Import characteristics multiple language

Hi,

How do you import the characteristics ?
Via PHPMyAdmin's import tool on the hikashop_characteristic table ?
And how do you manage the translations on your website ? With Falang ? Or with the built-in system in HikaShop ?
If you're using HikaShop's built-in translation system, then the translations are stored in the file languages/overrides/en-GB.override.ini
And the key of the translations is based on the name of the characteristic.
So if you have for example the name "My characteristic", you can add the translation override:
MY_CHARACTERISTIC="Some other text" in the override translation file.
So that way, you can import the translations of your characteristics in the override file for each language.

With Falang, it's more troublesome as you would need to import the data in the falang_content table, with the id of the elements...

Hi,

Well, on most ecommerce websites characteristics are created manually as there are only a couple of them with a couple of values.
Usually, what merchants want to import are products and variants of these products.
Are you really talking about characteristics ?
For variants and products, the import tool in HikaShop does support importing Falang translations.
But since the import tool doesn't support importing characteristics, that wouldn't help you fi you're really talking about importing characteristics. In that case, the best option I see would be modifying the import tool to support the translations.

Hi,

Your screenshot is not a screenshot of a list of characteristics, but a screenshot of a list of variants.
So to me, it seems that you're talking about importing variants and not about import characteristics. In that case, you can do that with the default import tool in HikaShop and it support translations too.

Hi,

In that case yes, we're talking about characteristics.
I would recommend you contact the support of the tool you're using for the import then.
Maybe they have been working on that already on their end but didn't release it yet, or maybe you voicing your interest for that capability will motivate them to work on this sooner.