Is there no way to import products?

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  1. guy1

    guy1 Member

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    Hi guys


    Is there no way to import products?


    I have a lot to do and the manual web method is tedious.


    Thanks
  2. skippybosco

    skippybosco CGI-Central Partner Staff Member

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    How many products do you have?

    You can do a direct import into the dB by cloning an existing row from the products table.
  3. guy1

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    Less than one hundred but i suspect I will want to do subtle adjustments over the first six months of this new project and really don't fancy going into all the products one by one to do small adjustments you see.

    So the only way is by working with the db itself not via the amember import / export then. Crikey...
  4. skippybosco

    skippybosco CGI-Central Partner Staff Member

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    Could certainly be built into a plugin to manage that, but I don't see a lot of admins managing products in bulk which I suspect is why there has not been much movement on an import / export feature for it.

    Depending on what the small changes are you are wanting to make, dB may be a quicker solution for you anyway as you can do bulk search/replaces directly, skipping the export / import process.
  5. guy1

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    Cheers SkippyBosco, I have a fair few products to do and was hoping to avoid lots of web antics as I am used to csv importing in x-cart that makes mass product creation much easier but I see your point about why it hasnt been developed with Amember.

    Thanks

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