Hello Basara
Is there not another way to do this because we have over 1400 products and each product contains al least 4 images so you do the maths there. If there is no other way where we can point the image url to our suppliers site from within the CSV file then it cannot work because we don't have the product images in a zip file but only in the CSV file itself.
If there is no other solution to this issue then i am afraid i may have to go back to prestashop or opencart which i don't want to do since i bought some of your other mods today for my site to support you guys?
Thanks
Hello. I am agree with You: images URL support will be much faster.
Hope this will be added to AbanteCart roadmap.But still you can try to import images with CSV
1. Create one product in AbanteCart with all needed filled data (3-4 images, prices, names, descriptions.... etc)
2. Export this product in CSV
3. Use this product as example and fill data for all your products (Note: skip 'product_id' column if no id system will insert products as new)
4. For images:
a. download your images (a lot of free tools for this I use 'Download Master' - when You copy URLs in Excel (Ctrl+C in Windows OS) and open Download master it ask you to confirm download all of them in few clicks)
b. upload downloaded images via FTP to some folder on new server like ..../resources/image/somefolder/
c. in CSV file you need to update image path to resource easy way is 'search and replace'
for example you have 3000 products with similar image URLs like
http:// www .abantecart.com/templates/abantecart/images/product2image1.png
http:// www .abantecart.com/templates/abantecart/images/product2image2.png
http:// www .abantecart.com/templates/abantecart/images/product2image3.png
http:// www .abantecart.com/templates/abantecart/images/product3image1.png
.......
so You need to search for 'http:// www .abantecart.com/templates/abantecart/images/' and replace with '/resources/image/somefolder/'
this action in few sec covert all http:// www .abantecart.com/templates/abantecart/images/product2image1.png to /resources/image/somefolder/product2image1.png
Please BACKUP your AbanteCart database before import