How to Create Magento Dataflow advanced profiles during extension installation in Magento 1.9.x?

Question

Can anyone please tell me How to Create New Magento Dataflow advanced profiles during extension installation in Magento 1.9.x?

Answer 1

This can be done using a data installer. To learn more about the basics of those please check out this Inchoo Article.

Now for the business end of the data installer; we create a new file in the module root data/my_module/install-1.0.0.php

and create a Dataflow Profile for installation

<?php

$installer = $this;
/* @var $installer Mage_Core_Model_Resource_Setup */
$installer->startSetup();

/**
 * Dataflow profile data
 */
Mage::getModel('dataflow/profile')->setData([
    'name'         => 'Import OrderAdd items',
    'actions_xml'  => '<action type="dataflow/convert_adapter_io" method="load">
    <var name="type">file</var>
    <var name="path">var/import</var>
    <var name="filename"><![CDATA[csvfile.csv]]></var>
    <var name="format"><![CDATA[csv]]></var>
</action>
<action type="dataflow/convert_parser_csv" method="parse">
    <var name="delimiter"><![CDATA[,]]></var>
    <var name="enclose"><![CDATA["]]></var>
    <var name="fieldnames">true</var>
    <var name="store"><![CDATA[0]]></var>
    <var name="number_of_records">1</var>
    <var name="decimal_separator"><![CDATA[.]]></var>
    <var name="adapter">my_module/dataflow_adapters_import</var>
    <var name="method">saveRow</var>
</action>',
    'gui_data'     => '',
    'direction'    => 'import',
    'entity_type'  => '',
    'store_id'     => 0,
    'data_transfer'=> 'file'
])->save();

$installer->endSetup();