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Adding 6,000 Additional Pics
Posted: Sat May 16, 2009 3:45 pm
by Humannature
I need to assign about six thousand additional image pics. One for every product we have. Is there a way of doing this other than one at a time through the able backend. I use the data port extensively for csv uploads but strangely enough it does not seem to have a field for this. The posts on this subject dont answer the question very well and leave me still wondering? Any help would be VERY appreciated!!
Humannature
http://www.biggsltd.com
Site critisism welcome and appreciated
Re: Adding 6,000 Additional Pics
Posted: Mon May 18, 2009 7:52 am
by louderback
I had the same problem until I found out I could just upload them all through FTP with the correct path:
wwwroot/Assets/ProductImages/
this is how I did it with Able Commerce.
Good Luck.
Edward 
Re: Adding 6,000 Additional Pics
Posted: Mon May 18, 2009 8:46 am
by Humannature
Thanks, but the problem is not uploading them to the server but assigning them to the products. The back end of able has you add one at a time. This is incredibly cumbersome and is not a realistic option. I wish I could just add the location to a field (like ImageUrl, ThumbnailUrl, ect) in a csv file and upload it with the dataport but for some reason an additional pics field is not supported. (as far as I can tell)
So how can I assign 6,000 additional pics?
Thanks
Re: Adding 6,000 Additional Pics
Posted: Mon May 18, 2009 8:50 am
by mazhar
Instead of trying CSV try XML import/export. First make a custom export and download all you store products to XML format. Then edit XML file and locate additional images for each product entry. In order to facilitate your self better setup additional images on at least one product. When you export all products then you can check that product for reference that how additional images information is stored in XML.