Product Import ??

[wilts-ebiz]

Hi All,

not sure if I am searching with the correct words but is there a "How To Guide" for importing products via a CSV file?

I cant seem to find how to do this.

I want to manually enter the products and all details like weights etc and import them straight into the database!!

Any advice gladly accepted.

Cheers

Matt

[RuralWeb]

Try the help file within actinic

[Goz]

There's a good number of posts on the forum about importing data.

Flat file import is a bit basic.

Hierarchical import gives you control over pretty much everything. My advice would be to set up a small number of products and sections in Actinic with all the data filled in that you would want. Then do an export and take a look at that CSV. It will show you how to structure the CSV for importing again.

Beware that carriage return/line feeds get changed to \n (or is it /n?? can't remember). Actinic support advice is to do a global change on the CSV immediately before importing - change all the \n's to !!<<BR>>!!.

HTH

Andy

[NormanRouxel]

There are assorted sample files within the "Common" folder that's in your Site folder.