Deleting products

Sometimes you need to delete existing products or parts of a product, or you want to make sure any existing information is removed and not merged with the new information. Below we describe the different approaches you can use to solve this.

Deleting a text field

You delete a product field by simply assigning it as an empty field.

Lets say we want to delete the infoshort field we added in Adding a new text field. We can do that by sending the following xml:

<mediablob customerID="1143" customerIDType="ShoppaID" createDate="2018-05-12T00:00:00" schemaVersion="1.7" xmlns="http://shoppa.com/mediablobSchema">
  <products>
    <product id="65467-14" idType="Code1">
    <texts>
        <text languageCode="en-GB">
            <field name="infoshort" />
        </text>
    </texts>
    </product>
  </products>
</mediablob>

Note however that in case this product was overloaded from another customer node, the original text will now be visible again. If you actually want the field to be empty, regardless of what has been defined at a higher level, you need to write an empty space to the field, like this:

<mediablob customerID="1143" customerIDType="ShoppaID" createDate="2018-05-12T00:00:00" schemaVersion="1.7" xmlns="http://shoppa.com/mediablobSchema">
  <products>
    <product id="65467-14" idType="Code1">
    <texts>
        <text languageCode="en-GB">
            <field name="infoshort"> </field>
        </text>
    </texts>
    </product>
  </products>
</mediablob>

The space inside the field content is mandatory here. If the field is empty the original content will be visible again.

Deleting language support

To remove an entire language from our example product, we add a <text/> section with the attribute delete="true":

<mediablob customerID="1143" customerIDType="ShoppaID" createDate="2018-05-12T00:00:00" schemaVersion="1.7" xmlns="http://shoppa.com/mediablobSchema">
  <products>
    <product id="65467-14" idType="Code1">
    <texts>
        <text languageCode="en-GB" delete="true" />
    </texts>
    </product>
  </products>
</mediablob>

There is no reason to add text fields to a deleted <text /> section since the import will simply ignore them.

Replacing all texts for a language

If you want to replace all texts for a specific language and make sure there are no legacy fields left behind, you need to write a delete-section followed by the new <text /> section:

<mediablob customerID="1143" customerIDType="ShoppaID" createDate="2018-05-12T00:00:00" schemaVersion="1.7" xmlns="http://shoppa.com/mediablobSchema">
  <products>
    <product id="65467-14" idType="Code1">
    <texts>
        <text languageCode="en-GB" delete="true" />
        <text languageCode="en-GB" productName="Champagne glass" brand="Orrefors">
            <field name="sashort">Exclusive Twin-pack, the perfect wedding gift.</field>
        </text>
    </texts>
    </product>
  </products>
</mediablob>

Make sure the delete comes first, or your newly added texts will be deleted too!

Deleting an entire product

Sometimes you want to delete an entire product, with all texts, codes and picture references. This is done with the following xml:

<mediablob customerID="1143" customerIDType="ShoppaID" createDate="2018-05-12T00:00:00" schemaVersion="1.7" xmlns="http://shoppa.com/mediablobSchema">
  <products>
    <product id="65467-14" idType="Code1" delete="true" />
  </products>
</mediablob>

As before, if the product is owned by another customer, the product will still be visible with its original content.