Thread: Questions about rules

I finally had the chance to peruse with DotFeed. It's a pretty slick and powerful tool. I have a couple of questions and suggestions:

1- How can I concatenate data to show in a feed column? i.e.: Product description + Variant Description. If not possible, I would like to suggest this as a feature for the tool.

2- Does DotFeed only work with Published=1 products?. I did not see any rules that depends on the Published flag.

3- How do I show one of the Product extension data fields as the UPC column in the feed? We need to populate the gtin column.

4- Google has guidelines for length of product titles. Does the tool truncates the titles after a certain number of characters? If not, it would be a cool option.

5- Is the image link column data coming from the product image or the variant?

Thanks!

1 - That's tricky, it depends a bit on what you're trying to concatenate. You can only concatenate a field with another if one of them is the original match on the rule, and the other is the one you're setting.

For example:

If*ALL*of the following are true:
Variant Description*Matches*This product is purple*
then*set*description*=*{current}{original}

By default the description we output comes from the product, so that's {current}. {original} tells it to add the value of what you matched on (Variant Description) to the end of what we're outputting

2 - We only pull products that would actually appear on the site, yes. Published, not deleted, in-stock (if you're hiding by inventory levels), etc

3 - Do a rule like this (all 5 ExtensionData fields are accessible):

If*ALL*of the following are true:
ProductExtensionData*Matches***
then*set*gtin*=*{original}

4 - DotFeed does not currently truncate. We will consider your suggestion, thanks very much.

5 - The medium product image is being used by default. You can override that with rules if desired.

For example. I if Product ManufacturerPartNumber = See Dropdown I would like to set mpn to Variant ManufacturerPartNumber.

I'm not quite sure if I understand the question, you seemed like referring to a "Dropdown"...but if you want to map Variant ManufacturerPartNumber into mpm attribute, that's possible yes.

You'd do it like this:
If variant ManufacturerPartNumber matches ?*
then set mpn = {original}

Originally Posted by AspDotNetStorefront Staff - Alfred

I'm not quite sure if I understand the question, you seemed like referring to a "Dropdown"...but if you want to map Variant ManufacturerPartNumber into mpm attribute, that's possible yes.

You'd do it like this:
If variant ManufacturerPartNumber matches ?*
then set mpn = {original}

Something like this is was I am looking for.

If product ManufacturerPartNumber matches ?*
then set mpn = variant ManufacturerPartNumber

Do you see what I mean?

First off, you need to check whether variant mpn has value before mapping it into mpn attribute. You don't want to store empty values into mpn, right?


To do that, add this rule:

If ALL of the following are true:
Variant ManufacturerPartNumber Matches ?*
and Product ManufacturerPartNumber Matches ?*
Then set mpn = {original}

The above rule has two matching fields but the {original} token will sticks in only the value of the first field you were matching on for that rule, in that case it's the variant manufacturerpartnumber.

I would actually like to set the product name= product name + variant mpn

Add a rule something like:
If Product ManufacturerPartNumber matches ?*
then set Title = {current} - {original}