Product Mash: How to use Macros with text fields in the product mash
Sometimes the default values, taken from Actinic, used by the Product Mash are not the best suited for your feed. Sometimes additional requirements of a feed mean that you need specific information from information already entered into Actinic.
Using more than one Macro at a time
Custom Variables / User Defined Properties Macros
Product Data Macros - Custom Variables / User Defined Properties
You can use Custom Variables anywhere in your property definitions. You simply need to use a !!$ before and $!! after the custom variable to use. For example, to use a custom variable called EAN enter !!$EAN$!! in the field definition. Using this approach you can use more than 1 custom variable in a property definition. For example, to create a product description made up of some of 3 custom variables you have defined that contain the manufacturer, product type and product code you would use !!$Manufacturer$!! - !!$ProductType$!! (!!$EAN$!!).
You can use the following values in any of the feed fields to substitute information. Example of these are shown in the various feed examples.
Using more than 1 Custom Variable in a product value
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If you want to put certain values, for example, your Ebay shipping Terms and Conditions, in a file you can include this file by using a !![ and ]!! around the file name. An example is shown below. This uses the value !!Description!! !![c:\Feeds\EbayFooter.html]!! to put a standard terms and conditions at the end of each product description.
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Using custom property / user defined property values
If you want to include the value of custom properties from Sellerdeck in your feed you can use a macro to do this. �The format of the macro is :
!!$<filename>$!! eg !!$brand$!!
Make sure that you use the same case as Sellerdeck.
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Including product option details
If you want to include the details of the options for a product in your feed you can use a macro to do this. There are two macros, one gives all the details on a single entry, the second creates an entry for each value.
To include all of the values for a product option within the same entry use !!#<optionname>#!! � eg !!#Colour#!!
To include all of the values for a product option in a seperate entry use !!%<optionname> � eg !!%Colour%!!
If you have used different names for the same option, you can enter a list with each name separated by the | character eg !!#Colour|Color|Shade#!!
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