Automating the creation and uploading of feeds

-M        Mash the feed(s). This will create the specified feeds from your Actinic products.

-U        Upload the feeds. This will upload any feeds that have been configured (and can be uploaded).

Options :

 -C  <rate>          Convert prices using the given rate

-D <option>  Include duplicates,  Y = include duplicates, N = do not include duplicates

-H <option>  Include hidden products  Y = include hidden products, N = do not include hidden products

-O <option>   The output filename for the feed produced to be stored in - only use this if you are exporting a single feed.

-T <option>  Specifies whether to add tax to the prices in the created feed,  Y = add prices, N = do not add prices.

Feeds to include and feed types :

-F   <listoffeeds>     The feeds to Mash and/or Upload. To include a particular feed you should include the feed name (as described below). The string included after the ?F must not have any spaces in. When including more than 1 feed name you shouldn't?t include any spaces between them.

NOTE: If you don?t specify any feeds to create the last selected feeds will be used (when you started the Product Mash in normal mode).

-A   <amazon feed type>     The amazon feed type to use for this run (only used if an amazon seller central feed is being produced.  Enter the keyword in the left hand column to produce a feed for the category shown in the right hand column.

ELECTRONICS	Consumer Electronics
HOME	Home and Garden
TOYS	Toys and Baby
WATCHES	Watches
JEWELLERY	Jewelry
SOFTWARE	Software and Video Games
SPORTS	Sports
BEAUTY	Beauty
HOME	Home Improvements
OFFICE	Office
APPAREL	Apparel
LIGHTING	Lighting
AUTOMOTIVE	Automotive
FOOD	Food and Beverages
INSTRUMENTS	Musical Instruments
PETS	Pet Supplies
VIDEO	Video
MUSIC	Music
BOOKS	Books
PRICES	Price and Quantity (update feed)

Examples

Create and upload a Google Shopping

ME_FroogleMash.exe -B -M -U -F GoogleShop

Create and upload a Google Shopping feed without adding tax to the prices

ME_FroogleMash.exe -B -M -U -F GoogleShop -T N

Create and upload a Google Shopping feed excluding duplicates, but including hidden products

ME_FroogleMash.exe -B -M -U -F GoogleShop -D N -H Y

Create an Amazon ProMerchant and Ebay feeds

ME_FroogleMash.exe -B -M -F ProMerchantEbay

Create and upload Shopzilla, Google Sitemap, Paid On Results and Price Runner feeds

ME_FroogleMash.exe -B -M -F ShopzillaGoogleSitemapPaidOnResultsPriceRunner

Create an Amazon ProMerchant (Seller Central) update feed,  output to a different filename to the one specified in the standard options

ME_FroogleMash.exe -B -M -F ProMerchant -A PRICES -O c:\Amazon\Upload\PriceFile.txt

Create an Amazon ProMerchant (Seller Central) update feed,  output to a different filename to the one specified in the standard options

ME_FroogleMash.exe -B -M -F ProMerchant -A PRICES -O c:\Amazon\Upload\PriceFile.txt

Advanced automated feed creation

Running the Product Mash at a specific time each day (or week)
You can run the Product Mash as a scheduled task (in batch mode) to automatically create and upload your feeds. For example, you may want to create and upload your Googlebase feeds at 5:30pm each day. To do this you need to create a scheduled task in the scheduled tasks folder.

The scheduled task folder is available in the Control Panel. To create a task simply open the folder and click on the Add Scheduled Task icon. The wizard will guide you through setting this up. When asked to select a program to run, if the Product Mash for Actinic is not listed use the browse button to locate the program in the installation directory. On the last page of the Scheduled Task Wizard tick Open advanced properties for this task when I click Finish. You need to amend the program to Run to include the command line options (as shown above). For example, to create and upload a Googlebase feed add -B ?M ?U ?F Googlebase to the end of the program to run.

Automating the feed creation (and uploading) with more than 1 Actinic site

The Product Mash always uses the current Actinic site to get the settings for. To use this with multiple sites you need to manually change the Actinic site. To automate the changing of sites you need to use One Stop Automation with the multi-site option. You can create a task within One Stop Automation to go to each of the selected Actinic sites and create and upload the feeds. Initially you will need to use Actinic to change to each of the Actinic sites and restart the Product Mash to amend the various settings (and feed names) specific to that Actinic site. Once set-up One Stop Automation will change the Actinic site and restart the Product Mash which will reload the settings specific to that site.

You need to create a task in One Stop Automation similar to the one shown below:

This will create and upload a Googlebase feed at 5:30 every weekday at 5:30pm.

The commandline shown above is:

"C:\Program Files\MoleEnd\Utilities\FroogleMash\V8\ME_FroogleMash.exe" -B -M -U -F Googlebase <Window>

Note: You also need to turn on external program calling in the Order Processing Options (as shown below).

NOTE: If you put <Window> at the end of the program to run (as shown in the example above) all the output from the Product Mash is sent to the main One Stop Automation window. This can (if required) be automatically emailed to you. In this way you can monitor your feed uploads remotely.