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How to Export Articles to a Specific Channel via CSV?

You want to export some of a product's articles to a channel but not others? You can do that easily with the PANDA CSV.

Your CSV should contain two types of article activation columns:

1.One column titled "a_active".

2.One or more columns titled "a_active[channel sign]". Please note that "channel sign" is a placeholder. In your CSV, the column headers will contain the actual 4-character channel abbreviations/signs in square brackets, such as "[zade]" for Zalando.de or "[amde]" for Amazon.de.

For each article, these columns may contain one of the following values:

•1 (=activate)

•0 (=deactivate)

If "a_active" is not set to "1", the corresponding article will not go live on any channel. The column "a_active" works like a switch you can use to deactivate the article entirely.

Set "a_active[channel sign]" to "1" to activate the article for the corresponding channel. Only if both "a_active" AND "a_active[channel sign]" are set to "1", will the article be activated on that channel.

EXAMPLE:
We want to sell our product "T-shirt Streetstyle" on Zalando.de (zade) and Amazon.de (amde). The activation columns for each of the product's articles are configured differently.

a_active

a_active[zade]

a_active[amde]

Exported?

1

1

1

Article exported to Zalando.de and Amazon.de.

0

1

1

Article not exported to any channel.

1

0

1

Article is exported to Amazon.de.

1

1

0

Article is exported to Zalando.de

ATTENTION:
Excluding an article that exists in the system (or even the entire product) from the import does not deactivate it. To do so, you must set the activation state to "0" as described above.

TIP:
You can find more information about the channel-specific article activation process here.