Importing documents preformatted using file import feature

Hello @webmastergopi

Thank you for reaching out! I’m glad to see you’re making good progress with your document imports into BetterDocs. I’d be happy to clarify your questions on document formatting and bulk tagging to help streamline your process.

Regarding formatting, after importing your content using the BetterDocs-sample-data.csv file, you can indeed customize the appearance without having to format each document individually.

BetterDocs allows you to use custom CSS, which can modify elements like alignment, font color, font size, and more across all documents in bulk. There are specific CSS classes already designated for titles, paragraphs, and other content elements, which makes it easier to apply consistent formatting to all 650 documents at once. You can use these classes to set up CSS rules that will apply universally. You can find a demonstration of this setup in our demo video here: https://d.pr/v/D4li0F

For bulk tagging, yes, you can tag documents in bulk after importing. This can be done efficiently through the bulk edit options in BetterDocs. For a walkthrough, you can refer to the video here: https://d.pr/v/nx5KFj

Please let us know if you need further assistance with these processes or if you have any other questions.

Thank you

Hello @zebaafiashama Many thanks for your reply. I tried following the video clip https://d.pr/v/D4li0F and what I see is that you are going to one document to set it up manually and then inspecting the style of the document and copying the style change you want to apply to all documents and then adding it to the custom CSS. Are there steps you can provide just to be sure that I am not doing this incorrectly? And when I look at my set up it looks a bit different. It looks like Betterdoc in my setup is inheriting global defaults from WordPress / Elementor and there is nothing betterdoc specific that I can change to see the change.

Hi there @webmastergopi

Thank you for sharing the video and details of what you’re looking to achieve with BetterDocs. I’m glad to hear that the import was successful and that you’re exploring the possibilities for formatting and bulk updates.

For your formatting requirements, here’s the CSS you can use to center-align headings and paragraphs, set the heading color to red, and increase the paragraph font size to 22px with a dark blue color:

#betterdocs-single-content h2 {
    color: red !important;
    text-align: center;
}

#betterdocs-single-content p {
    color: darkblue !important;
    font-size: 22px !important;
    text-align: center;
}

You can add this CSS to your theme’s custom CSS area from WordPress Dashboard => Appearance => Customize => Additional CSS. This should apply the format across the docs.

Thank you

• This reply was modified 3 weeks, 3 days ago by Zeba Afia Shama.

The?formatting worked well thank you. It turns out that when I was importing the file with 653 songs, 83 songs did not load. I can’t seem to tell if there is any issue or special characters that made these 83 fall out. Can you please advise what are the likely issues that cause fall outs? I am not able to see any anomalies in those documents.

and is it possible turn off TOC for only a specific category and keep it on for others? The new category that I have created, I want the TOC off but on the rest that pre-existed I want to use the TOC. 

Thank you for getting me this close

Hi webmastergopi?,

Thanks for letting us know the update. I am glad to know that the formatting worked well on your end.

Regarding the missing 83 docs: Will you please tell me if you have added those docs to the category properly? If you don’t assign the docs under the category, then those will not visible.

Regarding turning off TOC: Actually, when you enable the TOC, it will be visible on all Single docs pages. Unfortunately, I am really sorry to say that it is not possible to show the TOC on the specific docs. It will be visible on all Single Docs pages where there are headings.

Hope you understand. Please feel free to let me know if you have further queries or need assistance.

Thank you.

Dear Amit, thank you for your input. here is a video link to show you the data file for the remaining 83 documents https://www.loom.com/share/7625a911ecdf496ba8f42e7bfb43e9dd?sid=8ca899e7-702c-4cc3-9770-453ce40d4bde

I have the same category and category slug as the remaining 500+ that successfully imported. Can you think of anything else I can do to get them imported?

Thank you

Hi?webmastergopi?,

Thanks for sharing the screencast with us. It seems that there is an issue with the docs that are not getting imported. Will you please generate a sample CSV file from the WP Admin Dashboard > BetterDocs > Settings > Import/Export > Import > from here, download the sample CSV file. Please make the changes to that file and then try again to import the docs.

Hope this will resolve your issue. Let us know how it goes.
Thank you.

Dear Amit,

I tried moving my data over from old file to a new file and I do not believe it is the issue with the template as over 500+ records from that same file had imported successfully.

here is are a few records from the list of 83 that are not loading. I really do not see any issue in the data but I am convinced that the issue is most likely in the data in the Docs content and my eyes are not trained in xml to be able to spot the issue. I would attach the file itself here but don’t see a way to share it for you to take a look.

Here

Docs Title Docs Slug Docs Content Featured Image Category Name Category Slug Knowledge Base Knowledge Base Slug Status
Yuga Yuga Ke Avatara Sai Rama Sai Krishna Sai Baba yuga-yuga-ke-avatara-sai-rama-sai-krishna-sai-baba Yuga Yuga Ke Avatara Sai Rama Sai Krishna Sai Baba

Baba Sai Baba Baba Sai Baba ( Yuga Yuga … )

Allah Yesu Nanak Sai

Buddha Zohrashtra Mahavira Sai

Ram Rahim Jai Ram Rahim Jai Ram Rahim Jai Ram (2)

----------- Bhajan Book bhajan-book publish
Yuga Avatara Parthi Vihara Hari Narayana Om yuga-avatara-parthi-vihara-hari-narayana-om Yuga Avatara Parthi Vihara Hari Narayana Om

Paramananda Satchidananda Sri Sai Shankara Om

Parama Dayakara Paapa Samhara Vibhuti Sundara Om( Paramananda Satchidananda … )

Shirdi Pureeshwara Parthi Pureeshwara Prema Sayeeshwara Om( Paramananda Satchidananda … )

Sri sai sankara Om

----------- Bhajan Book bhajan-book publish
Vishwadhari Shiva Avatari vishwadhari-shiva-avatari Vishwadhari Shiva Avatari

Sai Shankara Namo Namo ( Vishwadhari Shiva … )

Mathura Natha Narayana Hari

Sai Shankara Namo Namo (Sathya) (2)

----------- Bhajan Book bhajan-book publish
Vighneshwara Vinayaka vighneshwara-vinayaka Vighneshwara Vinayaka

Vishwadhara Namostuthey

Namostuthey Namostuthey ( Vishwadhara … )

Suramuni Vanditha Vinayaka

Bhava Bhaya Nasha Vinayaka

Sharanam Sharanam Vinayaka (2)

----------- Bhajan Book bhajan-book publish
Vidya Dayini Bhagavathi vidya-dayini-bhagavathi Vidya Dayini Bhagavathi

Namo Namo Namo Sai Narayani ( Vidya Dayini … )

Chinmaya Roopini Naada Swaroopini ( Namo Namo … )

----------- Bhajan Book bhajan-book publish
Varuvai Varuvai Varuvai Amma varuvai-varuvai-varuvai-amma Varuvai Varuvai Varuvai Amma

Thiruve Uruvai Varuvai Amma

Irulai Neekkida Varuvai Amma

Undan Arulai Pozhindhidu Sai Amma ( Varuvai Varuvai … )

Kalyani Karumari Kamakshi Niye

Mahalakshmi Matangi Meenakshi Niye

Varalakshmi Varahi Visalakshi Niye

Ulagalum Maye Prashanthi Thaye

Amma Amma Amma Amma

----------- Bhajan Book bhajan-book publish

I am still stuck with not being able to import the 83 records despite moving the data over to a new template.

Hi?webmastergopi?,

Thanks for sharing the details. It seems that there is an issue with the XML file that you are trying to insert. Will you please provide us the CSV/XML file for these docs so that I can check and assist you?

I look forward to hearing from you.
Thank you.

Dear Amit, you are correct the document content field where I had the xml had some special character on some of these rows. I was able to import the remaining records as well. Thank you for all the help

Hi?webmastergopi?,

Thank you so much for letting us know the update. I am so glad to know that your issue is resolved.

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