XML Import Format

GarageSale
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I’m working on an importing workflow, and am having issues with the following tasks:

  1. Adding shipping fees:

This is some sample text from the help page:

Standard Shipping from outside US

Economy Int’l Shipping

Open and close tags are different here, can excel generation of XML code do this?

  1. How can I ensure that a 99¢ bid isn’t automatically added to the template?

Setting the format to fixed price and the starting bid to the BIN price does not work.

  1. How can I tag the first image as the gallery image? I couldn’t get the sample text to work!

  2. Can payment options be included?

Thanks in advance for your time.

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Hi,

Turn off the starting bid checking in GarageSale’s preferences > New Templates.

Here is some sample text taken from our help page, that does exactly that:

<domesticShippingService serviceAdditionalFee="2.00" serviceFee="12.00">UPS Ground</domesticShippingService> <internationalShippingService serviceFee="22.00">UPS Worldwide Express</internationalShippingService>

Can you post the sample XML you have been trying so far?

<imageURL isGalleryImage="true">http://my-sever.com/my-image.jpg</imageURL>

Have you tried copying the sample XML text from our website to the TextEdit application, saving it, and importing it into GarageSale?

I don’t think Microsoft Excel can generate appropriate XML for GarageSale to import. I believe you need some sort of script that reads that from whatever format your data is currently has, and exports it to GarageSale’s XML format.

Hope this helps,
Ilja

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Ilja,
Thanks for your
email.
I have deselected
the starting box checkbox in the preferences, a fresh import since
that change now shows the starting bid as 0.00.
I saw the sample
data on the wiki page about shipping and gallery image - I’m
unable to get excel or the Xml editor software to generate similar
code, as they each use the 1st row in each column as the open /
close tag in the XML output.
I can email a
sample XML file that I’ve been able to generate so far, I wasn’t able to attach that to this email (email response states: "Sorry, new users can’t put images in posts. Sorry, new users can only put 2 links in a post”), however I can send it through.
Thanks again,

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Hi,

I increased your user level on this support site from zero to one, so you should be able to attach files and links to your posts now.

Sorry, I cannot help you with Excel or your XML Editor. I edit XML files with the TextEdit application included with OS X or with TextWrangler’s XML syntax highlighting mode.

Regards,
Ilja

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Ilja,
Thanks for your email, sample XML file attached.
I understand structuring the more complex XML code for the shipping / gallery images is nothing to do with GarageSale, so I’ll work out some way of doing that.
Aside from that, I would like to know which fields in the XML import need to be selected for a BIN auction with best offer as an option.
As it stands, I can get those options on the XML file into GarageSale, however it also has the minimum bid checkbox selected, with a minimum bid of 0.00.
I can of course deselect this within GarageSale after import, however it’d be better to do so before import.
Thanks again,

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Something went wrong with the file upload. Seems the file messed up the mark-up language of the forum software. Please try responding via e-mail and attached your file there.

That would be <bestOffer>true</bestoffer> <buyItNowPrice>5.99</buyItNowPrice> .

Turn off the starting bid check box in GarageSale’s preferences > New Templates. Every value which not specified in the XML file is taken from your preferences.

Regards,
Ilja