Hi Kyle,

Really nice work on getting this CMSImport stuff working. I'd be REAALY interested to see this when it's all done.

Regarding presets, there really isn't any linkage between the variants and the preset to track, rather presets are just pre-defined filters used by the UI when you create your variant so it will just limit the number of attributes you can pick from. The only linkage a variant has is with the attributes themselves so that's really all you need to worry about.

Looking forward to see how this goes

Matt

Matt, so if I’m understanding correctly as long as I create my stuff with the correct attribute aliases and such everything should line up?

I have been talking with Richard so I think between the experience you two hold I can get this working…

Awesome,

I’ll get started on it and let you know if I come across any hiccups.

I am genuinely surprised no one has traveled down this road prior as it seems like something that could be really useful.

Thanks Matt, I will keep in touch

Matt,

One more thing, if you want the field provider code for a Vendr.Price let me know. It’s fairly generic as I am using a CSV file right now

I’d be happy to provide it.

Matt,

I posted this also over in the CMS Import - Using the API support forum, but here you go.

Like I said it is fairly generic.

1. Put the .cs file in your controllers folder of your solution, obviously make sure it builds and compiles
2. Start an Import in CMS Import
3. The Parse method should get hit by a breakpoint when you put one in the method

You should also be careful to make sure the class inherits from an IFieldProvider so that CMS Import knows what its working with. Hope that makes sense

Here is the Attribute Declaration for the entirety of the class (this tells CMS Import to only fire this when we come across a Price cell from a CSV File) This needs to be the datatype your putting values into, hence Vendr.Price

    [FieldProvider(PropertyEditorAlias = "Vendr.Price")]

Here is the Dependiency Injection of the Umbraco Content Service if needed

    private readonly IContentService _contentService;
    public VendrCurrencyFieldProvider(IContentService contentService)
    {
        _contentService = contentService;
    }

Here is the Parse Method (Responsible for data processing)

public object Parse(object value, ImportPropertyInfo property, FieldProviderOptions fieldProviderOptions)
    {

        //create new decimal to hold value
        var price = new Decimal();

        //if value is blank in your source file (I used CSV) then compensate for that and place a value you
        //would know into the price field so you can either manually change it or account for it in some way
        if (value != null && value.AsString() != "")
        {
            price = Decimal.Parse(value.AsString());
        }
        else
        {
            price = Decimal.Parse("1234.56");
        }

        //create the data structure you need to send the data in
        //in the case of Vendr.Price you need { currencyId guid (found in back office) , price value from source file }
        var data = new Dictionary<string, decimal> {
            { "05c1c00a-fd2d-41f9-b5af-017d7c739f60", price }
        };

        //serialize the data and return the value - done
        return JsonConvert.SerializeObject(data);
    }

Let me know if you need anything else

Matt,

Following up here...I have the raw data formatted and being recieved by CMS Import all the way until it tries to map my Variant Editor block style code to the field...

I wanted to check if this was accurate...

I have a field in umbraco called Product Variants, which is of the Data Type Vendr.VariantsEditor.

Now the way you tell CMS Import to look for a specific field and prepare the data is to use something like this:

[FieldProvider(PropertyEditorAlias = "Vendr.VariantsEditor")]

I have price working in a similar fashion, just cant get the VariantEditor to work as such.

Vendr.VariantsEditor is in fact the correct nomenclature for that field correct?

Thanks

What does changing my alias from “Product Variants” to “Variants” actually do in terms of Vendr?

I’ll change my property alias, to conform, just curious what it does when having that alias?

Is that what you look at to display the variants in the back office?

Thanks.

Matt,

Lol Gave me a good laugh as that’s what I used to see if I needed to name it something specific. I understand why it needs to be that specific, just wasn’t aware to make it that Alias.

It’s all good

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