My mistake I see what you mean now. I'll put it on my list but the whole relation mechanism is based on a relation between the imported record and the document. Which works well since you don't need any relation information stored in the Umbraco document. But in your situation it will get in your way when you want to update already existing content.
You could try to build the CMSImport relation table yourself the format is [DataAdapter][Primary key name][Primary key value] and map those against the documents for now.
Relations will be updated when the content is moved but also only when the record is first imported using CMSImport. Don't know if you can change the parent because it will insert records on that location if it can't find a relation..
Update Records
I was hoping that I could import my products against the parent node with their own unique ID.
But then update them using that unique ID without having to map them to a parent node again. Is this posible?
I Assume you are using the free version? The Pro version allows you to update records and works as you describe.
Best,
Richard
No, I have the licence.
I have these options
Only uncheck this option when you don't have a primary key in your datasource.
Select the column which is related to the primary key of the parent Import
or i could do it from the root, then it asks for location, will it change the location of the node if it already exists?
Ah sorry,
My mistake I see what you mean now. I'll put it on my list but the whole relation mechanism is based on a relation between the imported record and the document. Which works well since you don't need any relation information stored in the Umbraco document. But in your situation it will get in your way when you want to update already existing content.
You could try to build the CMSImport relation table yourself the format is [DataAdapter][Primary key name][Primary key value] and map those against the documents for now.
Best,
Richard
Yes, it orks well on the initial import to organise the data, but you may want to update later without knowing what the parent is.
Thanks
Relations will be updated when the content is moved but also only when the record is first imported using CMSImport. Don't know if you can change the parent because it will insert records on that location if it can't find a relation..
Sorry no easy answer..
ok, will give it a go.
At least it should keep the location of the ones already added.
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