Importing flat file.

[SSIT]

Hi all,

I have a bit of a dilema.
I am moving from Ecommerce product to Actinic and I have run into a little problem.
I have over 20K products that I want to import into Actinic.

I have been importing test data and I need to have (external) website links so I am going to use the [LINK] process. (Changing 2058 to <A HREF = %s TARGET="_blank" dummy="%s">%s</A>)

Problem is;

1. What is the import actinic map field for Advanced link URL ?
2. Why when I import Full Description with [LINK] embedded it fails to work1 unless I edit the Full Description with a space and apply?

1 My Full description is displayed as Manufacturer Number : [LINK] and not Manufacturer Number : 123456. I need to put a space and apply for the Manufacturer Number : 123456 to be displayed.
I can press space and delete then apply to achive the Manufacturer Number : 123456 result. It is as if I need to amend the Full Details for it to apply the [LINK] code?

Any help would be great.

Regards and thanks.

Dave

[SSIT]

Fixed problem 1

Hi.

If you ever had the first problem this is how you import data with a Advanced Link / URL [LINK]

Link type = 0
Link ID = your url path i.e http://www.google.com

Now I just have to figure out this [LINK] problem of having to edit the "Full Description" box with a space and Apply!
Unless this is a bug?

Hope someone can assist?

Regards and thanks.

Dave

[SSIT]

Ahh

Hair is starting to fall out!

Anyone had this problem ? (perhaps doing a site export/import ?)

Dave

[Nadeem]

Hi Dave,

I'm looking into this issue. This might be a bug, as Actinic is trying the word [LINK] as text only and not changing it. I'm passing this to the development team and will let you know.

Kind Regards

[Nadeem]

Hi Dave,

Just to let you know, that this is a bug within the software, and is due to be fixed in a future release.

Kind Regards

[SSIT]

Ok!

Cheers

Not to worry - good old work arounds will prevail

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