🌟 News and Releases in Mergado

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A new version of Mergado

Deployment date and time

May 27, 2020, 15:30

News

• We added format support for the UPgates platform.
  • Format specifications available here.
  • Audit of this format is in the making.
• We have optimized the application of rules for large projects.
  • We analyzed cases in which for large projects the application of rules has worked with products inefficiently.
  • This was most evident in projects with hundreds of thousands of products and tens to hundreds of rules, many of which target output queries.
    Based on these analyzes, we have implemented improvements that should significantly reduce the overall duration of the application of rules in these extreme cases
• UI news: In several places in the interface - where it can be useful - the rules and queries now show icons that let you know at first glance whether the queries are on input or output.
  • Example from the Rules page:
    • - the rule is targeted only at queries on input.
    • - the rule is targeted at queries on input and output.
    • - the rule is targeted only at queries on output.
  • This can make it much easier for users to optimize rule settings - which has a direct impact on how long a project will take to apply rules to a project.
    You can read more about this topic in the article on our blog: Set Mergado effectively #1: Queries to input values.
• Another update for the Rename categories in bulk rule.
  • You can now insert multiline text in the left column of the categories, which is then correctly divided into new lines.
    • This works for plain text, but also for copied lines from Excel or CSV. If you copy two columns in this way, even these copied values will be correctly divided into left and right columns.
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• We’ve fixed some cases where MQL did not handle special characters in element content - for example, it was not possible to properly search for the content of an element with multiline text inside the multiline content of another element. This has been fixed and it is now possible.
• We’ve updated the format for Google Shopping, which stores the product description in the G:DESCRIPTION element, not in the DESCRIPTION. This is also taken into account by our format converter.
• Improved work in the UI: The modal window for editing values ​​for conditions is included / not included in the list now has better visible buttons even on smaller displays.
• We’ve fixed the Data file Import rule whose application ended in error if the URL where the source CSV is to be located contained a completely empty file. Newly, in such a case, the rule will do nothing.
• We have updated the Glami format, which now supports the Set product parameters and Set shipping price rules for all language versions .
• We have added basic support for Iceland (e.g. its currency).
• We’ve devoted a lot of time to stabilize the Mergado infrastructure.
• And a number of other minor fixes.

Insiders

• For our insiders, we have also prepared a supplement to the updates in the UI.
  • Above the list of rules on the Rules page, you can see the new Show rule series checkbox, which can be used to enable visual differentiation of individual rule series.
  • According to these series, when applying the rules, Mergado “splits” the current list of rules - and such series must then be processed in series - one after the other.
    • This “chopping” has always happened in the background - but thanks to this new tool, it is possible to clearly see how Mergado really plans to apply the rules.
    • The general rule is that the fewer such series in a project, the faster the process of applying the rules.

You may notice minor outages of Mergado during the release time. Thank you for your understanding and patience in deploying the new version.

If you have any questions, please contact us.