I checked and updated, but still the same.

seems to be fixed with Joomla 3.0
I strogly advise not to use the outdated Joomla 2.5

Hi

The "Instructions" button in the component's control panel leads to a page at JoomlaWorks with the following error message:

"Access Denied
You do not have permissions to access this page."

Even though I'm logged in at JoomlaWorks.

The same applies to the "Manual" link on your website

Hi Sean,
it should lead to this forum. Sorry I forgot to update the link in the component after the K2 forum was moved.
Thank you to point that out. I will change it in the next version

hi there,

I want to use the import export tool to update the image and image_gallery which I thought would be easier with this tool.
However I'm struggling with the import.

On a test-system I've got J3.4.1 and k2 2.6.8 installed. k2_import export is 2.2 based on windows Xampp

In my testfile I've got "ID","Image","Images for the Gallery" with two rows of data. The IDs from the csv-file are the same than the item IDs within k2_items-table and charset is utf8.
I always end up with the error-massage shown below.
- I then updated components/com_k2_views/item/view.html.php manually due to the date issue. no effect.
- I then updated to k2 2.6.9, no effect.
- My item titles and aliases are getting overwritten by "imported-item-2015-07-09-10-23-xx"

What are the minimum values to only "update" k2 items by selected id given in the csv file and which options shall be selected to configute only for an update?

many thanks, Peer

the errormessage is as follows:
importing items, please stand by
items were imported, but with some problems:
row: 1 - save item -
"" is not a valid date in the "created" column. Will set to 2015-07-09 10:41:28
"" is not a valid date in the "Publish Up" column. Will set to 2015-07-09 10:41:28
"" is not a valid date in the "Publish Down" column. Will set to 0000-00-00 00:00:00 what means "never"
row: 1 - save image - Local file doesn't exist. tmp/k2_import/C2-Leather-Basic.png
row: 2 - save item -
"" is not a valid date in the "created" column. Will set to 2015-07-09 10:41:28
"" is not a valid date in the "Publish Up" column. Will set to 2015-07-09 10:41:28
"" is not a valid date in the "Publish Down" column. Will set to 0000-00-00 00:00:00 what means "never"
could not copy the file tmp/k2_import/C1-White-Semi.png
could not copy the file tmp/k2_import/C1-White-Basic.png
could not copy the file tmp/k2_import/C1-White-Full.png
row: 2 - save image - Local file doesn't exist. tmp/k2_import/C1-White-Semi.png
Row: 2 / memory peak: 7.5 MB
Import finished

Hi,
check the date and time formats in your CSV file. It should be "YYYY-MM-DD hh:mm:ss" e.g. "2012-05-16 15:17:14". If you saved the file with a spreadsheet software like Excel or Openoffice check the CSV file with a text editor before importing.

Where did you store the images for the import?

HI,

I didn'nt had the datefiels within my export. My colums were only "ID","Image","Images for the Gallery"
However, I tried further on an added the colums "title","created","publish_up","publish_down" from the database.

I suggest that the title always gets rewritten e.g. the alias and the import script loops the date fields.
With these fields added to the import I don't get an error anymore. That was not what I suggested for an update for the image and gallery but it works in the meantime.

I suppose that you can't reproduce this, don't you?

Peer

Hi,
sorry I do not understand you.

According to your first post you had the date-fields:
- created
- Published Up
- Published Down

For recreating the alias field just do set "Alias" to "take standard value" in the "associate the fields" window or delete the column in the CSV file all together

A new version (2.3) of this extension was published with some nice new features:

• Import/Export category images
• images/gallery images/category images/attachments can be imported from an URL
• easier selection of sub-categories during the import
• Place items into correct category if the import has to overwrite based on ID
• Help link updated
• path for images/gallery images/category images/attachments can be anywhere on the server, does not need to be under the joomla folder

find the new version here: www.individual-it.net/en/Joomla/#27
If you already bought this extension please also check if your download link is still valid. You get the update for free if your download link is still active. It stays active for 10 days for every EUR you have paid.

Hi,

Just purchased this tool and it's working great.
However I'm using two different K2 plugins for adding multiple categories and extra field groups per item.
Is it possible to import item into multiple categories?
How about import also the information of all Extra Field Groups into item (not only one)?

Please advice.

Thanks.

Hi Victor.
Multiple categories or multiple extra field groups are not possible with the K2 Import/Export extension.
How do you plugins manage the multiple categories?

Hi,
I'm using these following plugins:
1. For multiple extra fields: www.joomreem.com/multiple-extra-fields-groups-mefg-for-k2.html
2. For multiple categories: www.netpin.gr/extensions/item/1-k2-additonal-categories

Hope you can add some support for these plugins.

Thanks.

Hi,

I have existing K2 items created but need to import over the top of them based on new custom field values. The only real field that i can use that is unique to each item is the 'alias' field.

Title will not work because some items have the exact same title with only the alias to separate them.

How can re-import a csv using your extension and only target those items with a specific alias.

Please advise.

Thanks,
Ryan.

hi Ryan,
can you use the "ID" to overwrite? That one should not change

Hi,

i followed the instructions from gavick.com mentioned in the following post to use the item alias within the image name.
www.gavick.com/forums/general-discussion/seo-k2-image-18208

I changed all recent files according to the following instructions:Code works for all manually uploaded images.

Actually I'm trying to change your "k2import.php" which is the only script I found to handle the images.
on line 865: $handle->file_new_name_body = md5("Image".$this->_k2_item_id);
on line 1138: $image_name = $image_savepath . md5("Image".$items[$item_count]->id) . ".jpg";

Everything I do, I dont get the alias placed within the imagename. May you give me a hint how to appropriate change the code for my needs?

many thanks in advance

Peer

That would be a bigger change, because in line 865 you have no access to the alias.
The alias is created with the code starting from line 89
you would have to save that information e.g. in a variable $this->alias and use it in the saveImage() method

I've tried using the import tool - v2.3 and have managed to upload the items but not the images. I've even downloaded libreoffice specially as I was having so many difficulties. I have the images in a directory on the server and initially managed to upload some, although I needed to open the files to see the images. I've exported the category and then reimported to make sure that the dates are correct and I get the message that the image is not present in the specified location. I've tried uploading them as a zip to import but I just get a timeout when it is trying to import the file as there are a lot of them. Can you help please?

Hi Madeleine,
make sure in the CSV file the full path of the images are give. On a UNIX/LINUX system this probably would be something like /home/www/......

Hi, the path I'm using is home/domainname/public_html/ so should be fine. I've checked it against the products that already have images and it matches, except that the folder that they are kept in is different.
Any other ideas?

please try to use a / at the beginning so it becomes /home/domainname/public_html/