Hi
I have a new site with several thousand products. I was assuming that I could use csvi to do my import, but apparently (according to their website) they have no plans of publishing a vm2 compatible version.
Is there any way to do a csv import into vm2, or is this version basically dead?
The article below seems to suggest it will be supported. It is certainly very useful in 1.1.x
QuoteSupport for VirtueMart 2 will be added to CSVI once the VirtueMart team has released a stable version to the general public. With the new CSVI 4 release it will be possible to support both VirtueMart 1.1.x and VirtueMart 2, this should be good news for everybody :)
http://www.csvimproved.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=759:looking-forward&catid=1:news
unfortunately right above that it says "Support for Joomla 1.6/1.7 will not be added to CSVI 4.0. The plan is to adapt CSVI for Joomla 1.8 when this is released."
so I guess as far as joomla 1.7 goes having csv import capability will be a no-go
I used phpmyadmin to import some product attributes in open office format the other day with 2.0. It was pretty easy.
that makes sense, if you are good at writing sql queries - but an sql query to import 1k products with descriptions, images etc would be pretty complicated to write would it not?
that is what I use to create the csv files that I import through csvi in joomla 1.5 / vm 1.1 - do you mean I can use phpmyadmin to import a csv file without having to write a query for it?
do the column headings stay the same as they would for a csvi import?
create a product.
THEN, export the product table. Open office spreadsheet format. (column header included)
THEN, paste the new products into the columns of the files you exported.
awesome, I will give it a try
How did you export the product? CSVI?
Thanks.
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any other method or tool for more good import/export data?
There will be soon. CSVI 4 http://www.csvimproved.com/