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Import product data from xl spreadsheet / customisation of administration interface

Tuesday 01 June 2004 6:18:44 am - 3 replies

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steve walker

Tuesday 01 June 2004 6:29:22 am

Hi,

I have found some useful stuff via:

http://www.ez.no/ez_publish/documentation/development/importing_attribute_data

and the thread found at:

http://ez.no/community/forum/developer/content_import_questions

Its still all pretty experimental stuff - does anyone know of any developments since then?

Steve

http://www.oneworldmarket.co.uk

Mark Marsiglio

Tuesday 01 June 2004 8:05:22 am

Did you look at the content import function descriptions for eZ 3.4? This is supposed to be one of the new features... Also, there may be a chance at the ERP plug in working, only because Excel does support ODBC, and you would just have to be able to map the data structure correctly for your spreadsheets. I have not used this plugin, though, so that is speculation.

In regards to the admin interface, it can be customized just as the user site can - using overrides and custom .tpl files. Beware, though, there are a lot of templates in the admin/standard design folders (base folder in 3.4). Designing an entirely new inteface is possible, but would be time consuming.

In my project, we created a few custom templates for displaying our own classes in the admin, and we removed the store tab from the interface because it was not used. These changes were both very easy. Adding a new template would also be quite easy.

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steve walker

Thursday 03 June 2004 12:20:31 am

Mark,

Thanks for your input.

I cant locate the 'content import function descriptions' - I find the links as I pasted in above, but nothing succinct. It would be great to develope an admin extension that allows the input/output of data, something similar say to when you syncronise a PDA with outlook contact database...

The ODBC aspect of XL is interesting...

In terms of admin customisation, if I can get the data inport to work well, I dont need to worry about creating new product listing views... we shall see. Alex and others have made some inroads into data importing, but it looks pretty high level stuff - I'll post any success I have here.

Steve.

http://www.oneworldmarket.co.uk

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