[ic] Import Products with MySQL

[Ed LaFrance]

At 01:50 PM 08/14/2002 +1000, you wrote:
>Hi All
>
>We have IC 4.8.5 (will be 4.8.6 soon!!)
>Using Foundation type site with MySQL
>Red Hat 7.3
>
>Our product range of over 2000 items has all been hand entered over many
>late nights.
>
>We have a few supplier product lists on CD and I can manipulate structure
>easily so what is the best way to import these.  About another 2000
>products.
>
>I need to know the easiest or best way to import without loosing current
>catalog.  If it requires appending to products.txt and doing something with
>that is fine.
>
>So question is how do I do it?

AFAIK the import utility in the UI Table menu should be able to handle this 
(but export to a backup file first, just in case).

- Ed L.


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