Uploading Characteristics with Products

I have a number of characteristics for my products that have the same “Name”, but a different “Alias”.

For example, I have a characteristic called “Size” and with an alias of “Size_Shoe_UK”, and I have another characteristic called “Size” and with an alias of “Size_Shirts”. Values for “Size_Shoe_UK” might be (8,9,10,11,12) whereas values for “Size_Shirts” might be (Small, Medium, Large). The name is “Size” because that is what the customer sees when they are shopping, it is assumed that if they are looking for shoes, they know that “Size” refers to the shoe size and they are looking as shoes and that “Size” refers to shirt size when looking at shirts.

When I do a product import from CSV, the column only allows for “Size” and does not allow me to differentiate based on the alias. I have tried using the alias in the column header, but I get an error message.

As a work-around, I renamed all of the “Size” names to be the same as their alias, used the alias as the column name on the import, imported the data and then changed the names back to “Size”. This is not practical once the site goes into production.

Is there an easy way to import products will identical characteristic names, but different aliases and underlying value sets?

Hi Nicolas,

Thanks for the quick response to this issue.

I did a simple test this morning and it seemed to go fine. I'll do some more extensive testing with my entire database at a later date.

Best Regards.