Round measurements in your Tailored Exports

Type: New | Feature: Productivity | Available in Enterprise Edition only | 📖 Read the doc

Improve the readability of your product information exports by defining rounding operations for your measurement values! Decide if you want the values to be rounded, rounded up or rounded down. You can also set the number of digits after the separator. Lighter and more precise product data will be greatly appreciated.

Tailored Imports

Type: New | Feature: Productivity | Available in Enterprise Edition only | 📖 Read the doc

Importing data into Akeneo PIM is imperative to your PXM workflows. With Tailored Imports you can easily transform, map and import data files that don't match your Akeneo PIM catalog structure. This saves you from doing manual and tedious data prep work in spreadsheets. Now you can map your sources to your Akeneo attributes, and voila! You're ready to import virtually any XLSX file structure you receive.

Tailored Imports supports more attribute types

Type: Improvement | Feature: Productivity | Available in Enterprise Edition only | 📖 Read the doc

Tailored Imports allows you to easily transform, map, and import data files that don't match your Akeneo PIM catalog structure. Now you can map columns in your source data to additional attribute types in your Akeneo PIM. These types include multiple-link Reference Entities and single-link Reference Entities, as well as Asset Collections. This helps by offering smoother mapping and faster importing.

Replace Families and Change Cases with Tailored Imports

Type: Improvement | Feature: Productivity | Available in Enterprise Edition only | 📖 Read the doc

Make importing data into your Akeneo PIM even easier with the expanded functionality of Tailored Imports. First, with the family replacement operation you can replace your source data to match the correct family in Akeneo PIM. For example, if your source data categorizes your printers as 'Printers,' you can use the family replacement operation to assign any products labeled 'Printers' to be 'All-in-One Printers' to match the correct family. Next up, you can utilize the change case operation to do exactly as it says -- to change the case of your text values to match your data! Uploading a file that has values in all lower case? Use the change case functionality to capitalize them. With additional operations you'll save time and the headache of manual data cleansing.

Tailored Imports Supports Price Attributes

Type: Improvement | Feature: Productivity | Available in Enterprise Edition only | 📖 Read the doc

We have expanded the ability to import your data into Akeneo PIM by adding an additional attribute type: the price attribute. So whether it’s your MSRP, MAP, Sales Price or other standard prices you store in Akeneo PIM, you can use Tailored Imports to map it to the correct price attribute source for easy uploading.

Additional Data Cleaning with Tailored Imports

Type: Improvement | Feature: Productivity | Available in Enterprise Edition only | 📖 Read the doc

Import your product data with greater ease with these continuous improvements to Tailored Imports. Now you can clean up HTML characters and make transformations like turning ™ into ™. Save time by removing consecutive whitespaces and trimming unwanted whitespaces at the beginning and end of your cells, too.

Reference Entity Replacement Operations via Tailored Imports

Type: New | Feature: Productivity | Available in Enterprise Edition only | 📖 Read the doc

Reduce manual work by mapping values in an import file to reference entities in Akeneo PIM. A common use case for this functionality is the need to update colors in a supplier’s file to match the color names in Akeneo PIM. For example, your supplier may use color names such as “sky blue” or “royal blue” but you need the color to be “blue” to align with your product catalog. It would be time-consuming to manually update every color value in a spreadsheet. Save time by using Tailored Imports to map the supplier’s color names to your desired color name with the new replacement options for reference entity single link or reference entity multiple link attributes.

Search and Replace Functionality in Tailored Imports

Type: New | Feature: Productivity | Available in Enterprise Edition only | 📖 Read the doc

Now you can easily find and replace specific words in Text and Text Area attributes in Tailored Imports. Add up to ten replacement words at a time and spend less time manually editing your files before importing them.

Measurements in Table Attributes

Type: New | Feature: Productivity | Available in Enterprise Edition only| 📖 Read the doc

Take advantage of measurements when building table attributes. This is particularly helpful when creating tables with dimensions. Next time you need a table to display your product and package dimensions utilize width, length, and height and select your desired unit of measurement.

Use Existing Options in Table Attributes

Type: New | Feature: Productivity | Available in Enterprise Edition only

Creating a Table Attribute has never been easier. With the ability to import options from an existing attribute, you’ll save time when creating your table. For example, if you are creating a Food Composition table, and you already have a list of ingredients under an existing attribute. You can now import the options from that attribute, like sugar or flour, in order to create the options for that new label.

Automate SFTP Imports and Exports

Type: New | Feature: Productivity | Available in Enterprise Edition only | 📖 Read the doc

Connect your product imports and exports to remote SFTP storage servers to securely transfer your data to and from Akeneo PIM. Simplify and streamline the import and export of data by using the Properties tab to turn on automation and run jobs on an automated, predefined schedule.

Products imports & exports compatible with UUID

Type: New | Feature: Productivity | Available in Enterprise Edition & Community Edition| 📖 Read the doc

You can include a column for the UUID identifier when exporting products from Akeneo PIM. All products in Akeneo PIM are assigned a UUID so including the UUID column in an export file will make it easy to update products if you need to re-import the file back into Akeneo PIM. The UUID column is hidden by default. This column may be added to exports by turning on the “export with product UUID option” to update the export profile. When the export with product UUID option is activated associated products and exported media files will be displayed with the UUID identifier instead of the SKU attribute.

Product Identifier Changes: SKUs Optional and UUIDs

Type: New | Feature: Governance | Available in Enterprise Edition & Community Edition | 📖 Read the doc

SKU is no longer mandatory when creating products in Akeneo PIM and we're introducing a new technical product identifier, the UUID. The UUID is now available to provide more flexibility in how products are identified and updated. With these changes you will be able to create products without a SKU within Akeneo PIM or via API. You may also remove the SKU from a family so that the SKU field will no longer appear on the product creation screen and the product edit form. Before beginning to create products without SKUs, please ensure that leaving the SKU field empty won’t negatively impact your existing workflows, especially any synchronization configured with third-party systems that might use SKU as a key entry. Please also update your API configuration with the newly available API endpoints using the UUID as a technical identifier.

Reference Entities in Table Attribute

Type: New | Feature: Governance | Available in Enterprise Edition only | 📖 Read the doc

To really benefit from Akeneo PIM data structure, it is now possible to use Reference Entities as a column type in your table attributes. Imagine you have your colors listed as records in a reference entity, you can use them as options in your table in a couple of clicks! Quite a time saver!