CSV Import multilingual categories

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8 years 10 months ago #254571

-- HikaShop version -- : 2.6.2
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Hello,

I was able to import categories to my website but the multilingual part does not seem to work no matter what I try. I've added the names of the categories just like I used to do for multilingual products but the import tool doesn't recognize the fields and gives me an error. How can this be achieved?

Thank you in advance,

Guy.

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8 years 10 months ago #254612

Hi,

The CSV import system doesn't support the import of multilingual data for categories so it's normal that it doesn't work.
I don't have any easy solution to make that happen. It would require some development.

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8 years 10 months ago #254626

Well, that's unfortunate for me and every other user with many categories and several languages. Can the translations be added directly to the data base?

And another question, lets say I have several categories with the same name, for example "Blue". But one is under "Circle", one under "Square" and one under "Triangle". How can I assign my products accordingly so when I choose category "Blue" it will be the one assigned to "Square" and not to the other two?

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8 years 10 months ago #254630

Hi,

Yes, you can add it directly to the database. It has to be done in the falang_content table (or joomfish_content if you use JoomFish).

Regarding the categories assignation, I suppose that you're talking about doing that with the CSV.
You have several ways to do that.
If the categories are already in the database, you can use the id of the category instead of the name to easily differentiate them.
Otherwise, you can use the parent_category column.
So you specify the parent_category in that column for each product and the name of the category in the "categories" column.
That way, the system will know which category you're talking about if several of them have the same name by checking on their parent category.

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8 years 10 months ago #254685

Thank you for your detailed replay :)

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