Gidday fellow K2 users,I am trying to develop a new website for my work and need to import 'ALOT' of pre existing csv data. It is for a magazine company i a need to make seperate catergories for each issue of the magazine. The data as it stands has a column showing what issue of the magazine it came from. I need a way to get this to show up in the items so i can place it in the proper catergory once everything is imported. It looks like the K2 import tool is going to do most of the work for me but i cant make it auto select the catergory from the csv data and place it in the right place. I dont mind dragging the articles into the cartergories by hand by i need a way to tell what catergory it was in! Any ideas on this would great! CheersJames

See if this community.getk2.org/forum/topics/k2-csv-import-tool
will be helpfull. I think it lets you choose the category from the csv file

Cheers for the reply..

This is the tool ive purchased! haha It lets you choose one catergory to import the content into IE;

Home
Magazine ( this catergory )
photos
contact
shop

But i need to split it up so it imports like this:

Home
Magazine
Issues one (some articles go in here)
Issue two (some more here)
issue three (and some more here)

but i cant get it to place the articles into the correct catergories using a value in the csv file issue 01 catergory,value= 01 in the csv.

any ideas?

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it also does k2, but im not sure that anything will change things on the fly. I think you have to have the categories set up in your csv and then the import pushes them in to that category if it exists or creates a new category if it doesnt and then adds it.