I'm working on a client site where the description is only sometimes provided in the data feed, other times the data feed has an empty value for the description and it's entered manually. Currently the issue I'm seeing is that, when importing, Magmi will replace any manually entered descriptions with the blank field provided with the data field
Is there a way to tell Magmi not to overwrite an attribute if the value in the CSV is blank so that it doesn't delete manually entered data?
In a lot of field types, Magmi will treat a blank value as a 'do not update'.
Text fields will update verbatum though, so Magmi has an answer for this - replace your blank description fields with;
__MAGMI_IGNORE__
And Magmi will treat that field as though it werent in the data for that particular line item.
Example here on the Magmi Wiki http://wiki.magmi.org/index.php?title=MAGMI_IGNORE
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Hi i have found some video and text on how to do this but they dont help with this task.
I know how to get one values but not extract a table.
I want this to get exported into a database if possible or a Excel. But i cant figure it out.
I have even tryed change the "Change reading opption"
I tryed to "data scraping" but the program just say
"This controler does not support data extraction"
And it can't be more of a table then this.
I have heard that it cant be because the structure of the PDF is bad.
Still isn't there more ways of doing this.
Unfortunately, there is no activity in UiPath to read tables directly from PDFs. (As of today.) That was the bad news. The good news is that you can get to the contents of the PDF. Either you get the data (as flat text) directly with UiPath.PDF.Activities.ReadPDFText or you have to use OCR.
#kwoxer provided a wonderful link for explanations on this topic.
I have already been able to extract data from tables contained in a PDF document. At that time, I was lucky: ReadPDFText extracted everything. The table elements were separated by tabs ("\t"). And the table header contained a word that did not appear elsewhere in the document.
Just as an idea, I proceeded like this:
Extract text from the PDF document with UiPath.PDF.Activities.ReadPDFText.
Create an array, where the elements are the lines in the document. (Split using Environment.NewLine and option StringSplitOptions.RemoveEmptyEntries)
Go through lines in a loop (ForEach) until the table header is found. (StartsWith or Contains etc.)
The next row belongs to the table as long as it contains a tab. (Otherwise the table is over.)
Split current row by tab and store it in an array: The elements of the array are the individual cells of the row.
I hope, this idea help.
Within the data load wizard that comes with APEX 18.1, after you choose your csv file to be uploaded you are offered a "TARGET COLUMN" drop down LOV which defaults to "DO NOT LOAD". It is possible to tell APEX which values you want in this LOV. I have done this.
My issue is, that this is quite laborious. Your users will not necessarily know which value you want them to pick from the LOV to map the related column when they are using a csv file with no header. As they are going to be doing.
Does anyone know how to change the "DO NOT LOAD" value in the LOV to another value? If I could get it to default to a column of my choosing, this would be great. Alternatively, there's a "SOURCE COLUMN" field in the wizard.
Getting the "SOURCE COLUMN" field to denote which column I wish users to map to the LOV value would be something also. Has anyone faced this before? Does anyone know if it is possible to do what I am suggesting as a work around? Thanks for looking and for your thoughts.
APEX does the column mapping automatically by checking the name of the column in the csv(the first row is names usually).
So if the names of the columns match in the table and the csv, it will connect them by itself. What you can also do is set column aliases.
If you want to edit the existing data load, you can go to Shared Components- Data Load definitions and pick the one you are using in there.
Then you can set column aliases there. But afaik you can only do one alias per column there.
I'm running some JMeter tests for editing a field. If I use the JMeter HTTP(S) Test Script Recorder, I can get an accurate representation of the page and edits I made.
It creates a HTTP POST request with a parameter for every field, checkbox and dropdown on the page. I only really care about modifying ONE of them.
My problem is I can't just remove all the other parameters from the POST data because the page interprets this as if I removed all of them from the page (and then complains that there's missing data). So I'm left with trying to obtain the current values for the remaining editable fields and checkboxes so that I can re-submit them when I only want to modify a single field.
For an example, imagine I'm submitting some user data with fields for Name, Email and Address. I want to change the name by adding a 1 to the end of it and leave the other two fields as they are.
My thoughts for accomplishing this:
1) Use XPath to try to get the values shown on the page, store them all in variables and re-submit them in the post request. This is messy and also very difficult as the page is shown in a pop-up window, adding to the complexity of it.
2) Query the database for all the information and re-submit it. Seems like a lot of overhead, plus the data isn't freely available .. I'd rather not have to try to do this.
3) Use some other element of JMeter I'm not aware of to obtain the specific element data from the page. Maybe some listener I haven't figured out yet? If I could pull the parameters from the page and save them, that would be VERY convenient.
4) Somehow submit a POST request with only one field, specifying that I do not wish to clear out the remaining fields, I just want to leave them alone. I will freely admit that I am not super familiar with web applications so there may be a very obvious reason as to why this can't be done (or it's dependent on how its handled by the back-end of the application).
Thoughts?
From the whole post, I understand that you want to parameterise a field, where each time different value will be passed.
If my understanding is correct, the answer lies in CSV Dataset Config, where you can pass the values from a CSV file.
From your Example:
For an example, imagine I'm submitting some user data with fields for
Name, Email and Address. I want to change the name by adding a 1 to
the end of it and leave the other two fields as they are
To achieve this:
Steps to follows:
Create a csv file. fill the names as follows:
names
name1
name2
name3
name4
names is the column header and remaining are values.
Add CSV Dataset Config to your Test Plan.
Specify the file path.
replace the value in the name field in HTTP Post request as ${names}. that's it.
I just imported over 20k items into magento.
The original data was from an access DB.
In the descriptions, all the " are showing as �
for example, the original description reads:
This arrangement is approx. 32" - 34" tall.
on the magento front-end it now reads:
This arrangement is approx. 32�-34� tall.
Reimporting the data is not an option.... I need to be able to either have this shown correctly in magento front-end using a hack or somehow replace all these characters with the proper characters in MySQL database, or somehow change the encoding...
Any suggestions would be appreciated.
Hi You need to save csv in utf-8 format before import
I ended up exporting all the descriptions, did a find/replace in notepad, saved it as utf-8. and re-imported them back in after other methods failed.
This wasn't what i wanted to go through again but i had no choice.
I have installed and made some successful product imports in to Magento using Magmi, but as soon as I try to import any data where the spreedsheet columns have commas [,] Magmi will not perform the import.
For example when I save the data in this speadsheet as a CSV file Magmi successfully imports the data;
http://i.imgur.com/PpDt0PS.png
However, Magmi refuses to import the data in the table below, where you can see in column F I have added data that include 'commas'.
http://i.imgur.com/MtGJPCw.png
Can anyone advise. I am using an Apple Mac with OpenOffice to prepare and save my data.
Is the data not importing entirely, or is just the visibility column not being set?
Visibility is a Magento core attribute which Magmi can set by using exact numerical option id value.
Generally, the option values you want to use for the visibility field are as follows:
Not Visible Individually = 1
Catalog = 2
Search = 3
Catalog, Search = 4
So in your case, if you want to set these products to Catalog, Search, you can set the visibility column value to 4.
To double-check that the above mapping is correct for your instance of Magento, the easiest way is as follows:
Go edit any product
Look for the Visibility drop down field, and right click > inspect element
In the developer tools, take note the values associated to each label.
Below an example of the process and what to look for.
Axel is correct, you should set the data to the numerical value 4.
But I do also recommend you explore a better way to export CSV content from Open Office. You may have to start a new document because I find I only see the dialogue below once and then I never see it again. Create a new document, paste your data into it. Choose save-as, select CSV, and save it. Eventually you should see the dialogue below. Change the encoding to UTF 8, the text delimiter to " and tick the 'Quote all text cells' box.
Then you should be able to have any cells with commas or other things in them. Always ensure you CSV files are quoted. "like","this","so you, can","have commas, in them". It is worth inspecting your CSV file in a text editor to see the format is as expected before uploading it to MAGMI.