How to: format descriptions of product imports

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13 years 10 months ago #4135

Hi,

Currently sussing out the file import file, and am struggling with getting the text descriptions to drop onto multiple lines.

Can this be done? or do I have to upload it, then format it?

Thanks

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13 years 10 months ago #4136

You can use quotes to have multiple lines in a field:

product_code,product_description
my_code,"my
product
description
on
several
lines"

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13 years 10 months ago #4137

any chance of doing it from within an excel csv?

tried via text field too... got the following error...

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13 years 10 months ago #4138

Interesting. You found a bug in the import.

It doesn't work if the last column is on several lines.

You can replace the file administrator/components/com_hikashop/helpers/import.php by the one in the archive to fix the problem.

The text field example I wrote is just to show you how the system handles several lines.
Excel CSV are supported as well.

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13 years 10 months ago #4139

thanks :)
i'll check it out in a few days...

Have a happy Christmas :)

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13 years 10 months ago #4141

with the csv import... how do I get text on the next lines... i did the usual "alt+enter" ... but this doesn't work
**** EDIT***
this does move the lines down on execl... but not when imported.


also, even when using the text editor / imort it still puts them all on the same line.


****** The text i was trying to import *******

product_code,product_description,categories
testnew1,"my
product
description
on
several
lines",11

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13 years 10 months ago #4142

Entering several lines in Excel isn't really related to HikaShop :)

From what I know it's ctrl+enter or ctrl+alt+centre on macs.
Some users say alt+enter works for them...
Just try the different combinations. There's got to be one working but apparently it depends on your version of Excel.

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13 years 10 months ago #4143

sorry yes I meant I put the text on more lines in excel, but didn't work on the import.

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13 years 10 months ago #4144

Could you edit the CSV with a text editor and copy/paste here a few lines so that we can test on our end ?

Did you get any error ?

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13 years 10 months ago #4145

no error, it just didn't split the lines.
i'll do it now.

my csv file has all the fields... but not populated yet as i'm just trying to get it worked out before I start putting in data.

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13 years 10 months ago #4146

product_parent_id,product_name,product_description,product_quantity,product_code,product_published,product_hit,product_created,product_sale_start,product_sale_end,product_delay_id,product_tax_id,product_type,product_vendor_id,product_manufacturer_id,product_url,product_weight,product_keywords,product_weight_unit,product_modified,product_meta_description,product_dimension_unit,product_width,product_length,product_height,product_max_per_order,price_value,price_currency_id,price_quantity,files,images,categories,related,size
,testnew,"""my description
on multiple
lines""",,testnew2,yes,,,,,,,,,,,0.1,,,,,,,,,,12,,,,thumbnail/umm.jpg,10,,



hmmm... it appears there is extra quote marks around the text...
i'll try removing this

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13 years 10 months ago #4147

I got rid of the "s from the csv... so the code is now this...


product_parent_id,product_name,product_description,product_quantity,product_code,product_published,product_hit,product_created,product_sale_start,product_sale_end,product_delay_id,product_tax_id,product_type,product_vendor_id,product_manufacturer_id,product_url,product_weight,product_keywords,product_weight_unit,product_modified,product_meta_description,product_dimension_unit,product_width,product_length,product_height,product_max_per_order,price_value,price_currency_id,price_quantity,files,images,categories,related,size
,test3,"my description
on multiple
lines",,testnew3,yes,,,,,,,,,,,0.1,,,,,,,,,,12,,,,thumbnail/umm.jpg,10,,


but.... this doesn't work either....

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13 years 10 months ago #4148

This yelds an error because of the space in the image column name as you have "imag es".
After correcting that, it imported correctly on my end in several lines.

Mmmm. I'm feeling that you're missing something:
The description of products is displayed in HTML. So return characters are not interpreted by the browser. If you want text on several lines in the description, you should use HTML tags. For example by adding <br/> tags.
Also, you might be tricked by your HTML editor. Some Joomla HTML editors will remove the return characters when displaying the description. If you set the editor option of hikashop to no editor, or if you look directly in the database, you will see the return characters.

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13 years 10 months ago #4149

wow thats weird... i just checked the csv file, and there is no space in images.

when i paste the file text here... there is no space,

but once submitted, the space appears.

when pasted in the "import from text area" with no space in images, it doesn't split them.. i'll try using html

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13 years 10 months ago #4150

ok so back to it after the break, I hope you have had time to relax.


this is what i'm getting at the moment... before even trying to get it right in the .csv file.
This is the text import I tried.


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13 years 10 months ago #4297

gives me this.. which is correct,

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13 years 10 months ago #4298

But is displaying this.....

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13 years 10 months ago #4302

What if you try with <br/> instead of </br> which is wrong ? It might have been removed by the text editor at one point because it's not valid HTML.

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13 years 10 months ago #4304

same result.

Sorry to be such a pain.

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13 years 10 months ago #4305

Ah, I have an idea, it's probably the input filtering which strips the HMTL.
Could you change the line

$content = JRequest::getString('textareaentries');
by the line
$content = JRequest::getVar('textareaentries','','','string',JREQUEST_ALLOWRAW);
in the file administrator/components/com_hikashop/controllers/import.php ?

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