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- If excentos provided the SFTP server for you, please upload your data file into the folder "www".
- Please do not change the names of the folder or file without prior notice.
- If you use XLS, XLSX or ODS files (instead of CSV files), please make sure that you do not rename the table within the spreadsheet file.
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Upload Process
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After selecting a file, a modal window occurs and illustrates a preview of the product data. This preview serves as a test whether your product data file has the right format according to the Product Data Feed Requirements.
You can select a separator, quote, escape character and an encoding.
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How mentioned in Required Fields and Their Names there are some attributes which are needed to display a set of information in the recommendation page. However not every data file uses exactly the needed nomenclature for the attributes. That is why can map each attribute from your file to one of the core attributes described in the required fields table.
Attributes with the exact same name (case sensitive) are auto-mapped. Furthermore it is not necessary to map all attributes. You can also edit the mappings later when clicking on the "Properties" button in the control bar.
Confirming this dialog adds your product data to your Product Guide.
Displaying Attribute Differences and Invalid Values
When updating a product data file the import modal window dialog is extended with two more pages.
New and Missing Attributes Dialog
The first one evaluates the attributes. If the new product file contains new attributes respectively some previous attribute are missing, they were displayed in two separate tables (new attributes, missing attributes). You can check if these changes seems to be right. Otherwise you should abort the import process.
Invalid Values Dialog
The second page displays all illegal or invalid values based on the attribute type. For example if the attribute price with type "Number" contains values with text instead of a number. Confirming this dialog has two consequences:
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an upload wizard. That wizard contains three to five steps (the additional two can only appear when a file is updated). The following subpages describe all wizard steps in more detail.
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Related Articles
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Read our FAQ regarding Product Data to learn when uploaded product data is live in the Product Guide, or how to combine changes/adaptations in your Product Guide and in your product data at the same time.
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