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If your product data file is available under a HTTP(S) link, select the connector type "HTTP". After selecting this option you can see three different buttons with whom you can configure the HTTP settings.
Configure HTTP Download Settings
Clicking on the "Configure" button opens the following modal window:
Within this window you can enter your HTTP data feed URL. Furthermore you can enable an authentication and its fitting username and password.
Update Data Feed
After configuring the data feed settings you can upload/update the product data displaying in the Workbench. Like a local upload the file is used e.g. to connect the attribute values to the questions and answer options.
Scheduling
After clicking on the "Schedule" button a modal window appears in which you can enable a download schedule for you product data. That means that you can define a daily time or custom cron job which gets the current state of the product data from the feed. This secures that the Product Guide always has the current data.
Note: The schedule only updates the data for the live Product Guide instance. To get these data into the Workbench you have to click on the "Update" button as well.
For more details, please visit the HTTP subpage.
SFTP
In case that your data file is accessible via SFTP select the connector type "SFTP". Selecting this option provides you the exact same three buttons like the HTTP type.
The "Update" and "Schedule" button are working like the buttons for the HTTP feed. Only the "Configure" button displays a different modal window.
Configure SFTP Download Settings
Unlike in the HTTP settings you have to enter your SFTP host name, port number and filename to get your product data feed. Furthermore you can also enable an authentication.
For more details, please visit the SFTP subpage.
Important Important notes for HTTP or SFTP data download jobs
When providing your product data to excentos via automated download jobs - no matter if provided on HTTP or SFTP server - please pay attention to the following topics:
- if If excentos provided the SFTP server for you, please upload your data file into the folder "www".
- please Please do not change the names of the folder or file without prior notice.
- if If you use XLS or , XLSX or ODS files (instead of CSV files), please make sure that you do not rename the table within the spreadsheet file.
Previewing your Product Data
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