The Import and Export tool allows you to import and export Staggs attributes. Important! Always have a back-up ready before importing a new file! Import Tool You can upload three types of files in the import tool. We will go over all three types in a bit. But we want to start off with a few important notes. 1) The tool only supports CSV files. This is the most stable and straight-forward file type to base imports on. So if you are used to working with Excel files, you have to export your files as a CSV-file, before uploading it to the import tool. 2) Be careful with item and group ids. We can’t stress this enough! If you have IDs set, be sure that they match with the items you want to update. Because if there is a mismatch, you will update the wrong items. And if you do not have a backup ready, it will be a very painful mistake. 3) IDs are important We can’t validate whether you have picked the right IDs for your attributes. So if an ID is present, we will update the corresponding attribute if it is of type attribute. Otherwise it will be skipped. So if you have provided a wrong attribute ID you will update the wrong item. If an ID is not set, we assume it will be a new item. However, if we find a match based on the attribute title, we will update that one instead. 4) Attribute names should be unique The tool will check if an attribute with a given title already exists. So please make your titles as descriptive as possible, so that you won’t have duplicates. That way the import tool works best. Otherwise you might be updating records you did not intend to update. 5) You don’t have to use all columns We will only update the columns that are passed through Required columns are: attr:id (attribute post id) attr:admin_title (attribute post title) attr:title (attribute title) item:label (attribute item label)
Example CSV files Download example file here Export Tool The export tool is quite self-explanatory. Select which attribute to export (or select all) and hit the export button. Your file will generate and download automatically.