ChannelEngine Transmitter

We provide a full configured station template with the necessary datamap and jobs for the Dynamic JSON Transmitter!

About the Transmitter

Setup the transmitter

In the settings you need to setup the following things:

1. the url to your ChannelEngine api
2. the ChannelEngine api token

Configure the datamaps

With the station template you get two pre-configured datamaps. The datamaps include all the fields that are available with the ChannelEngine api.
The identifier for products in ChannelEngine is called the MerchantProductNo.
This identifier is needed to create, update or delete products from ChannelEngine.

Bundles

Available from 1.22

The transmitter also supports product bundles. A bundle is a product in ChannelEngine that is composed of other products (the Parts), each identified by their MerchantProductNo.

The station template includes a dedicated datamap for bundles. Each bundle requires:

• its own MerchantProductNo (the bundle identifier in ChannelEngine)
• the standard product fields (e.g. Name, Ean, Price)
• a list of Parts, where every part provides:
  • MerchantProductNo – the identifier of the part product (must already exist in ChannelEngine)
  • Quantity – how many units of the part are contained in the bundle
  • PricePercentage – the share of the bundle price attributed to this part (the sum of all parts must equal 100)

Custom Fields

In the field ‘ExtraData’ you can configure custom fields.
Every custom field needs the following values:

• Key
• Value
• Type (Possible Types: Text, Number, URL and Image URL)
• IsPublic (Possible entry: true or false)

To set the ‘Type’-field dynamically you can use a transformation list.
Therefore download the import file for the transformation values (Download Excel Import File for Transformation List), which you can import in contentserv.
We also provide a guide on how to import a transformation list.

Media Upload

ChannelEngine allows up to ten images. Therefore you need to set the image url for each image.