Import manufacturer names and assign to products ?

Is there any way how to import manufacturer names and assign them to the products please ?

I tried to do that via product import & manufacturer_id column, but without success

thank you very much,
Karloz

Yes, you can have your manufacturers in the product_manufacturer_id column of your CSV and they will be imported.

hi yep i tried to import:

product_id, product_code, product_manufacturer_id
or only
product_id, product_manufacturer_id

and no product has been assign to a manufacturer (product_manufacturer_id was text)
also no manufacturer appears in manufacturers back-end
then i exported all products and the manufacturers are shown in categories column at the beginning, with null parent_category column

i would like to import products with a manufacturer name to be able to browse products by manufacturers...is it possible ?
thank you,
karloz

Please change the code:
$id = $this->_createCategory($product->product_manufacturer_id,'manufacturer');

to:
$id = $this->_createCategory($product->product_manufacturer_id,0,'manufacturer');

in the file administrator/components/com_hikashop/helpers/import.php

and import the CSV:

product_code,product_manufacturer_id
my_prod,my manufacturer

Yep it works very well thank you very much, but there is one more issue .. i imported:

product_code, product_manufacturer_id

manufacter name correctly assigned to the product,
but product_quantity changed to unlimited on all products, i think it should keep the previous quantity

also is it possible to set UTF-8 coding as default for import please ?

for the quantity, removing the code
else{
$product->product_quantity=-1;
}
from that same file will solve that problem.


The unknown format should use UTF8 or another format based on what the system detects so it should work in most cases.