Globla attributes import issue

Hi @santifri,

I understand you’re experiencing issues with importing variable products and their global attributes. This issue can be quite frustrating, especially when it was previously working fine.

Just to clarify, the CSV file was not included. Could you please share a screenshot of the CSV file, or rather use a file sharing software like We Transfer.

You can also use screenshot sharing software like https://snipboard.io/ and paste the link here.

Looking forward to your reply.

Hi @ckadenge

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I have been doing some tests with the sample file with the original data and with mine. I have realized that the variable products included (V-Neck T-Shirt and Hoodie) also do not correctly mark ‘used for variations’ when I change their SKU, and I don’t understand why.

I am puzzled.

Thanks for your help

Do you have the ‘Parent’ column set in the ‘variation’ type product to the SKU as the ‘variable’ type it related to?

For example:

variable – Hoody – SKU123 – atrributes small,medium,large
variation – Small Hoody – SKU123-s – parent: SKU123 – attribute small
variation – Medium Hoody – SKU123-m – parent: SKU123 – attribute medium
variation – Large Hoody – SKU123-l – parent: SKU123 – attribute large

Yes, I do. But I am doing the process in two parts. First, I import the parent products and then the variations, in a second import. It is in the import of the parent products where the problem appears, as regardless of whether they have associated variations, the attribute should be marked as ‘used for variations’ if it has been set as global, don’t you agree?

In any case, I have tried it, I have imported parent products and variations in the same import and it has not worked.

I have also been testing the sample CSV with some Woo products and some of my own. The attribute is shown as global for Woo products but not for mine, even when the data is the same. But the curious thing is that it stops working if I change the SKU of the Woo products

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I woould like to share with you the files but I don’t know how to use We transfer in this forum.

Thanks

Try it with this one: https://ucarecdn.com/2db3b406-16fa-40b9-ba14-8f216f703fe5/test2.csv

Just one product with 3 variations

Is works but but not with my own data

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1KeI5YmEp0DM5I-emI6uMbbhSy9YjSo-aU9uLRrkP05E/edit?usp=sharing

Column AF is wrong – the Parent needs to be the SKU of the variable product – in this case 2001

Once I changed that, it imported ok: https://ucarecdn.com/1857ef87-a7a4-4c1a-85f4-eb4ba3055a63/Untitled.png

Thank you very much for your help, but what if I want to do the import in two steps because I have thousands of products? First the parents assigning the global attributes and a second import with the variations. And it doesn’t work, here’s an example:

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1Wd0fExz5uYi065CNjow5Se0mJpL16b7r7AcSb2Ip06s/edit?usp=sharing

Thank you again!

I’ve done it like that before – you just need to ensure the parent column in the variations import is correctly telling it which SKU the variation is a part of