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Feed rules: How to use Text Replacement

Sarah B
Sarah B
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Text replacement rules in GoDataFeed allow you to modify feed data by replacing or removing specific text values in product fields. This is useful for cleaning data, ensuring ad compliance, and standardizing formatting before submission to channels like Google Shopping or Meta.

How to Create a Text Replacement Rule

  1. In your feed's Rules page, click the blue + button to create a new rule.
  2. Name your rule appropriately.
  3. Create a custom rule using the following format:
    • SET: [F].[description]
    • TO: [P].[description]
    • WHERE: [P].[description] is not empty
  4. Click 0 replacements to open the text replacement editor.

Open text replacement editor in rule setup

  1. Enter the text you want to replace in the Find value field.
  2. Enter the value to replace it with in the Replace value field.
    Tip: To remove a value entirely, leave the Replace value field blank.
  3. Click the blue checkmark icon to apply the replacement.

Apply replacement rule in rule builder

  1. Click the blue Save button to save the complete rule.

Save feed rule with text replacement

Common Text Replacement Examples

Here are common use cases where text replacement is helpful:

Field Find Replace With Use Case
title tee T-shirt Normalize shorthand product naming
description Buy Now! (leave blank) Remove promotional call-to-action
title Free Shipping (leave blank) Strip non-compliant marketing phrases
description Limited Time Offer (leave blank) Remove urgency-based copy
title w/ with Expand abbreviations
description !, !!, !!! (leave blank) Clean up excessive punctuation
color multi-color Multicolor Standardize attribute values
material Cotton 100% Cotton Enhance description detail
description <span style="font-weight:bold;"> (leave blank) Remove inline formatting
description </span> (leave blank) Remove closing tag
description <br> or <br /> (leave blank) Remove line breaks

 

Dynamic Guide

Need Help?

If you need assistance creating a text replacement rule, contact our support team with affected SKUs and screenshots:

Open a Support Ticket

 

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