The Peoples Web feed is hosted on their server.

Output Filename
Type in the name of the file to store the Peoples Web information to (including the directory). This is the name of the file that Peoples Web will be expecting on their server. This file must end with .csv (e.g. tpw.csv).

Server to upload PeoplesWeb Feed to
This will default to the Peoples Web server (currently ftp.thepeoplesweb.com). Leave the connection type as Use passive FTP unless you have problems connecting to the server.

The Username and Password are supplied by The Peoples Web when you sign up to the Retail account.

Delivery Costs
The delivery costs are not used by the feed. However, you may decide to include them in your product details (by using !!DeliveryCost!! macro)
The options in this section are used to define the possible shipping costs for each item. There are 3 main categories of delivery options.

            Free Delivery
            No additonal amounts are added to the item’s price.

            Fixed Price Charge
            You always add this amount to each item’s price. You can enter a price at which the delivery is free.

            Calculated Delivery Charge
            The delivery charges are calculated using the settings that you specified within Actinic. You must select a single option for Calculate by, Zone, Class and any Free delivery.

Properties

You can Add, Edit or Amend your properties. When you Add or Edit a property the following dialog is displayed :

Variable

The property type can either be a standard Peoples Web type or you can specify your own (if not in the required format). In the example, a shop is selling items with different categories so the categories are picked up from the product’s Title.

NOTE : If you want to override the default values generated from your Actinic product details you can do this by supplying your own values (fixed or from a CustomVar). You can override the following values by selecting the relevant Standard Variable (in the Variable section). For example,  to use a different image for the product when displayed in The Peoples Web (from your Actinic shop) you would select the Image. You would then define a fixed value or use a CustomVar to get the image to display (for example, http://www.ObeliskHoldings.TV/graphics/house3.gif).

Item Ref
Name of product. This defaults to the product name provided in Actinic.

Product Description
Description of product. This defaults to the main product description defined in Actinic.

Image
Image to use for the product. This defaults to the image defined in Actinic for the product.

Product Link
HTML page to display when the product is clicked on. This defaults to the product page within your Actinic shop.

Value
Cost of the product. This defaults to the calculated price within Actinic.

Additional Information
Description of the product. This defaults to the Actinic product description.

Value

To have the same value for all of your products select the Use Text option. To have a different value for a shop section select Section under Type. To have a different value for each product select Product as Type. If Use CustomVar has been selected you should select a CustomVar (defined within Actinic and values assigned for each product) to retrieve the information from.

If you are using Actinic V8 you would create CustomVars by creating Variables in the Design Library. You would normally create these in the General Group. Also add in a Default value to use for the product. This will be used if a Custom Var hasn’t been used for a product.

Advanced features
If you want to use the values created by the Product Mash in different fields than the default ones you can use the following macros to substitute these values. For example, if you want the Actinic description to appear as the item’s name you should define a fixed value for the title as !!Description!!.

Another example is shown below to include the delivery charges after the main product description.

There are more advanced ways to include information from Actinic (or from different fields). See the Advanced Features section for more details