 in the kitty to kick the ball off.




BJ Freeman wrote:

That said, shopping feeds differ from network to network as do their file types and location to upload or download for that matter. Any serious B2C If anyone else would consider collaborating on this, I'd be happy to throw

My preference  is to do something like the product store emails.

the output.
This is what i am moving to from the service implementation

my second option is to use the standard outputs as a service.
no user intervention.
the user can be told where the output is on a page.
if you read the feeds you will see that the assigning of where to get
the feed from ofbiz is done at the feeds themselves.



Scott. sent the following on 10/19/2007 1:17 PM:

were you can put in the variables and point to a template that generates

Thanks for the reply guys. Here is the way I see it happening

This is the way I see it happening.


feed.
Let’s use MSN Shopping as an example.

So we create the name MSN shopping and then we have a whole bunch of

below, we choose from the dropdowns the corresponding fields in our
database. For this particular feed it would be like this;

OFBiz Database Name              Shopping Feed Name
Friendly
Name in Database
Poduct.productName               Product Name
Widget
Product.description                 Product Description
Nice Blue Widget

Company, Sony, Apple (Different than Vendor)
External                                MSN Categorization
Widget Category
Product.productId                   MPN/UPC/ISBN/UniqueCode
123456
Serial Number or Item Number
ProductPrice.Price                    Price
$100 (Selling Price)
Product.detailScreen                 Product URL

Prodct.detailImageUrl                Image URL
…/images/Widgets/Blue_Widget.jpg
Inventoryitem.QuantityOnHand   Stock Availability
Yes
or No
Product.ChargeShipping            Shipping Costs
$10, Free, Already set in OFBiz
ProductKeyword.keyword          Keywords
Auto Created Keywords already created in catalog manager


to

to

and
in some instances if the file should be tarballed or zipped.

Lastly, if we have a location to upload to (i.e.

Open the Data Feed Page. First Choice is to create a name for the data dropdowns that relate to fields in the database. So, using the example Product.manufacturerPartyId Manufacturer Name My ...8080/ecommerce/control/product/~category_id=WIDGETS/ ~product_id=123456 Once we have mapped the database to the filed requirements we would need determine the output format and also assign a tracking code and perhaps a data source for tracking purposes. That would be appended to the url. In this case it would be a csv file but I guess XML, etc would also be good have. Then we would choose where to place the file, enter the file name ftp://msn.com/shopping_feed) and a username and password to allow for

that.





wikitec wrote:

Hi Scott


whereby, products are displayed purely on amount available filters
hopefully
using realtime xml direct links from b2b

Don't know whether this is where you are heading or not

cheers

I am looking to set up ofbiz as a purely drop ship virtual warehouse,

-----Original Message-----
From: Scott. [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Friday, 19 October 2007 7:57 AM
To: user@ofbiz.apache.org
Subject: Shopping Feeds



shopping
engines.


and

be

engines to download from us.

Is anyone using ofbiz to create this kind of thing? Is there any
interest
in
something like this?


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We run a retail B2C business and advertise a fair bit in comparison Has anyone ever put together anything to manage shopping feeds? The information needed in these feeds would be based on the engines format will change from feed to feed. They are the type of things that need to updated daily and uploaded to shopping engines ftp sites using various rules, user names and passwords or by being placed our server for the View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Shopping- Feeds-

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