🙋 HOW TO HAVE ACCESS TO IMPORTS

Click on Import in the menu bar. You will be redirect directly to the Import tab where you can set up the catalogs in order to integrate them.

Types of products, update and format choices

On the left side for products and formats choice, you can select:

1. The company on which the integration need to be done

2. The product type to integrate

   1. The type of update:

      1. Import Add: to use for a first import or when you integrate a new catalog including products that already exist on your database. In this case, only the unknown products in iWiCatalog will be integrated. Others will be ignored.

      2. Import Update: all products of the catalog to be integrated will be processed. The new ones will be integrated and the former ones updated.

      3. Import Complete: in this case, you decide to delete all products from your catalog (only those belonging to the selected product type) to integrate the products present in the new catalog. When you choose this option, a pop-up window will appear to warn you on this choice.

3. The format: select the format you want for the import

4. The catalog: to select the file you can push the button Choisir un fichier (“select a file”) or drag and drop the file into the Choisir un fichier (“choose a file”) area.

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The different settings

On the right side for imports settings, you can specify:

1. If you want to Run a backup before import of your catalog.

2. Integrate new products in:

   1. Design: products are in a non-finished state and they are not for exports.

   2. Production: products will be included in your futur exported catalogs.

3. According to the product type and the chosen format you have various possibilities:

   1. Force if errors: in certain cases, the programme will be put into error because of inconsistencies in the catalog ; the errors will be indicated in the report of the import. If it is the case and thanks to this possibility, we allow you to integrate a catalog including errors by checking this box. It is recommended to make a first import, without activating it, in order to control the types of errors present in the file.

   2. Groupment: if your company includes imports rights when in Groupment mode, you will have the possibility to make catalogs' imports specific to theses companies. However, the company to import must be known by iWiCatalog.

   3. Keep old values: the data to integrate depend on the formats. Activate this option if you don’t want to lose datas, imported from a catalog or registered manually, that aren’t known by certain formats.

   4. Erase ordering product code: this option allows you to put all the products missing from the catalog in erased state.

   5. Overwrite the order code: when you created your catalog you decided to don’t have the same order codes than your supplier. This option, yes or no, allows you to not lose this important information.

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   6. Erase existing prices: this yes or no check mark allows you to save the prices referenced in your iWiCatalog. Thus, you can chose the type of prices to update or not.

4. Remove lens packaging : if this check mark is activated, all lens packagings in the catalog will be removed from your database.

5. Keeping hidden combinations: by default, when you are importing, we remove all lens associations to submit the ones in your new catalog. But sometimes you may have declared manually in iWiCatalog some hidden combinations whose information you don’t want to lose because they describe precisely your lenses in the Opto11 format (for example). Activate this check mark to keep those particular combinations.

Default settings

This option gives you the possibility to have a consistency of settings in the different catalogs that you will have to integrate.

By defining default settings, you will always keep the same activation of your options during each import and avoid potential differences between two imports.

Click on the Save button to take into account the changes made.

Settings depend on the:

• selected product type

• chosen format