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03 January 2023 | RO CSVI

RO CSVI has extended its support to Dependent custom fields for all in its RO CSVI Customfieldsforall extension. The procedure to run this import is same as Customfieldsforall except the part that there is a new available field custom_parent_value which is used for inserting parent_id.

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16 November 2015 | RO CSVI

Sometimes a process generates an error notification or it simply seems to run forever. In this case the error happens in the background and you can't see what is happening. To make it possible to see what is happening, you can use the developer tools from your browser.

Installation

The developer tools are generally available by pressing F12 or CTRL-SHIFT-I.

Analyze the problem

With the developer tools open we can analyze what happens. Follow these steps:

1. Prepare your template if you are doing an import or export, otherwise you can skip this step.
2. Activate the developer tools.
3. Click on the Network tab. The network tab will tell us what is going on. Your screen should look like this:
   
   
4. Click on the Preserve log button to make sure that the import information is not lost.
5. Start the import/export/maintenance task
6. During the execution you can get a screen like this:
   
   
7. What to look for is the URL shown in the red box that ends with index.php?option=com_csvi Click on this URL to see the contents.
8. Click on the Response tab
9. Here you will either see the error that is causing the problem or some code you may not understand. That is not a problem.
   
10. Either look to fix the error or post the full output on the forum and we will have a look
11. You can now close the developer tools.

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16 August 2021 | RO CSVI

The Margin plugin let's you set a margin to the product price (for example) and imports the new price according to the value set. 

From Components -> RO CSVI ->Templates tab -> Rules, Click New to add a new rule for margin plugin.



For example to create a rule to set 20% margin for product_price field of a virtuemart product.

1. Give a Descriptive name for the rule in name field.
2. Select Action as Import.
3. Select Plugin as RO CSVI margin.
4. Click on load plugin button.

You will now see three new fields appears

1. Value type field to select how the margin is calculated either percentage or value.
2. Margin field to set how much percentage or value to be added, For example here its 20.
3. Operation type used to calculate the margin.

Example

Here is an example on how to create a rule using margin plugin for a product_price field in virtuemart.

Explanation on the fields

Value type

 Take the percentage of value or the value itself.

Margin

Value to be taken for percentage, with the example in the above screenshot, 20% is taken as margin.

Operation

The type of arithmetic operation to be used for calculating the margin. This example uses Multiplication. So for 100 as product_price, margin as 20% with the rule applied, final product_price would be 120 on import.

Comparison Operator

Compare product_price value before applying the margin.

Product price value

The value to compare product_price with. With the above settings in the screenshot, product_price is compared if it is greater than 100 before applying the margin.

Decimals

The number of decimals to be taken after the margin calculation. In this case 4 decimals are taken.

Now set this rule to template fields to use the margin plugin like below



When the fields are set with rules you can see a small fire icon next to the field name in Template fields tab.



Important Note :

•  Make sure that  product_price (example used in this template) are added in template fields list.
  
• Use file for configuration option in templates->template name->file tab set to No.

 

Now that all rules and fields are set, CSVI will automatically calculate the product_price according to the new margin set. Say here for an example the product_price in CSV file has been given as 100. While import CSVI will calculate the price and show as below.

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14 September 2016 | RO CSVI

Its more often that users think that CSVI can import only one file at a time but that is not the case at all, CSVI can run import for multiple files if the location is set to be a folder instead of file. The below steps will explain how an import from folder can be set for an import routine.

1. Create a import template needed for the routine as explained in the Create template tutorial.

2. Now edit the template and go to Source tab.

3. In the drop down list, select the option  "Load from Server".

4. A text box to give the path is shown,  enter the path of the folder where CSVI needs to read the files from.

5. Save the template.

And thats all has to be done for importing multiple files. Now run the import and CSVI will read the files one by one from the folder and does the import. 

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04 April 2022 | RO CSVI

RO CSVI has a flexibilty to skip the records on import and export based on any specific text. This can be achieved using Skip rule plugin.

The example document will explain how to skip records based on text in category_path field in import. The operation used here is VirtueMart product import.

Consider that the import file looks like the content in the below table and you need to skip the import of records with text cooper and reebok in category_path.

The first step is to create a product import 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, say for example VirtueMart Product import
4. Set Action to Import
5. Set Component to VirtueMart
6. Set Operation to Product
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.

Set the Use file for configuration to No in import template settings on File tab. Save the template.

Add the needed template fields for the template. 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.

Now create a Skip rule and apply the rule on category_path field.

1. Go to Components -> RO CSVI -> Rules
2. Click New
3. Give the rule a name, say for example Skip categories
4. Set Action to Import
5. Select Plugin to CSVI Skip
6. Method to match is Regular text
7. Values to match as cooper,reebok
8. Save the rule
9. Set the rule on category_path field in template fields page.

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 with name VirtueMart product import
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. Here you can also see that CSVI has skipped two rows with text cooper and reebok in category_path field. If you still see the rows then there is something wrong with your Skip rule setting. Cross check the settings again.
7. Click Start import
8. The import is run and you can see that CSVI showing messages in log details page that the rows are skipped because of skip rule settings.
9. The Log details page will be shown with information regarding the import if the Enable logging is enabled in the template

Skip rule for Date expressions

Starting with RO CSVI 8.3.0 version, we are introducing a new feature of comparing date values using Skip rule so to skip a record based on dates.

Fields offered

1. Select method to match as Date expression
2. We offer three types of date selectors. Date before, Date after and Date equal. This acts as comparison operator to check the date values
3. Date to check is offered with current date and input date. Current date will check the date value against today's date. Input date compares with the date as entered in Date value field with database value and skips the record if it matches the condition.
4. Date format field is to set the format in which date value is compared. Default format is set to "Y-m-d H:i:s"

Example

Consider that you need to check for product_available_date field is more than a specific date(2022-04-15 00:00:00) in VirtueMart products export and skip those records. Set the Skip rule like the image below and apply the rule on product_available_date field in template fields.

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