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tobi commented on Bulk Import / Export

tobi — Sat, 05 Jul 2008 14:36:25 +0000

The importer can take a while at times. Its a very complex operation in the background. We are adding more hardware to make it more snappy.

tobi commented on Bulk Import / Export

tobi — Sat, 05 Jul 2008 14:35:13 +0000

Small correction to what chad said above:

You could download all products, edit prices and re-upload the CSV and it would work. However, in the process it would rename your images ( product.png becomes product_1.png ).

The problem is if you now make more changes to the CSV and upload the same csv again. It still references the images as product.png but this does not exist anymore. In this case shopify will not know what to do and you will end up without product images.

This was the issue chad ran into and we since deployed a fix for this. It’s one of those edge cases which only really shows up in a certain work flow and that’s why it never came up during QA :(

Caroline Schnapp commented on customer complaints form

Caroline Schnapp — Sat, 05 Jul 2008 03:16:18 +0000

ah ah ah Christina

Caroline Schnapp commented on Bulk Import / Export

Caroline Schnapp — Sat, 05 Jul 2008 03:10:56 +0000

If it is in an existing shop, though, it means that copying the products to another shop is extremely simple.

That’s a great feature. :-)

And that works really well, as I imported a product definition from shop A to shop B, and images are all there.

HunkyBill commented on Hay and needle question (Liquid)

HunkyBill — Sat, 05 Jul 2008 02:59:31 +0000

Heya,

If you compare what you can do with Liquid, and what you can do with Liquid in Shopify, you’ll notice there is a gap in implementation… odd eh… wish it was not so…

shopcora commented on email buyer template

shopcora — Sat, 05 Jul 2008 02:55:51 +0000

ohh I’m loving this…

http://blog.shopify.com/2008/7/4/shipping-notification-emails

Thank you for finally implementing this one JP…woohoo!!!!

Caroline Schnapp commented on Liquid Wiki Wrong?

Caroline Schnapp — Sat, 05 Jul 2008 02:53:13 +0000

Thank you, Kaushal, for getting back to me on this.

Caroline Schnapp commented on Bulk Import / Export

Caroline Schnapp — Sat, 05 Jul 2008 02:51:34 +0000

Hello HunkyBill :-)

I got a confirmation e-mail about an hour after the onset of the import of my 2 products.

Actually I did not have 4 products to import, just two. (Sorry about that). I was just testing the waters. For my client.

Products are not doubled for me. They were imported 3 times. So I have 6 products instead of 3.

The system needs a little more tweaking ;-)

We released bulk import and export for all shopify customers.

Maybe we should call it ‘in beta’.

HunkyBill commented on Bulk Import / Export

HunkyBill — Sat, 05 Jul 2008 01:19:43 +0000

Woosh…talking about letting the air out of the tire…

shopcora commented on Liquid Wiki Wrong?

shopcora — Sat, 05 Jul 2008 01:15:46 +0000

Hey Caroline, the blog on our site is actually a wordpress blog hosted on another server with a different domain name (coraboutique.com/blog)

Caroline Schnapp commented on Bulk Import / Export

Caroline Schnapp — Sat, 05 Jul 2008 00:41:21 +0000

The system is designed for bulk imports on an empty site.

Something is not right… I am uploading a very simple CSV file that I have not edited. It has been downloaded from a site A, and now I am uploading it to a site B that was previously empty, no product. It’s still uploading and there are only 4 products… It’s been 25 minutes.

It is not critical for me though.

It seems almost like there is some person on the other end sitting in an office at Jaded Pixel getting the CSV file by e-mail and adding the products by hand. ;-)

Caroline Schnapp commented on General Suggestions

Caroline Schnapp — Sat, 05 Jul 2008 00:29:45 +0000

You can use the capture Tag for #5.

5. String concatenation within expressions, could provide a very limited ability to perform simple logic AND operations. Something like {%if {str1 + str2} == ’?’ %}

It might not be very elegant…

{% capture myConcatenation %}{{ str1 }}{{ str2 }}{% endcapture %}
{% if myConcatenation == 'someString' %}

Caroline Schnapp commented on General Suggestions

Caroline Schnapp — Fri, 04 Jul 2008 23:24:08 +0000

I added the following case:

{% if user.name includes 'tobi' %} 
  hi tobias
{% endif %}

To this page: http://wiki.shopify.com/UsingLiquid

It’s kind of dumb, and I probably will come up with something better tomorrow.

Caroline Schnapp commented on Hay and needle question (Liquid)

Caroline Schnapp — Fri, 04 Jul 2008 23:20:30 +0000

Solution to the hay and needle problem: the use of includes.

Thank you, Tobi.

{% if whatever includes 'tobi' %} 
  hi tobias
{% endif %}

Caroline Schnapp commented on General Suggestions

Caroline Schnapp — Fri, 04 Jul 2008 23:12:07 +0000

Oh my God!

I will add this to the Wiki!

Caroline Schnapp commented on tag problem with new collections

Caroline Schnapp — Fri, 04 Jul 2008 23:06:50 +0000

Tobi,

There are two things: collection.tags – This shows tags of all products after taking current url filter tags into account. collection.all_tags – This shows all tags ignoring current tags in the url.
then there is tags directly which is just an alias to collection.tags.

Is there a way to access the active tag if a tag is used to filter the collection shown on the page?

Something like…

collection.active_tag

All I see now is this filter: highlight_active_tag.

How do we read the active filter/tag by Caroline Schnapp

Caroline Schnapp — Fri, 04 Jul 2008 23:00:42 +0000

I am trying to read the URL from within collection.liquid. The URL contains a tag filter.

Let me give you an example of such URL:

http://shop.myshopify.com/collections/playback-graphics/compilation

From within collection.liquid, I must determine if the last argument in the URL is ‘compilation’ as the markup will be very different on that page in that’s the case. ‘compilation’ is a tag, it is the tag used to filter the collection.

The following Output will output this: /collections/playback-graphics:

I am able to print all tags used by products within the collection, and using the filter highlight_active_tag the active tag will get printed with a special class-ed span next to it.

{% for tag in tags %} {{ tag | highlight_active_tag }} {% endfor %}

But how do I read the active tag? How do I get a handle to it?

Caroline Schnapp commented on Hay and needle question (Liquid)

Caroline Schnapp — Fri, 04 Jul 2008 22:51:42 +0000

For this hay:

<a title="Show products matching tag comp-1" href="/collections/playback-graphics/comp-1"><span class="active">comp-1</span></a> <a title="Show products matching tag compilation" href="/collections/playback-graphics/compilation">compilation</a> <a title="Show products matching tag space" href="/collections/playback-graphics/space">space</a>

I may look for that needle:

<span class="active">comp-

That is SUPER ugly solution.

I just need to find the Liquid output that gives me the active tag/filter.

Caroline Schnapp commented on Hay and needle question (Liquid)

Caroline Schnapp — Fri, 04 Jul 2008 22:47:10 +0000

I really don’t see a non-javascript solution for this.

Caroline Schnapp commented on Hay and needle question (Liquid)

Caroline Schnapp — Fri, 04 Jul 2008 22:45:46 +0000

NO! My solution does not work at all.

I still cannot read the ‘active’ tag. The filter tag.

Oh my god..