10-28-2007, 07:57 AM
Quote: Inventory File Processing Changes
Starting the week of October 29, 2007, we will be correcting two problems related to the processing of your inventory files: quantity will be required to create a listing, and duplicate columns will no longer be accepted.
Quantity Will Be Required to Create a Listing
In the coming days, we are correcting a problem where an update with an empty quantity would cause the quantity to be accidentally set to 1.
Today, if you create a new listing using the Inventory Loader or Standard Book Loader feed and do not specify a quantity, the quantity is automatically set to 1. Unfortunately, if you leave the quantity blank in a subsequent update, the quantity is also set to 1 even if you have changed the quantity to another value via feeds or through Manage Your Listings.
With this change, when you create a listing, you must provide a quantity. If this is missing, the record will not be processed and this error will be returned:
A non-zero value is required in the quantity column. Please fix the error and resubmit.
You can correct the problem by adding the missing quantity and re-submitting the feed.
After you have created a listing, you can omit quantity during an update to make changes to price, condition note and shipping options without affecting the quantity. Specifying a quantity of zero will close the listing.
Note that the UIEE feed, which does not include a quantity field, is not affected by this change.
Duplicate Columns Will No Longer Be Accepted
We are correcting a problem where feeds with duplicate columns were accepted. This could lead to ambiguous results if the duplicate columns contained different data.
If your feed contains a duplicate column, it will not be processed and this error message will be returned:
Column [ x ] is repeated in the file.
You can correct the problem by eliminating the duplicate column and re-submitting the feed.
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