RO CSVI

Joomla Custom Fields import

Requirements

Joomla Custom Fields
Import Fields

Creating the template

A template can be created by following these steps:

  1. Go to Components -> RO CSVI -> Templates
  2. Click New
  3. Give the template a name
  4. Set Action to Import
  5. Set Component to Joomla Custom fields
  6. Set Operation to Fields
  7. Click Next: Select Source
  8. Source is set default to Load from your computer. No need for change.
  9. Click Next: Select options
  10. The default values are OK, change if needed.
  11. Click Next: Select fields
  12. Nothing needed here as we set to Use column headers as configuration in step 10.
  13. Click Next: Finalize
  14. All done here
  15. Click Close to return to the list of templates or Edit if you want to fine-tune the template further.

Adding the template fields

Template fields can be added by following these steps:

  1. Go to Components -> RO CSVI -> Templates
  2. Click on Template fields
  3. In the Search Tools select your template
  4. Click on New to add a single field or click on Quick Add to add multiple fields.

Quick Add

The Quick Add Option allows you to quickly add multiple fields to a template. It is not possible to set any settings per field here but that can be done after the fields have been added to the template.

Required fields

  • name/alias

Criteria

These fields make up the criteria to determine if the record is going to be updated or added. If all the criteria fields match an existing record, the record will be updated. If not all the criteria fields match, the record will be added.
  • name/alias

 

Creating the import file

As in the example file, the fields we are trying to import are listed below, more fields can be added according to the requirement. Check the available fields page in CSVI to find out which fields are available for the Joomla Custom Fields import.

Run the import

The import can be run by following these steps:

  1. Go to Components -> RO CSVI -> Import
  2. Select the template created earlier
  3. Click Select file
  4. Select the file to import
  5. Click Preview
  6. You now see a preview of the file as to how CSVI sees the file
  7. Click Start import
  8. The import is run
  9. The Log details page will be shown with information regarding the import if the Enable logging is enabled in the template

Video showing the process

 

Examples

Remember that the category_path and group_name should be already created before running the import. If not available RO CSVI will show error.

 

Example for creating User custom field

"title","category_path","context_type","group_name","type"
 "User location","user/user-location","user","User group","text"

Example for creating Article custom field

"title","category_path","context_type","group_name","type"
 "User article","user/user-location","article","User group","list"

Example for creating Contact custom field

"title","category_path","context_type","group_name","type"
 "User contact","user/user-location","contact","User group","text"

It is also possible to import all the custom field type as one with one import file

"title","category_path","context_type","group_name","type"
"User location","user/user-location","user","User group","text"
"User article","user/user-location","article","User group","list"
"User contact","user/user-location","contact","User group","text"

Please note multiple categories are separated by | . An example for category_path field for multiple categories would look like user/user-location|user/user-region.

Example file

Joomla_customfields_import.csv

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