Uploading catalog data

Use the Catalog Upload feature to upload catalog data in your CSV file or compressed file (.zip) into the database.

You can also load this data in XML format. If you choose to create and use an XML formatted file, ensure that your file uses the CSV column names as the XML element names.

Before you begin

Ensure that you complete the steps in one of the following topics:

About this task

WebSphere Commerce Enterprise If you are working in an extended site store, you cannot use Catalog Upload to load data for creating, updating, or deleting catalog objects that belong to your catalog asset store. To load data for catalog objects that belong to your catalog asset store, you must switch the store that you are working in to be your catalog asset store.

Procedure

Open the Catalogs tool.
From the toolbar, click the Create New icon; then select Catalog Upload.
In the New Catalog Upload page:
1. Browse for the file or compressed file (.zip) that you want to upload.
2. Select the file encoding that applies to your catalog data:
  
  UTF-8
  
  This encoding is the default encoding. English uses this encoding, and some other languages can also use this encoding.
  
  UTF-16
  
  This encoding is large enough to cover all languages.
  
  GB2312
  
  This encoding is for simplified Chinese used in People's Republic of China.
  
  Big5
  
  This encoding is for traditional Chinese encoding that is used in Taiwan, Hong Kong, and Macau.
  
  Windows Latin-1
  
  This encoding supports more characters than the English language, such as the copyright symbol, .
  
  ISO 8859-1
  
  This encoding is used for languages in the Americas, Western Europe, Oceania, and much of Africa.
  
  ISO 8859-15
  
  This encoding is used for some European languages, and also contains the euro sign €.
  
  KS C 5601 (KS X 1001)
  
  This encoding is used for Korean.
  
  Shift-JIS
  
  This encoding is used for Japanese.
3. Select the target master catalog or sales catalog you want to upload to. The first catalog in the target catalog list is the master catalog.
Click Save and Close.
After you upload the file, the server uploads the data into the catalog. The total time for the upload to complete depends on how much data you are uploading.

From the explorer tree, click Catalog Uploads to check your uploads.

The Catalog Uploads list is displayed.

Option	Description
File name	The name of the uploaded file or compressed file.
Size	The size of the uploaded file in kilobytes.
User name	The identifier of the user who uploaded the file.
Target catalog	The target master catalog or sales catalog your catalog data is uploaded to.
Start time	The time the catalog upload process begins.
End time	The time the catalog upload process ends.
Status	The status of the catalog upload. Idle The initial status when the catalog upload is waiting to be started. Processing The file or the compressed file is uploaded to the server and is submitted for publishing. Successful The file is published without any errors or exception messages. Failed The file was submitted for publishing, but publishing did not complete. There are errors or exception messages.
Server path	The server file path of the uploaded file. This column is not shown by default.
Upload time	The time the uploaded file is uploaded to the server. This column is not shown by default.
Unique ID	The internal unique identifier of the catalog upload. This column is not shown by default.

Select your catalog upload from the Catalog Uploads list view.

The properties page for the selected upload is displayed. An extra section Status is shown on the properties page when the upload completes or fails. This section contains a more detailed status of the selected catalog upload. Check your summary report for more details. The summary report contains the following information for your upload operation:


Catalog Upload summary information	Description
Business Object Configuration	The name of the business object configuration file that is used to load your data.
Data loader mode	The mode that is specified for the upload. This value can be Insert, Replace, or Delete.
Batch size	The batch size value that is specified in your configuration file.
Commit count	The commit count value that is specified in your configuration file.
Error Tolerance Level	The error tolerance level that is specified in your configuration file. If your upload process reaches this level, the upload operation fails.
Error Count	The number of errors generated.
Amount of data processed	If you are using the default CSV reader, this number indicates the number of lines that are processed in the CSV source file.
Amount of business objects processed	The number of objects that are returned from the data reader. One data object returned might be constructed into multiple business objects. But in most cases, one data object returned is constructed into one business object.
Amount of business objects committed	The number of constructed business objects that are saved in the database or in the files. This value depends on how the data writer is configured.
Data loader initialization time	The initialization time of the data loader.
Data loader execution began	The start time of the data load operation in seconds.
Data loader execution ended	The end time of the data load operation in seconds.
Data loader completed in	The total running time of the data load in seconds.
Total flush time	The total time that it takes to call the Java Database Connectivity (JDBC) batch execution. This information is only useful if the JDBC batch is enabled (that is, the batch size is greater than 1.) If the JDBC batch is enabled, then it is the total time spent to run all the SQL statements that are required to upload your information.
Total commit time	The total time that it takes to call the database commit. The time is typically small.
CSV file location	The location of the file that your are loading.
Affected tables, including Table name, and Affected umber of rows	The names of the database tables that are updated, and the number of rows that are updated for each table.

A sample summary report:

Sample summary report for Catalog Upload

Optional: If your catalog upload fails or your catalog upload is successfully uploaded, you might want to remove the entry from the Catalog Uploads list view:
- In the Catalog Upload list view, right-click the catalog upload entry that you want to remove; then select Delete. The catalog upload entry is removed from the list view, but the catalog upload action is not affected.

Results

After you complete these steps, you can view and modify the new catalog data in the Catalogs tool. For example, you can change the description of a product or add merchandising associations.