The Template Data File and Example Data File help you to understand and fulfill the data feed requirements. As mentioned in the introduction of Integrate your Product Data, this documentation is targeted towards users who want to build Product Guides with the excentos Workbench entirely themselves. For all other cases, excentos supports a wide variety of different data formats and structures and is happy to help you getting the most out of your existing data feed, no matter how complex.
Template Data File
If you start creating your Product Guide and product data from scratch, we recommend you to download our template file (download below). The template data file contains all recommended data fields and helps you to fulfill the data feed requirements. This helps you to create a clean and nice structure for your Product Data. Additionally, you can add further data attributes as columns and create the product information per product as rows.
To download the file, just click on the file link below and your web browser will save the file to your default download folder.
If you want to learn more on what is suitable, recommended, allowed and not possible, see our Example Data File below.
Example Data Files
If you are not sure how to build up your Product Data in order to make it work with the excentos Product Guides, you can take a look at the Example Data Files. These files contain comments in highlighted cells that show Do's (green) and Don'ts (red) of data preparation.
To download the files, just click on the file links below and your web browser will save the file to your default download folder.
The bike_data_example.ods file contains some Do's and bike_data_example_donts.ods includes some Don'ts. All highlighted examples contain a short description.
Info: Don't forget to convert the bike_data_example file from ODS to CSV before you upload this file into the workbench (see Export the Product Data File into CSV) or directly use our bike_data_example.csv.
Warning: Please don't use the bike_data_example_donts file to build up your product data. instead, use the Template Data File since it guarantees a clean and fresh start and structure.
