Products import from external source

Here you can find a package with sample commented code and .csv file with few products - sample package for v3.1. Here you can download the package for 3.1a version,  package for 4.0 version and here is the package for version 6.

1) Backup your database at first.
2) Copy the following files to the root of your web project folder:

a. ImportProducts.aspx
b. ImportProducts.aspx.cs
c. Products.csv

3) Open ‘ImportProducts.aspx’ in your internet browser.
4) Script will run and the following objects will be created:

a. CMSDesk/Tools/Ecommerce/Products – “Product 1”, “Product 2”, “Product 3”
b. CMSDesk/Tools/Ecommerce/Configuration/Department – “Default department”
c. CMSSiteManager/Development/Document types – “Default product”
d. CMSDesk/Content/<site root>/Custom products – documents “Product 1”, “Product 2”, “Product 3”

Please note: You may need to go to Properties of appropriate page, into Template tab and set Inherit content to Do not inherit any content. This is called visual inheritance - www.kentico.com/docs/devguide/visual_inheritance.htm. Or, you may need to explicitly set the page tempalte for the parent and product documents (e.g. productDoc.DocumentPageTemplateID = <template_ID>;)

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Applies to: Kentico CMS 3.1 and later