How to insert vm short description?

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I'm exporting date from vm1 into hika shop
There is a product short description in vm1.

How can I import the vm1 product short description as I see that Hika Shop products don't have a short description?
thanks,
Jo

Hi,

HikaShop indeed doesn't have a short description.
If you want one, you can create a custom field of the table "product" via the menu Display>Custom fields (Essential and Business editions only). Then, you'll have to run a query to get the short description from VM (or use some CSV export/import). And finally, you'll need to modify the views of HikaShop to display it where you want.

Thank you Nicholas.
I have created the custom field.
I can import the short description data via csv file and make a new column for the short description to be accepted.

I'm not sure how to "modify the views of HikaShop to display it where you want."
Can you please expand on that process?
thanks,
Jo

Hi,

It depends how you configure your shop.
With the standard product listing layout and assuming that you want to display the short description on the products listing page, you want to edit the file "listing_img_title" of the view "product" via the menu Display>Views and add such code:
<?php echo $this->row->field; ?>

where field is to be replaced with the column name of your custom field.