I have the following requirements for importing products into Umbraco and am hoping I can perform these using CMS Import, so are you able to answer the following for me:
A single product can exist in multiple categories, can this information be imported using CMS Import and if so how would you approach it.
Products can have multiple images, can this be accommodated via a separate EXCEL worksheet and if so how?
Products can have between 1 and 5 different types of option (e.g. Color, Bezel, etc.) and can have different types of each option (e.g. Color - Red, Green, Blue / Bezel - Chrome, Silver, Gold). Can this type of information be imported and if so how would you approach it?
Categories can have related categories, can this information be imported and again if so, how would you approach it?
How are your categories organized? Physical nodes? If that is the case CMSImport can't import those, if it's just a csv field you can import them as csv same as q 3 and 4.
For images you can just specify them as csv and CMSImport will import those when they are on disk and a relative path to the image is specified.
Apologies for the late reply, I have been gathering additional information on the requirements.
Okay if you look at the screenshot below you will see what the layout for a product detail page is going to be. As you can see a product can have multiple variants with each of the variants having multiple options (up to five).
How would you suggest this information be stored so that it can be used by TeaCommerce and importable using CMSImport, or for that matter is it even possible using CMSImport? If not, do you have any suggestions as to the best way of importing and storing the information?
Import Questions
Hello,
I have the following requirements for importing products into Umbraco and am hoping I can perform these using CMS Import, so are you able to answer the following for me:
A single product can exist in multiple categories, can this information be imported using CMS Import and if so how would you approach it.
Products can have multiple images, can this be accommodated via a separate EXCEL worksheet and if so how?
Products can have between 1 and 5 different types of option (e.g. Color, Bezel, etc.) and can have different types of each option (e.g. Color - Red, Green, Blue / Bezel - Chrome, Silver, Gold). Can this type of information be imported and if so how would you approach it?
Categories can have related categories, can this information be imported and again if so, how would you approach it?
Thanks in advance.
Graham
Hi Graham,
How are your categories organized? Physical nodes? If that is the case CMSImport can't import those, if it's just a csv field you can import them as csv same as q 3 and 4.
For images you can just specify them as csv and CMSImport will import those when they are on disk and a relative path to the image is specified.
Best,
Richard
Hi Richard,
Apologies for the late reply, I have been gathering additional information on the requirements.
Okay if you look at the screenshot below you will see what the layout for a product detail page is going to be. As you can see a product can have multiple variants with each of the variants having multiple options (up to five).
How would you suggest this information be stored so that it can be used by TeaCommerce and importable using CMSImport, or for that matter is it even possible using CMSImport? If not, do you have any suggestions as to the best way of importing and storing the information?
Your insight is appreciated as always.
Thanks,
Graham
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