I have a CSV file that I exported from my old store. It has columns for detailed image and thumbnail. I specified the old images directory during the import, but the images aren’t pulling over. Do I need to specify the full URL to the images? Where did I go wrong?
Second question:
When importing, what should I have in the category column of my file? When I imported with the CS-Cart category ID, a bunch of new categories were created with the category ID as the name. Do I need the CS-Cart category name in there? What if I have two subcategories with the same name under different categories?
OK, I solved the category question through trial and error. Anyone care to step in with an answer for the product images question?
how did you solve it???
Yes- how did you solve that problem. I’m having the same trouble.
~Chalz
[quote name=‘grayloon’]I have a CSV file that I exported from my old store. It has columns for detailed image and thumbnail. I specified the old images directory during the import, but the images aren’t pulling over. Do I need to specify the full URL to the images? Where did I go wrong?[/QUOTE]
You need to upload your images to the /var/www/vhosts/YOURSTORENAME.com/httpdocs/images/backup directory and specify that directory in your import file. The import images feature doesn’t seem to work if you put your images anywhere else even if you specify the different path in your .csv file. Once you have imported your .csv ffile, you will have a copy of the image in your Detailed Images folder and a copy of your thumbnail in your Product Images folder and you can safely delete the images in your Backup folder. Leave your thumbnail column blank for your thumbnails to be automatically created.
[quote name=‘grayloon’]Second question:
When importing, what should I have in the category column of my file? When I imported with the CS-Cart category ID, a bunch of new categories were created with the category ID as the name. Do I need the CS-Cart category name in there? What if I have two subcategories with the same name under different categories?[/QUOTE]
You need to specify the full category name with /// as the divider so if you have the same subcategory name in different categories it won’t matter, i.e. CategoryA///Subcategory1 as opposed to CategoryB///Subcategory1. If your category is not already created before the import, it will be automatically created. You must specify the full path.
Another tip for a successful import is to make sure you have information in every cell of the last column of your .csv file - it doesn’t matter which column is last but it must have something in every cell.
Hope this helps
but can you post with catagorie id??
You don’t use category ID’s at all when importing - you use the category name. Let’s say you have this category structure:
Cars
–Honda
–Toyota
Trucks
–Ford
–Chevy
Products that were assigned to Cars → Honda, would be put into the Category field in the import file as:
Cars|Honda
I hope that makes sense
[quote name=‘grayloon’]
Products that were assigned to Cars → Honda, would be put into the Category field in the import file as:
Cars|Honda
I hope that makes sense[/QUOTE]
But if you are going to use the “|” as the category delimiter you need to specify that in the import page.
The default is /// - i.e. Cars///Honda.