automating imports

[neddy]

Please can I have some advice on the following issue –

The site I am working on has products that appear in 5 o 6 different SECTIONS and I am populating it by importing a flat file with the products duplicated and it all works fine except that it seems a rather laborious way of doing it (300 lines becomes 1800) and as the site updates four times a year I wondered if there was an easier way to do this?

Is there a way for example that I could check each of the possible 10 sections the product could appear in within the flat file or is there some other way to automate the process?

Thanks

[Jan]

Once the duplicates have been set up you should only need to import the main products, so long as you have set up the duplicates to use the same info as the main products (you won't be able to edit these in product dialog for the duplicates if you have it set up like this - it's the default).

This might not work if you have autogenerate product references switched on, so if you have that switched on, switch it off and add the product references for the main products to the file.

Regards,

[neddy]

imports

Thanks Jan.