I have to import 4000 products from our old CMS website to the new Magento store. Those products have only name/title/description/price.
In the Magento shop all products will have many different attributes. I want to assign corresponding attributes to products later.
I made already a CSV template with the right columns.
My question is: Is is possible to import all products without any attributes and after import add attributes and attribute sets programmatically?
I'm wondering how to deal with this situation ??
Thank you in advance.
Best regards,
Anna
You must always define the attribute set when you are creating the product. The attribute set is describing which attributes are assigned to the product. Take a look into MAGMI. This tool is much faster and flexible that the default Magento importer.
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i try to find any information in the Magmi Wiki pages, but still nothing help to solve some problem. I succesfully imported about 3000 SKUs with Category. But for SEO I nedd to put into all Category Descriptions. My question is that possible to import Category Description task with Magmi? If yes, which rows I must define in the flat files?
For all your questions thanks in Advance.
Basically Magmi do not have that function, you can follow up magento modules page, if will be module wit that function released:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/magmi/files/magmi-0.7/plugins/packages/
Magmi will only import products. There are add on functions that will create categories and attributes on the fly, but that's as far as it will go on non-product items.
For mass updates to category information, if you look around you should be able to find extensions in Magento Connect that may do the trick or you could write your own import based on this Sonassi example.
Good Luck
I am currently using magmi to import products and I am unclear on how the importer works with configurable products and simple product relationships. Currently you can associate configurble products with simple products by setting the simple_skus filed in the CSV file.
My question is how does magmi handle changes to this field? If there is an SKU removed form the list of simple sku's is the assication removed? Will magmi add an assiocation when there is a new SKU detected?
Magmi removes all previous associations then applies the new value for the simples that are to be associated with a given configurable.
See Source Code for configurable plugin , line 62 + (method dolink)
In Magento Community Ed., my structure of products is such that there are a set of 100 attributes that some products are assigned to and some are not. These attributes values are common to all products. So if Product A has attribute X with value 360, if Product B has that attribute, its value will also be 360. Now these attribute values would need to be updated every hour or so. Is there a way that I can update these at the back end in one csv/excel file and the changes apply to all products that have subscribed to this attribute?
Also, is there a way to create attributes for categories ?
Yes, you can create and use your own import in Magento. You find the module using System Menu ~ Import/Export ~ Import.
Oh, and refer to this question for Attributes on a Category
Good luck!
I sell Pet Supplies. My distributor provides me with a CVS file with all the nessacrty information for me to upload it to my website. I currently upload it as a simple product. But I would like it to be more user friendly. I am using Magento Community 1.7. I have tried messing with the configurable products but this is not possible for the upload I use.
Example: A Dog Cage comes in different sizes. Currently it shows as simple products and shows 5 different sizes. I would like it to show like all the bigger named stores. Basically show a dropdown with the different options. I tried creating a configurable product and associate the products I uploaded as a simple product but this method will not work. Any other ideas of what I can do? I want my customers to be able to click:
iCrate Double Door and have the options 18x24....24x30 etc. How do the other companies get them listed like this?
You are doing the right thing - configurable products will give you what you want to achieve.
You need to install the Magmi configurable product plugin. You also need to set your csv up so the simple products come first, then the configurable. To automatically associate the simple product with the parent configurable on import you need an extra column specifying the configurable attribute (see the Magmi docs) and the skus need set up so the simple skus are extended versions of the configurable's sku. Again, the Magmi wiki on configurables will explain more.
You could also amend your grouped products to do similar and provide the list as a dropdown
check out this thread
http://www.magentocommerce.com/boards/viewthread/208482/#t297046
I have a custom script that takes data form an XML and loads in the products.
The main problem, is that these products do display on the frontend.
The only way they do, is if i go into the admin and open the product and then save it.
I noticed that once i did this, an entry was added into the table 'catalog_product_flat_1'.
Is there a way to either display these imported products or add them to the 'catalog_product_flat_1' table without having to save each product?
I am using Magento v1.4.2
Thanks
Try to go to Index Management and do the Product Flat Data reindexing. Also, do you have one-store or multi-store system? If its the later see what is set under the Websites for each product.
i had also same problem. it was not showing product after re indexing. but after adding this two field in CSV
1)_root_category = Default Category
and
2)_product_websites = base
i import CSV. it solve problem and start displays product in store.