Magento

Hi all,

I was importing product with ‘store’ set as ‘default’ and everything was fine. Now when I tried to update the description, I observed that the frontend shows the change and the backend doesn’t. On looking at the import process further, understood that Magento imports all data as ‘Admin’ during the first import and then on it looks at the store field passed through import. Since in my case this is set to ‘default’, the front end reflects the change in description and backend doesnt as it still shows the first imported data (as admin).

This is a bit confusing as the ‘default store view’ gets shown only if we create one more store view. Wonder what the difference is between ‘default’ store view and the admin store view?

I just noticed I’m having the same issue.  Can someone let us know why this is happening.

Aha - This must be the reason I am having such a difficult time importing attribute data onto products that are already in the system.  What should my “store” field be set to on import?  default or admin.  When I use “admin” it tells me that the field does not exist and it skips those rows. :(

I did this and it seemed to work.  I changed my upload file type to Excel XML and started saving my upload in that format and that seemed to solve the problem.  Let me know if it works for you.

What version of Excel are you using and what file format did you select?  “ ++++++ “

Thanks - roco

I’m using Office 2007.  I selected XML Spreadsheet 2003 in Excel.

Before, when I was uploading all the products I would get an error.  I saved the file in XML format and the error went away, and the product attributes I updated would appear on the Magento backend - not just the frontend.

Thanks ryanr.  All is working well!