I have mostly worked out the details for creating a CSV for importing into GS (v8.3.6). I’m glad to see there are now many input mapping fields now possible (in contradiction to any GS help files I can find). It all seems to work very well but I’m confused about some things:
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For Attributes that can have more than one possibility, e.g. “Material”, how do I enter that data in the spreadsheet? When I look at an export of a current listing that has several materials all shown as different rows in the normal listing’s Attributes section, I see “Material:Stainless Steel;Brass;ABS/Plastic;Metal” - but if I import that format back into GS it all just comes in on one row (including the word “Material:”. At one point I was also seeing that whole line surround by speech marks (") - not sure what that means and I also saw it happening to the product title a couple of times?
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Regarding the Attributes (Item Specifics) selection upon import, I have column headers in the CSV set to what I want the “Attribute Name” to be called, e.g. Material or Colour, but then I have to manually type them in again in the import window. Is there anyway to populate this via the CSV data import?
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For each Attribute I have to have an extra column in the spreadsheet, I assume this is correct/as intended though it would be easier to view and edit if it followed the format as I see in the GS CSV exports where several attributes are all on different rows per cell (and each row has each sub-attribute separated by a semi-colon - is this not possible?
I’ve managed to do the image imports from local files, that seems to work well but again it’s all in different spreadsheet columns - my spreadsheet is geting very-very wide and unweildly.
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I’m not sure if this is a bug, but when I do a test import of three items when testing the Materails attributes to see if I can get more than one sub-material name showing, at first when viewing item 1, the attribute in the listing does not show the +box to add more (just one line shows and no box), I then go to item 2 and see the +box, then going back to item 1 and the +box then shows.
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I have hunted the help files and forum for better details on the CSV import but can’t find anything detailed, just old details it seems. The pop-ups that explain the Attribute adding (and other items) in the import dialogue sort of help but make me wonder what I should be doing when they specify “You can use multiple ‘customSpecific’ elements to add a list of custom specifics (item attributes) to your listing. Each element must have a ‘specificName’ and a’specificValue’ child element” - I am at a loss to know what that really means or what to do with that information - I tried entering things like that in my spreadsheet but nothing seemed to work but I’m guessing it may help with getting the problems listed above sorted out?
NB: I am not using the CSV import for “inventory items” just for standard listings (in case it makes a difference).
Many thanks.