Skip to content

Export Products from Magento

This task will export product details from Magento in XML format. The results can be filtered if required.

Settings

Connection

Required
The Magento connection to use. See the Connecting to Magento v1 article if you require more information on how to create/manage connections.

Export All

Required
Set to true to export all products, set to false to export only those products which have been modified since the last time the task was run.

Export Detailed

Required
Set to true to export detailed information for each product, set to false to export only basic information.

Export From

Required
The rolling date to export new/modified products from, when Export All is set to false. Will update automatically each time the task runs.

Start Date

Optional
No products created before this date will be exported, even if they are modified.

Output File

Required
The name of the file to export the products to.

Filter Property

Optional
The property the filter is to be based upon. The property name should match the API field name, as seen in the output file.

Filter Type

Optional
The following types of filter are available:

  • eq - Returns records where the property matches the specified value
  • gt - Returns records where the property is greater than the specified value
  • lt - Returns records where the property is less than the specified value.
  • like - Returns records where the property contains the specified value.
  • isnull - Returns records where the property is null.
  • notnull - Returns records where the property is not null.

Filter Value

Optional
The value the filter is to be based upon. When using the eq filter type, you can specify multiple values by separating them with commas, or using the 'Use a list' option after clicking the ellipsis (...) button.

Zynk Settings

See Common Task Settings.

Examples

Sample output file:

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<ArrayOfProduct>
  <Product>
    <Fields>
      <Field Name="country_of_manufacture" Value="" />
      <Field Name="msrp_enabled" Value="2" />
      <Field Name="msrp_display_actual_price_type" Value="4" />
      <Field Name="msrp" Value="" />
      <Field Name="is_recurring" Value="0" />
      <Field Name="recurring_profile" Value="" />
      <Field Name="page_layout" Value="" />
    </Fields>
    <type>simple</type>
    <created_at>2014-01-17 14:00:25</created_at>
    <status>1</status>
    <options_container>container2</options_container>
    <category_ids />
    <description>test</description>
    <tier_price />
    <visibility>4</visibility>
    <short_description>test</short_description>
    <required_options>0</required_options>
    <url_key>test</url_key>
    <updated_at>2014-01-17 14:00:25</updated_at>
    <websites>
      <string>1</string>
    </websites>
    <url_path>test.html</url_path>
    <has_options>0</has_options>
    <product_id>1</product_id>
    <tax_class_id>2</tax_class_id>
    <type_id>simple</type_id>
    <set>4</set>
    <categories />
    <enable_googlecheckout>1</enable_googlecheckout>
    <sku>PROD001</sku>
    <name>test</name>
    <weight>2.0000</weight>
    <price>10.0000</price>
    <group_price />
  </Product>
</ArrayOfProduct>

Sample XSLT file to use to transform the output file from this task to the Zynk XML Products format, ready for import into Sage. This is also available in the Auto Mapper.

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>
<xsl:stylesheet version="1.0" xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform">

  <xsl:output method="xml" standalone="yes" indent="yes"/>

  <xsl:template match="/">
    <Company>
      <Products>
        <xsl:for-each select="ArrayOfProduct/Product">
          <xsl:call-template name="Product" />
        </xsl:for-each>
      </Products>
    </Company>
  </xsl:template>

  <xsl:template name="Product">
    <!-- Only add products that have a price -->
    <xsl:choose>
      <xsl:when test="price > 0">
        <Product>
          <Sku><xsl:value-of select="sku"/></Sku>
          <Name><xsl:value-of select="name"/></Name>
          <Description><xsl:value-of select="description"/></Description>
          <SalePrice><xsl:value-of select="price"/></SalePrice>
          <UnitWeight><xsl:value-of select="weight"/></UnitWeight>
        </Product>
      </xsl:when>
      <xsl:otherwise><!-- Do nothing --></xsl:otherwise>
    </xsl:choose>
  </xsl:template>

</xsl:stylesheet>