By Drupalace-1 on

I've got the Amazon associate tools module installed ( http://drupal.org/node/18842 ); I have the latest version, it's active, and it's set up with my Amazon associate ID. (There's not a lot in admin/settings/amazon; just settings for Locale, Amazon Associate ID, and Ratings labels.)

So far, so good. But when I create an Amazon node ( node/add/amazon_node ), here's what I see:

I've got a drop-down field for Rating, and a blank field for Related Books (in addition to the usual Drupal fields for authoring, publishing, etc.). That's it. I can input an ASIN for a *related book*, but there's no field to put in an ASIN for the *main book itself*.

So if I put a book ASIN into "Related Book", I get what looks like a "main" entry for that book (image, title with Amazon link, price, etc.), and under that what I assume is meant to be a "related book" entry (same book, with smaller image and title). As I haven't yet successfully made things work, I'm not sure what a proper Amazon node is supposed to look like, but it looks like I'm just getting my "related book" listed as both main and related.

(It's difficult to experiment, as sometimes the node submission hangs, and I get the problem of *hundreds* of identical entries added to the DB (see this issue: http://drupal.org/node/86859 ). But I'll worry about that issue next...)

Next, there's node/add/amazon (not node/add/amazon_node ). I believe that's for an Amazon review node, not Amazon item node. With that, I get pretty much the same entry page, but with a Title field and Body field as well. Yet still, no place to input a title's ASIN; only for "Related Books".

Finally, there's Amazon Import. That seems to work a little... Imported books do appear, as a title and a descriptive blurb, but no image. And no Amazon link, which isn't too helpful. Editing such an imported node shows me a Rating and Related Books field, but again, no main ASIN field or other relevant field. (Yet, somehow, the book title and blurb for that ASIN are being imported.)

Is there anyone who can make sense of all this? I'll be happy to provide feedback here as I work out the problem.

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Drupalace-1 commented

No replies to my post... But I discovered a cause and workaround (if not a real cure), and will share it for anyone else having the problem.

The problem in brief: My "Create Amazon Product" node returned a page allowing input of Amazon product title, but not product ASIN, the product's ID code. I had no real way to tell the node *what product* to display. *Related* product, yes, but the main product itself, no.

Turns out that for me, the problem is in the Amazon content type settings: the "Allow Amazon.com related product link" checkbox. I turned that off, and that made a big difference. My Create Amazon Product node now doesn't offer a field for related product, but it does offer an ASIN field now for the main product itself, which is what's important for now.

I hope this helps someone –

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csc4 commented

Thanks - it helped me!