How to flat file import duplicate products?

[Manic]

Hi,

Ive just spent the best part of an hour trying to find the answer in the manual, advanced manual and searching the forum. I found one post in the developer section that looked as if it might have the answer but I am not privileged enough to read it.

I have two lines im experimenting with containing the same product info but different sections. On import I get a product reference conflict

eg.

"Aromatherapy|Body","After Sports Bath Oil","desc", "stockcode"
"Aromatherapy|Face","After Sports Bath Oil","desc", "stockcode"

So what extra fields do I need to make this work? I cant create different stockcodes, but I have seen duplicate options in actinic so Im thinking there may be a way to do this?

Looking at available fields I figure that 'Original Product Reference' and 'Product Duplicate Index' would likely be involved, but I cant find the infos on how to use them.

Stuck!

[Duncan Rounding]

This was quoted by Bruce of Actinic support in the Developers forum:

Take a look in Help | Help Topics for 'Importing from a Standard Spreadsheet' or Flat File and you should see some information. You an also look at the sample import files that you will find in C:\Program Files\Actinic v7\Sites\Css Theme\Common , and build the Flat file based on the example. Duplicate products will carry a product reference of "1!6" for the first instance and "2!6" for the second instance and so on.

and this was quoted a couple of posts later from the OP:

Got this working.....

For the 'base' product, I used actual product reference and product type '0'.

For duplicates, product type '1', product ref n!.... and original product refernce filled in.

Worked perfectly.