I'm trying to update the inventory with more information on clothing sizes, material composition etc. by uploading the appropriate inventory file. Now, the template table that I got from here has loads and loads of required columns such as country_of_origin and target_gender that I need to fill out, as well as main_image_url. I'm not sure what to enter there, as the existing images are just fine.
After researching (see below), I'd like to know if I need to go through the trouble of somehow downloading and uploading all of the product images just for the sake of the inventory table, or if there is any other way to create an inventory file that will not mess up the product information.
Or am I maybe misguided in the way that I am trying to do the product updates?
Thanks for any help!
My Research
Can I just leave the field blank even though it is a required field?
On this Amazon help page, it says to include every piece of information for existing products into the table even it might seem redundant. Whether that is a recommendation or an absolute requirement, I cannot tell.
Is there an efficient way to retrieve all of the main image URLs for existing products?
Apparently, it is not possible to download the main_image_url in a inventory report like I did with most other required product data columns.
As our products are imported to Amazon by a Shopify app, we do not have all of the product images saved on a server by product ID or anything like that.
According to this StackOverflow answer, there are API calls for retrieving product images by ASIN, but those are scaled down, I cannot use those.
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The product uploading feature will be automated, so all you need to do is enter a product link through the back-end itself and that then add the product photo and description during the night preferably
Please let us know its possible in Magento
IMHO, the best way to achieve that is to create a csv uploader in the backend like you can find in Mage_ImportExport_Adminhtml_ImportController (the whole module can be source of inspiration). The csv feeds a special table that you create with during your module initialization. At the end, with a cron, at the desired time you check this table for the url and then retrieve the photo and description using curl or something similar.
Side considerations :
If you have a large amount of products to inject, you will prefer direct sql queries than the slow Magento ORM
Do not forget to deactivate the indexation during import process
If you need to update and references are different between your source and your Magento, create a special attribute to be sure to have a link between both
If you feel more confortable with other framework or language and you need to create a large amount of data, the importation process can be done with any language able to interact with mysql.
I have an e-commerce site that provides made-to-order clothing. I've created a configurable product and just one associated product.
Is it possible to display all of the possible attribute combinations within just one associated product rather than manually add every combination?
I've tried allowing out of stock products to be displayed, but this didn't show all of the possible combinations.
I'm not hugely experienced with Magento, but I've used many CMS systems and inventory management products. I've never once seen a matrix / configurable / multi-variation / whatever you want to call it setup where you didn't have to create each combination as a distinct SKU. I'm not saying it's 100% impossible, but I'd view it as extremely unlikely and probably a waste of time to pursue.
Why not just create your configurable products and their sub SKUs via CSV import? It will be far easier and faster than creating them one at a time. Creating every combination will also be extremely easy. If you're not comfortable with Excel, you need to correct that yesterday if you want to be good at product management.
See this article:
https://www.siteground.com/tutorials/magento/import-products.htm
In my magento application i want to create a module which is for adding FAQ for a individual product. So while adding the FAQ, in the new tab i want to show the list of all products(like product listing) for which product we want to add FAQ.
So please help me how to customize for getting list of products and display in the new tab?
The question is too broad friend. So don't hope any full solution here. That is because, this question is related to an external extension. But you will get guidance here. Here you may need to do following things.
I think in admin, the extension provides provision to manage each individual faque. What you need to do is, you need to create an extra field that will relate that faq with a product or multiple products.
If you set up this, you need to store this information in database. So for each faq, there may be a product id or multiple product ids related to it
Now you need to create a new block for your extension. This block will filter faqs that related to a particular product.
Next step is add above block in layout. Layout handle you need to use here is catalog_product_view.
Create a new template for your custom block and in that template file, you need to put design codes. You can create this template with the help of current template that this extension uses. That way, you can reduce a lot of time for creating the design.
Hope that helps !
I am working on a custom Magento module to enter Composer information (name, bio, birth, death, etc.) and associate products (songs) with the composer. The module contains two tabs, one for the general info and the other for a list of the products (songs). The association should work exactly as the functionality of Related Products, Up-sells, and Cross-sells in the Product editing page. I feel like I've been running around in circles on a few points in regards to paging through the available songs and selecting and saving the entries. It's mainly dealing with the Grid Serialization. I've looked through as many resources as I can find, including several tutorials, without any luck:
http://magebase.com/magento-tutorials/understanding-the-grid-serializer-block/
I've posted the relevant files at this Gist and would appreciate any feedback or discussion. The files have a lot of material commented out from trying various solutions but they may prove useful in terms of thought process. Certainly available to post any other files that may be relevant.
I think this answer is exactly what you need. I know that single link answers are not very appreciated but the answer is kind of long to replicate in here.
You can also use this module creator to create you module (also available on magento connect). It has an UI that let's you create the modules in a similar way with how you create a table using phpMyAdmin. For each entity you create in your module you have the ability to say "Link many to many with products". This will create the the relation table between products and your entity and the second tab in the admin where you can choose products that are associated with your entity. Exactly like the products in the categories or like related products.
I admit that I'm the developer of the extension, but this should not be considered as spam since the extension is free and I get no profit out of it.
I am trying to import products using Magento 1.7 in built import/export dataflow profile function
So far I can import products details and multiple images as per this tutorial.
But problem here is I am not able to maintain store view and image sort order together.
How I can format CSV so that I can control image sort order and store view?
in short what is magento field name for image sort order?
( options tried but failed: position, image_position, media_gallery_position, gallery_position, gallery_position )
Scenario is:
We have three images per product out of which one image should have first sort order and store view thumbnail, small, base image active ie. this image should use as primary image of product and other two are just inner images only for display purpose on product page.
Magento importing exporting are always quirky problems. as far as I know for 1.7, there aren't much options.
http://devjuhong.com/web/magento-import-products-using-csv/
Check out above page it's pointing that problem too.
Store Manager for Magento does a pretty good job at importing products. For say a 100 products it takes a minute or two which includes time for RE-INDEXING product data. Benefits include -
Nice UI to deal with attributes, attribute sets, categories and products.
Provides column mapping functionality for CSV.
XLS/XLSX files are supported which is a nice touch since a lot of developers use functions to auto fill columns.
Connection manager can handle multiple database connections.
There are many more features. Above are just a subset of what I had tried.