Is it possible to include a Cron Job i Product Importer Deluxe. It would be nice to have it all automated. Because at this point I have to download the product feed manually and upload it to Product Importer Deluxe also manually.

With a Cron Job I could point Product Importer Deluxe to the address of my site ex: hxxp://mysite.com/wp-content/feeds/all.csv and let the Cron Job automatically download the CSV file from an affiliate network?

I found a guide on how to setup a Cron Job: http://www.affiliatetuts.com/datafeeds/automating-datafeed-imports-using-cron-jobs/

The only thing I'm missing is an extra box at the import products in the Upload section which I can point to an address of my choice as explained earlier.

Thanks in advance
Johann Valdimarsson
http://bedstegave.dk

The new built in product csv export/import is great except for 1 thing - you cannot delete a value.

If the csv has an empty value (i.e. 2 commas), the merge on import ignores the value and does not overwrite existing data of the product. So if you want to delete a value (such as removing all images) it cannot be done via the import.

I would suggest that if csv contains an empty string in quotes, then it is taken as delete existing value. Or make it configurable - so on import you could say configure a value to mean delete (e.g. Have a ‘If column value equals this, merge and delete’ input field that user could configure how they want, then user could set this to say <DEL> and put that string in the csv at points where they want to delete the value. Having it configurable would allow user to use Excel to edit csv file easily.

It would be super-helpful if I could ADD new new product category to products, rather than having to export product data and add a product category to the field and then reimport and replace - which is currently how merge import is setup - not cool when managing promo items for a large store.

For example, let's say for the month of November, I want to apply a 30% discount to 100 products that are in 15 different product categories. It would be much more helpful and efficient if I could simply import a CSV with the SKUs for all the promo products and ADD a new product category of something like "NOVPROMO". Once the promo is over, I could simply delete the product category.

Those who have large data sets consisting of variable products and multiple variations who don't wish to use an SKU to reference the variable product are kind of screwed.

You can't perform a first-time import of variable products and variations without assigning the variable product, or parent, an SKU that can then be referenced by each associated variation. And that has forced us to construct a backend query that blanks out the SKU after importation.

Why would one want to not have variable products displayed with an SKU? For one thing it's an inconsistent construction. The variable product with variations is really a class container and not a product. The variable product's SKU is not a property of the class as are variations. Secondly, it confusing to see a reference to an SKU that you can't purchase and even when you have your default attribute set to 'unselected' the shop still shows an SKU, an SKU of something that can't be purchased. It doesn't make sense. A blank SKU shows as 'N/A' on the shop, which is preferable to showing an SKU that can't be bought, but still it's inconsistent. Nothing should be displayed in that location in the shop for variable products until a selection of a variation is made.

A more logical way to perform the import and accommodate the above concerns is to include a new column called something like family_id. When the line item is of a variable type then the id is referencing the parent, when the line item is of a variation type then it’s referencing a child of the parent. This id is temporary and only used in the import process. The scheme lends itself to the parent->child relationship of the dataset so the id would an easy thing to construct in the preparation of the csv import file.