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Jimmery
Jimmery

Reputation: 10139

Can i use dataflow import to update products in Magento

I am really sorry for asking this. I feel like this is a stupid question, but honestly I have googled until the term googling has lost all meaning.

I just want to do a bulk update of product information, I do not want to add or import new products, just update the information for existing products. But all I seem to be able to find on google is articles referring to importing products into Magento. Perhaps my google-fu is failing me, and if this is the case I apologize, but I would be grateful if someone can just answer this really simple question.

I have a CSV file with updated product information.

I want to use this file to update the existing products in Magento 1.9.x.

Can this be done with importing?

Or will I have to build a script that reads the CSV file and manually updates each product?

Upvotes: 1

Views: 1034

Answers (1)

Hamid Parchami
Hamid Parchami

Reputation: 7689

Magento uses sku as identifier to update records. so you have to use magento structure. At the first you have to export products as a csv file to catch the structure and then modify that as you need. Magento import/export tool is very easy and useful.

For more details check this out:

http://merch.docs.magento.com/ce/user_guide/content/store-operations/data-transfer-manage.html

http://merch.docs.magento.com/ce/user_guide/content/store-operations/dataflow.html

Upvotes: 2

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