Add an import function to Listings
It would be awesome to be able to bulk import post data (eg. from CSV, etc) to Listings, including custom fields.
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Max
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Ben
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I do find it amazing that this *basic* feature is missing from a theme which has a fundamental focus on databases. I hope a solution can be created soon as it would plug a gaping void in what is otherwise an extremely good theme!
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Sandra
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We need to have the import function, too. I see the last comment is from a month ago.
Any news? Or Solutions?Thanks for any responses.
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Jason Fazio commented
I still can't believe that this hasn't been completed yet. Without this feature, Listings is really hard to get started with if you already have an established database. I don't understand why WooThemes hasn't implemented a solution.
The time spent answering all the feeds I have read regarding this equals a great amount of employee time wasted. Instead of them answering the threads, why wouldn't they spend that time working on the solution? It just doesn't make sense.
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Anonymous
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This would make an already outstanding theme absolutely perfect. I have several thousands of records that I need to be searchable from the front end, and if Listings had a mass-upload feature it would be exactly what I'm looking for!
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Anonymous
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I would really like this feature please!!!
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Andrew
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any more news to this? I really could use mass importing to listings
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Timm Cuzzo
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This would be a great feature...almost a necessary for a listing site with a good size directory. One by one can be very time consuming.
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Thomas Krüger commented
Come on, a function to import Excel or CSV data would be fine !!!!!!!!!!!
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Thomas commented
Without bulk data import it's quite difficult to generate long listings from existent data. :-(
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Anonymous
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Any updates? I really like the Listings theme and I just bought it but unfortunately without a bulk-edit function it useless for me .. at least for now.
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Sergei Orlov
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It would be amazing to have csv/xml support. Giving my 3 votes and hoping for the best :)
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Jeff Hendrickson commented
An option to import db exports from other major directory scripts would be awesome, in particular from nicecoder's indexu, PHPLD, etc.
Or possibly a function that would allow you to map your uploaded database to this theme.
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JayB
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Any mechanism to accept a csv dump would open up Listings for big things!
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Roslyn
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Hi Paul, the site is not live yet unfortunately. Ecwid is a hosted shopping cart solution. http://www.ecwid.com/.
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maninthevan
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Oh and can we see the site you've just done? :)
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maninthevan
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Hi Roslyn,
Great suggestion. Totally with that. Who/what is Ecwid? -
Roslyn
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I have just completed a site with the listings theme that is going to have thousands of listings so this feature would be brilliant! Ecwid has a nice way to do this. You upload a csv file, either tab or comma delimited. It then determines the columns and lists them with a drop down box next to each that lets you pick which field (or custom fields) the data must be added to. This only works as a once off import (you can not add data to existing listings), but it at least makes the initial upload easier and faster.
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Vince LaMonica
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I agree with Paul on this one. I'm in the midst of adapting Listings [before the bookclub child theme was released] to serve as a front end for my Amazon Marketplace storefront. I use software on my Mac [Bookpedia and a custom app i wrote] to do inventory/order management for me, and both solutions export CSV, so using/automating a CSV dump into MySQL or via a Woo frontend interface would rock. I've been working on doing it via MySQL since I can fully automate it via cron, but I have another use for Listings that might make using a Woo frontend import feature just as useful.
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maninthevan
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Allow the import to be conducted based on the structure of the completed content type(s). New data could be appended to existing data unless a flag is set to overwrite it. Allowing the user to export to a csv based on the existing structure and manually entered data would provide the csv template for the imports.
