Sample Data

Is there any sample data bundle for hikashop (including products, images and categories )?

I did some basic search and couldn't find any.

I think such sample could really help newcomers with HikaShop. Plus, it wouldn't be that hard for you to simply export the data from www.demo.hikashop.com/ . In my case I don't really mind having a .zip (or tarball) of the images and a .sql for the data. However, it would make more sense to make it so it can be used with the "Import products" feature of HikaShop.

Is there plan for such sample, or maybe its already available somewhere?

Thank you

I don't mean they should be in the install package, but maybe simply available for anyone who might need them.

I'm currently evaluating if Hikashop will suit my needs for a custom e-commerce website I am working on (we already discussed about this in another thread (multi-vendor shop)).

Having sample data available would have allowed me to setup a personal working demo site very quickly. In my case, I don't care much about the data I have for my customization, I simply need enough data to make extensive testing (multiple nested categories, multiple photos per product and enough products to test pagination, search, and so on.)

I don't mind that much setuping my own sample data. I'm just saying if every developper that needs/wants to customize hikashop have to make their own sample data, that makes a lot of "globally" wasted time.

Just my two cents

Hi.
You have a new set of demo data! Not bad.
You can upload demo data including records of orders and payment. (me need for debug)
Thank u in advance.

Good luck

Thanks

Hi.
Nicolas, plz, check a file demo_data.sql. Its contents are not text, and binary.

The file, www.hikashop.com/hikashop_demo_data.zip , is missing

After installing 'Hikashop Starter 1.5.9_2012-08-18' I tried to import this sample data. While tring to import the SOL through phpmyadmin it say's that the SQL has some fields that the tables installed by default with the component doesn't know about. Bottomline, can't install the Sample data SQL.

Sample data enables a new user to browse through and inspect it's features easily. It gives some extra confidence.

Suggestion:
It would be nice if Hikashop comes with some sample data by default like Virtuemart or JoomShopping or even Joomla CMS installation.

Is this still an option in v3.x series? Just installed v 3.1.1 on a brand new clean Joomla site and didn't see an option to install demo data. We're going to be doing some custom plugin development and it would save some time if this was still available.

It's quite weird, but I didn't get the wizard the first install. Uninstalled and dropped all HikaShop tables, and then tried again and this time I got the wizard and sample data.

Thanks for confirming it was still supposed to be there.