Linking import to images already uploaded

[925 Gifts]

Hi all.<br><br>Thanks for your help so far it has been great. is there anyway to automatically get pictures uploaded via ftp to link up with a product import.<br><br>i don want to have to individually go through each product and have to sort it.<br><br>Cheers all.

[Red Devil]

There is no way at the moment to automatically link an image to a product "in bulk" without creating a CSV import file as follows.

Stage 1

CSV file of SKU's and the name of the image contained in the products/large folder on your Bluepark site. This will link the SKU to that image.

SKU	LARGE Image
123	products/large/image123.jpg

If you have all your images on an old site, you don't necessarily have to FTP to your Bluepark site. You can refer to them in your CSV from their old location and the CSV file will import them that way (you have to make sure you are importing them to the LARGE image location on Bluepark).

SKU	LARGE Image (from old site)
123	http://www.youroldsite/imagefolder/image123.jpg

Stage 2

Once Stage 1 is complete, you can then create another CSV file of SKU's to create the Main, Thumbnail and Basket images using the "create" command. Their dimensions will be 300 x 300 px, 150 x 150 px and 50 x 50 px accordingly. They will be based on the already present Large image from Stage 1.

SKU	MAIN	THUMBNAIL	BASKET
123	create(300,300)	create(150,150)	create(50,50)

[925 Gifts]

Thanks for that, It looks like i have got a lot of work ahead of me. i thought i saw the end of spredsheets and csv when i left school many years ago.

Thanks