products

[Tseguin]

Hi my name is Teri and I am new to Soho and to this forum. I need help and a lot of it.
Does anyone know if I can upload and down load a lot of products to the site I am working on. Someone mention FTP but when I sign into FTP I can find the product file to download. I’ve added to products hoping I could download them and get some sort of template like a excel sheet that I could add my information to and then upload the file with my product information to the site. Also do you know if I can up load a lot of pictures that way to. Any help with this would be appreciated, Thank you ahead of time.

[lwyau]

Welcome to the forum!

You can do a search on "import products" since this subject has been discussed many times in the past. Here is one of the thread on this subject: http://forum.soholaunch.com/showthread.php?t=3700&highlight=import+products.

[Tseguin]

Im sorry but I have gone threw this thread and i am still confused. Do I have to have soho pro in order to be able to upload and download my products? I only have so ho. I have added two products to my site and i see how they work. How do i download them, ftp or some other way? where do i find the cart_products table? I went into ftp and looked thre the files and could not find it am i missing something here. I am a newby to building my on site. I really need some help, please.

[Tseguin]

what does csv mean
where is th cart-product table

My daughter knows excel weel can help

[lwyau]

My recommendation is that you add products to soho the regular way: through sohoadmin > shopping cart functions. Importing data directly to cart_products table is particularly complex because it is designed to be efficient for the application, but very much encripted in how data are stored.

Having said that, here are some of the answers to your questions:

1. you can find cart_products table at sohoadmin > database tables > system tables. You can download data from this or any other table.
2. .csv is known as "comma delimited file", a standard format for importing/exporting data .
3. If you can add products to shopping cart, you already have soho pro.

[Tseguin]

I have over a thousand product and adding them to the cart one by one will not work. Do i ftp my product to download them. My husband is good at excell. so he should be able to help me with the csv file. But do i ftp the products to download the file and then ftp them back

[lwyau]

Go to sohoadmin > database tables > system tables. Locate cart_products table and you will see "import" and "export" options next to it.

Cart_products is not a "file" that you can FTP with. It is a MySQL Database Table.