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Setting up a Custom XML feed

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What do I use a custom feed for? If you want to create custom output of a feed in the format of a XML feed, you can set up a custom XML feed in Channable with the following steps.

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Step 1: Create a custom XML feed

  1. Go to [Your project] > Channels.
  2. Click +Create channel.
  3. Select "Custom XML". The name of your feed will automatically be set to "Custom XML", but you can change it to another name in the Feed name field.
  4. Click Continue.

The default tags of your feed are set to “item” and “items”. If you want to use these tags, click the “Continue” button.

However, if you want to use custom tags in your feed, you can select the “Custom tags” option and fill in your own tags. The item tag is created for every item within in your feed, and the items tag is created at the beginning of the feed. After setting up your custom tags, you can click the “Continue” button.

Step 2: Categories

For custom feeds, it is not mandatory to set up the categories. However, if you do wish to set up categories you can do that in this step and the resulting categories will be Google product categories. You can set up categories using the generate categories function or by manually adding categories.

Step 3: Rules

After categorizing your products, you can create different rules to optimize your product data.

Tip: We've put together a list of commonly used rules.

Step 4: Mapping

In the Mapping step of the feed, you will choose which fields you want to add to your feed. You can click on "+Auto-add all fields" to automatically add all your project fields to your feed, or you can click on "+Add new field" to add internal fields one by one.

After adding the fields, you can provide them with a channel field name. The channel field name is the tag that will be used for the field in the XML feed.


Step 5: Activate your feed and get the feed URL

In order to activate the custom XML feed, the project has to be activated:

  1. Go to Settings and click Activate project.
  2. Go to Feeds > Your custom XML feed > Preview and click Activate feed.
  3. Once you activate your project and feed, feed URL will show.