Import CSV from VM

[castigous]

Hi!

Our old webshop used Joomla-VirtueMart so we are naturally trying to import the data from it to our new AbanteCart store.

Since this is not one of the software supported by the Migration Tool I think we could use a joomla extension that we have tha can export all VM fields in a CSV file.

But in order to do that I think we would need to know in what are the fields required and if there is a need of fields translations (for example product in VM should be imported as product_name in AbanteCart), and which format should the CSV have (like header, delimiters, etc)

Any guidance would be very appreciated!

Thanks!

[Basara]

Hi. Check example files from here http://docs.abantecart.com/pages/tools/import.html

[castigous]

Thanks a lot!!

This page is very detailed and is a great reference, which I know I´m using in tee export stage.

But I have some custom variables for all product (like say for example color, material, etc). How could I map this variables to something that AbanteCart would understand?

Also for all those variables with a possible value of ON/OFF (for example "Requires Shipping" which I guess is named "products.ship_individually" in the database), I would guess that they should have a value of 1(ON) or 0(OFF).
But in one of example csv file, I see values of "0.0000" for this variable. What would be the correct value to import?

Also for the variables ended with a "class_id" (for example "products.tax_class_id"), should I include this variable on a column in the CSV file? If that´s correct how can I know or discover what value should I assign to them?

Thanks!

[Basara]

Hello.

It is very easy how to check. Create one product with settings and values you are interesting than export and see what is the correct values you have to use.

Note: some CSV editors may automaticly convert correct value to something another, for example Excell like to convert number to date format  so make sure your CSV editor do not "help" you

[castigous]

Hi!

Thanks for your answer but still having issues.

I figured that to insert the products I have to import the manufacturers first, because to insert the products the list of manufacturers must be set up already --also as a test of importing a smaller CSV with just one variable.

So I downloaded all CSV files on the documentation link, opened the one that is about inserting manufacturers and followed all settings within the documentation page.

At some attempts I got some errors but finally I got a message:

Total loaded: 110. Updated: 0. Created: 110. Errors: 0

But if I go to Catalog->Manufacturers on AbanteCart I still see no changes. I see the list of manufacturers that the installation of AC creates (Gucci,Bvlgari...).

Is it a cache issue or maybe some permissions somewhere?

I attach the 2 CSV files (with and without quoted text) that gave me the message I mentioned which seemed to indicate all was alright.

EDIT: I don't see the attached files without being logged in, so next I put the first 5 lines for each file I attempted with:

1- manufacturers_export_2.csv:

action   manufacturers.manufacturer_id
insert   2k Games
insert   2k Sports
insert   505 Games
insert   Activision
...

2- manufacturers_export_2_noquotedtext.csv:

action   manufacturers.manufacturer_id
insert   "2k Games"
insert   "2k Sports"
insert   "505 Games"
insert   "Activision"
...

Any suggestion(s) are *very* appreciated, especially because the CSV file for products is going to be much longer and if I´m stuck with this, I don´t wanna imagine when working that products list.

Also for this question I made before:

I have some custom variables for all product (like say for example color, material, etc). How could I map this variables to something that AbanteCart would understand?

I can't export a csv from AC with these custom variables as so far there is no product that has this custom variables, which begs the question if there is a way to add these variables manually inside AC in the first place? --maybe as a category? or as a tag?

Thanks!

[castigous]

Hi!

I followed your last suggestion from last week so I exported from AC a list of 10 products to check how isit is organized.

The thing is the resultant CSV file has more than 510 columns of variables  for each product (up to column ACS on Libreoffice), so I find quite overwhelming to know what of those variables are the ones I need to fill and-or replace from the list exported in VirtueMart.

Do you have any other suggestions?

Also I have tried to contact AbanteCart professional support about 3 times since more than a week ago, so I fill the form but so far haven´t received any response.

Should I give up with this project?