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I'm going to describe what I did so others will know how it is done.
I created the custom filter through trial-and-error testing in the Active Content Sandbox tool until I got the results I wanted across several different test listings. Within its custom filter area, the Sandbox tool has the ability to capture the coded filters in a string format. If I want, I can append that string to the URL of the Sandbox tool, which turns the URL into a link I can share with others to prepopulate the settings in the Sandbox tool. But the same captured settings, even the entire URL of the sandbox tool, can be applied over on the Active Content Editor.
So this is the link to the Sandbox tool that is prepopulated with the filters I prepared for you (all that extra unintelligible code tacked to the end).
http://www.isdntek.com/ebaytools/ActiveContentSandbox.htm?itm=332730444307&act=true&lnk=true&eby=true&ssl=true&is=false&vp=false&widget=&filter=%253C%252Fstyle%7C%253E%7C%2520ul%2520%257Btext-align%253Aleft%253B%2520width%253A50%2525%253B%2520margin%253Aauto%253B%2520padding-left%253A1em%253B%2520%257D%253C%252Fstyle%253E%2Ctarget%253D%2522%2520_blank%2522%253D%2522%2522%7C%7C%2522%2520target%253D%2522_blank%2522
So now we look at the Editor tool. I took that same URL string and pasted it into the "Enter saved job settings" on the first page of the three-page Active Content Editor. When I clicked "Populate" to apply those filters within the Editor, I expected them to generally match those I had prepared in the Sandbox tool (easy enough to click over to page 2 to verify), and they did.
After prepopulating the filters, I entered your username and chose US as the country and clicked the button to "Get eBay Items" on Page 1. When the listing numbers were retrieved from eBay, the tool automatically switched to Page 2, where the filters are located. I verified the filters, turned off some of the automatic ones we no longer needed (we've already done the active content stuff), and started the scan.
When the scan finished and showed me Page 3, I scrolled down and opened the section entitled "Description Spreadsheets for File Exchange" and clicked the buttons to generate these two files:
As before, there is an original to archive
and the revision file to unzip and upload
There is no harm in processing all of the Editor steps above on your own if you want because the tool does not touch your listings and the zips we want to use are already captured above. Any resulting new zips should provide identical info as long as the settings are all the same.
This took us through to instruction #6 on the tutorial page where you last began the upload process.
@dollybeauty I noticed that the File Exchange logo did not appear in the revised listings after the first run, even though I added the File Exchange innoculation. This might be site-specific, since UK doesn't appy the logo on revision. @maximum_suspension Did you upload your revision files on the US or CA File Exchange management screen?
