Can I import a duplicate set of products?

[orcharduk]

Hi all,

Is it possible for me to import a duplicate set of products so I can work on the duplicate data before it updating my website. I have a section with 1000s of products under it that I wish to keep intact knowing no updates have been made to it.

Once my new data is formatted and ready to go I can then delete the old section, update the website with the new content and purge the database of the old stuff?

Thanks in advance

[Nadeem]

Hi there

It is possible to import duplicate product from a csv file. You just need to make sure that the duplicate Product Reference must be like in the form of '1!ABC'. Where 1 is the number of the duplicate, ! is the delimiter, and ABC is the original Product Reference.

Kind Regards

[web@ack]

so say for example, i had a product i would like to duplicate 5 time. If the original product code AB123, would i write the codes as

1!AB123
2!AB123
3!AB123
4!AB123
5!AB123

I have tried doing it like this and when i try to do an import, a window pops up asking to auto generate a ref number?

Thanks

[web@ack]

sorted now i think

Just in case other people are wondering, i updated the product dupicate number accordingly and it worked fine ie -

Product Ref            Product Duplicate

1!AB123                 1
2!AB123                 2
3!AB123                 3
4!AB123                 4
5!AB123                 5