My XML is at http://www.charisma-art.com/mambots/system/vmrss_v4/all_products.xml

It seems like I have duplicate products in the XML File. Any idea what is going on? I'm using 4.0.2 with VirtueMart 1.0.13a.

Example: Look for iPod in the XML string...

If it helps troubleshooting - we are using "parent" and "child" products within VirtueMart......

Hi There, sorry for the delay i didn't see you post this

Yes i can see what you mean, the product is the same but it looks like it is picking it up form the parent and child
http://www.charisma-art.com/index.php?page=shop.product_details&flypage=shop.flypage&option=com_virtuemart&product_id=550&vmcchk=1&Itemid=105

http://www.charisma-art.com/index.php?page=shop.product_details&flypage=shop.flypage&option=com_virtuemart&product_id=550

That's what i found relating to ipod, and when you look they are identical accept the child extension after &vmcchk=1&Itemid=105

Ill have a look into it and see if can find anything out for you.
Regards
Ian

Most of our "Open Edition Prints" have a parent product with three child products. This was the only way for us to set it up so each of the three products have different weight and size for the shipping calculation. Let me know if you need more information from me.

I hope the duplication does not make Google disable my feed....

Peter

We also have different prices for the same child products based on quantities. Could that be a reason for the dupplication?

Here is what I think happens. If a product has multiple prices, the mambot will create a separate product line for each price.
<item>
<title><![CDATA[A World Apart]]></title>
<link><![CDATA[http://www.charisma-art.com/index.php?
page=shop.product_details&flypage=shop.flypage&option=com_virtuemart&product_id=620]]></link>
<description><![CDATA[<p>Each Image Size, Unmatted]]></description>
<g:image_link><![CDATA[.jpg]]></g:image_link>
<g:mpn>9597u</g:mpn>
<g:brand><![CDATA[Conni Togel]]></g:brand>
<g:id>620</g:id>
<g:currency>USD</g:currency>
<grice>39.95</grice>
<groduct_type><![CDATA[]]></groduct_type>
<g:condition>New</g:condition></item>


<item>
<title><![CDATA[A World Apart]]></title>
<link><![CDATA[http://www.charisma-art.com/index.php?
page=shop.product_details&flypage=shop.flypage&option=com_virtuemart&product_id=620]]></link>
<description><![CDATA[<p>Each Image Size, Unmatted]]></description>
<g:image_link><![CDATA[.jpg]]></g:image_link>
<g:mpn>9597u</g:mpn>
<g:brand><![CDATA[Conni Togel]]></g:brand>
<g:id>620</g:id>
<g:currency>USD</g:currency>
<grice>34.95</grice>
<groduct_type><![CDATA[]]></groduct_type>
<g:condition>New</g:condition></item>


<item>
<title><![CDATA[A World Apart]]></title>
<link><![CDATA[http://www.charisma-art.com/index.php?
page=shop.product_details&flypage=shop.flypage&option=com_virtuemart&product_id=620]]></link>
<description><![CDATA[<p>Each Image Size, Unmatted]]></description>
<g:image_link><![CDATA[.jpg]]></g:image_link>
<g:mpn>9597u</g:mpn>
<g:brand><![CDATA[Conni Togel]]></g:brand>
<g:id>620</g:id>
<g:currency>USD</g:currency>
<grice>29.95</grice>
<groduct_type><![CDATA[]]></groduct_type>
<g:condition>New</g:condition></item>

We have wholesale prices (for a specific shopper group) in addition to the default price (visible to everybody/default shopper group.) and I can see the same product for different quantities in the xml. The wholesale prices are not available on the website unless you have your user attached to the wholesale shopper group.

It seems like there should be a setting that influences which shopper group products/prices are exported. If there is no setting, it should only export the products and prices attached to the default shopper group.

Does this make sense? We do not want to have the wholesale prices on Google Base. Just the default prices that are visible through the site without login....

Well ptogel
Ive had about 4 hours sleep and to wake up and check that reply, is certainly make me work for my money

Its also like the multiple tax problem, this is something we talked about here for nearly a month whilst researching how to develop it, and just couldn't work out a way to get around it. For example if somebody lives in America, and another person lives in the UK, then the price could be different due to different tax amounts.

So what we decided to do, is export all products at both tax amounts, then at least one is right, allowing you to manually delete the other if needed. I know this is a hard job, but we couldn't think on how to export the products without adding in a tax manual amount over ride, so the admin user would add in the tax %, which it would calculate it on. But then the price would be wrong for some countries!!!!

Can you see the problems with it

Your having a similar problem that is almost impossible to correct in the system, as it doesn't matter how we built it, it wouldn't work for all shopping groups, child products, and attributes, as the combinations go into many thousands or millions of products.

We have one client with 300,000 products and many of them are clothing with different sizes and colours, so in theory with 3 sizes S,M,L and 5 colours, you would export the main product plus 5 x 3 = 15 combinations, so each product would really have 16 exports x 300K products = an XML document with 4.5 million products on it.

Also we have a guy who sells computers with many attributes to add to the product, sometimes there could be about 100 different variations or more.

And the worst one is our Width x Height hack, that readjusts the price depending on the width and height you add.

I'm not sure i can help you with this, that is why i added the demo version for you to test, so you would be able to see if it was working or not before you bought it. I don't think even a shopping groups selector would solve this problem as it is also the child products that are causing a conflict.

if you can think of a way for me to fix this please let me know, as i think it would be great to release 4.1 with the corrections needed.

All the best
Ian