How to Customize Import / Export

This chapter describes how to create and customize connectors to handle imports and exports in your Akeneo PIM project.

Note

You can take a look at the reference documentation to understand the overall architecture and the different concepts Import / Export

• How to Create a New Connector
  • Configure a job
  • Add a new step
  • Configure a job instance
  • Create a job instance via the command
  • Execute our new job instance
  • Configure the UI for our new job
  • Add a new field to the job instance form
  • Add a tab to the job edit form
• How to Import Products from a XML File
  • Prerequisite
  • Overview
  • Create the Connector
  • Configure the Job
  • Create the Reader
  • Translate Job and Step labels in the UI
  • Use the new Connector
  • Adding support for invalid items export
  • Create an XML file iterator class
  • Create an XML writer class
  • Plug it all together
  • Try it out
• How to Clean a CSV File During a Product Import
  • Create the Connector
  • Create the ArrayConverter
  • Configure the Job
  • Translate Job and Step labels in the UI
  • Use the new Connector
• Automate imports/exports
  • The batch job command
  • Scheduling the jobs