Enter the power of the feed engine! Do you want to exclude the same products from all product feeds or just certain ones?

Create a Multiple Choice type property called something like "Include in Feeds" with values "Yes" and "No". You'll also want to set the default value, presumably "Yes", but highlighting it. Next assign this Type Property each of your Product Types.

Next add the following line of code after line 53 of the /App_Code/FeedEngine/BaseProductFeed.vb file:


Note that you'll need to get the bvin value of the Type Property that you created in the admin. The easy way to do this is to edit the Type Property (after you've saved it) and look at the id value in the query string of the URL. Copy/paste that value into the code and replace "multiple-choice-type-property-bvin". Be sure to retain the quotes around your bvin value or you will get an error.

This could probably be done with some customization, but it is not currently supported.

Figured it out... you need the bvin for both the type property and the value. "Yes" will not work.

I think my original code snippet would work with a "Text" Type Property.

Yes. To only affect the Google Shopping feed you will need to edit that feed rather than BaseProductFeed.

1. I created a Multiple Choice type property called "Include in Feeds" with values "Yes" and "No". I set the default value, to "Yes", by highlighting it.
2. Next, I assign this Type Property to each of our Product Types.
3. Then I added the following code to the BaseProductFeed.vb (Custom Product Added by .... )

Public Overridable ReadOnly Property Products() As Collection(Of Catalog.Product)
Get
If Me._Products Is Nothing OrElse Me._Products.Count = 0 Then
Me._Products = New Collection(Of Catalog.Product)

Dim psc As New Catalog.ProductSearchCriteria()
'Custom Property Added by ...... 8/22/2017
psc.CustomProperties.Add(New Catalog.ProductSearchCriteria.CustomPropertyValue("1efcbd86-ea70-4c53-90dc-ca93e98487e8", "c102a62a-fac7-48c8-afef-f716c6c5e735"))
'Property_Type_Bvin Include in Feed '1efcbd86-ea70-4c53-90dc-ca93e98487e8'
'Property_Choice_bvin Result (Yes) 'c102a62a-fac7-48c8-afef-f716c6c5e735'
'End Custom Property Added

psc.DisplayInactiveProducts = False
psc.Status = Catalog.ProductStatus.Active
psc.SpecialProductTypeOne = Catalog.SpecialProductTypes.Normal ' excludes kits & gift certificates



However, this does not seem to work. We are going to have Aaron look into doing a custom mod for us. Just so someone doesn't spend a lot of time trying to get this to work... Talk with Aaron first.