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I've downloaded the Google Shopping Feed Xmod and installed it, but when I tried uploading the googlebase.xml file to the shopping feed, it said there was an error.
It seems it's because I was using the HTML £ sign rather than £ for the GBP pound sign which XML accepts.
I know the Xmod runs as a Cron job every night, but is there a way I can trigger this to force it to run sooner so I don't have to wait until tomorrow to check the feed?
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Assuming you corrected the error (view the XML file, find the offer the error was associated with, fix name/description to correct error), then you can force cron to run by:
(1) Access System / Database / Raw DB Admin and navigate to the Submit Raw SQL Statement function. Submit this statement:
UPDATE core_settings SET value=1 WHERE id LIKE '%.cron_%_last'
(2) Access your homepage, which will trigger all cron jobs to run.
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I seem to have got this fixed now by changing the symbol for the Pound sign to & # 163 ; (I have to put the spaces in, otherwise the forum software changes the code to a £ symbol!)
Thinking about the cron job part, I have a vague recollection of you mentioning (possibly in v8) that there was going to be a "Run cron jobs now" button rather than having to go into Raw DB Admin and submit an SQL statement.
Did that not get implemented?
Last edited by Graham (02-09-2021 12:02:17)
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No, that was not implemented. In K9 cron became processing intensive if you added XMODs on like Amazon, eBay, etc. so we implemented server-triggered cron instead and recommend that for sites using channel XMODs and large sites producing big sitemaps.
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