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Currently Im using ho-nl/magento1-Ho_Import to import product information in Magento 1.9.2.

  1. I tried importing products using category path (eg: Computers/Keyboards) with success.
  2. Is there a way to import products in magento 1.9 using their category ID (eg: _category=1405)?.

I cannot find the answer in their github site or issues area. Any help appreciated.

EDITED---------------------------------------------------------- additional info. an example of a file that worked ok with category path:

_store,ho_import_profile,sku,_attribute_set,_type,store,_category,is_anchor,_product_websites,cost,price,location,country_of_manufacture,name,short_description,description,manufacturer,qty,weight,status,is_in_stock,tax_class_id,visibility,_media_attribute_id,_media_image,_media_lable,image,image_label,small_image,small_image_label,thumbnail,thumbnail_label,gallery,media_gallery

electronics,141565030710,Default,simple,admin,"Electronics/AV Accessories & Cables/Surge Protection & Filtration",Yes,base,98.94,98.94,"White Plains, New York",US,"Panamax M8-AV-PRO 8 Outlet Power Line Conditioner and Surge protector","Shop By Manufacturer Other Add my Store to your Favorites and receive my email newsletters about new items and special promotions! Panamax M8-AV-PRO …","Shop By Manufacturer Other Add my Store to your Favorites and receive my email newsletters about new items and special promotions! Panamax M8-AV-PRO 8 Outlet Power Line Conditioner and Surge protector --> Description Payment Information Shipping Information Terms & Conditions Item Condition: NEW Warranty: 1 year Brand: Panamax Features: total of 8 protected AC power outlets in two isolated banksi…",###EMPTY###,1,1,1,1,2,4,88,###EMPTY###,,/141565030710.jpg,"Panamax M8-AV-PRO 8 Outlet Power Line Conditioner and Surge protector",/141565030710.jpg,"Panamax M8-AV-PRO 8 Outlet Power Line Conditioner and Surge protector",/141565030710.jpg,"Panamax M8-AV-PRO 8 Outlet Power Line Conditioner and Surge protector",,

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using '_category' => array(1, 3), if you want to assign products to multiple categories or

'_category' => '3', for single category must work.

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Have you tried to just enter the ID and see what happens? I don't know Ho_Import well enough, but I know the underlying AvS_FastSimpleImport well, and in that it's possible. So I'd say it should work.

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  • in my experience ho_import worked with complete path but I didn't make it using the id only. I will check documentation again. thank you for your excellent Avs_FastSimpleImport open source solution!.
    – s_h
    Feb 4, 2017 at 6:40
  • avs_fastsimpleimport displays the following example for category product relationship. using _category with ID will work? $data[] = array( '_root' => 'Default Category', '_category' => 'Test2/Test3', '_sku' => '0815', 'position' => 1 );
    – s_h
    Feb 4, 2017 at 19:24
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    Yes, it's supported. I agree it's not well documented. We have it in the test sample, see github.com/avstudnitz/AvS_FastSimpleImport/blob/master/….
    – Andreas von Studnitz
    Feb 4, 2017 at 21:21
  • Thank you. So we have to create a tree traversal hierarchy to pass that data in an array eg: '_category' => array(1, 3), on the other hand, using only the product category eg: _category => '3' directly will not work?, probably that is the reason ive failed
    – s_h
    Feb 4, 2017 at 21:33
  • array(1, 3) means that two categories with the IDs 1 and 3 are assigned, it's not a tree structure. If you just want one category, just the number (3) should be enough.
    – Andreas von Studnitz
    Feb 5, 2017 at 12:31

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