The purpose of data import is to bulk import objects like products or customers from outside using delimiter structured files (CSV). The import functionality is also able to update a huge amount of data, e.g. product prices.
Import profiles summarize all required information required information to individually control the import operation. These include in particular:
Uploading of files used as the data source
Type of object to be imported, e.g. product, customer etc.
CSV specific settings
Import field data mapping
Setup of automatic scheduled imports
To manage import profiles, go to Configuration > Import.
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You can directly execute the scheduled task that is configured by a profile by Run Now in the profile list and watch the progress of the import. Activity Log opens the log file for the last import. It contains important information (like errors) about the last execution of the profile.
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Click on Add New to create a new import profile. On the following page, you must upload your import file and select the select the import object. After clicking on Save Save, you you will be redirected to the new import profile .
Click the name of the import profile to edit it. 
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Data imports can be executed automatically via scheduled via scheduled tasks at any time. Therefore a scheduled task is assigned to each import profile when it is created is created. This task is task is always unscheduled by nscheduled by default, thus the profile will never automatically execute. Click Execution to to get a link to the related task and to change the scheduling settings .
Object TypesObject Types
The import framework supports the following object types:
Product
Category
Customer
Newsletter Subscriber
CSV specific settings
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Quote all fields | Defines whether to set quotation marks around all field values. |
Trim values | Defines whether to remove space characters at start and end of a field value. |
Supports multilines | Defines whether field values with multilines are supported. |
Delimiter | Choose the field separator. |
Quote character | Choose the quotation character. |
Inner quote character | Choose the inner quote character used for escaping. |
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The first row of a CSV file must contain headers of the columns that they stand for. |
Import field data mapping
You can optionally set for each field of the import file whether and for which object property the data should be imported. Fields with equal names are always imported as long as they are not explicitly ignored. Not yet selected properties are highlighted in the selection list. It is also possible to define a default value which is applied when the import field is empty.
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By changing the data delimiter, stored assignments becomes invalid and reset. |